Grete Schroeder-Zimmermann
Grete Schroeder-Zimmermann (* December 12, 1887 in Ribnitz , Mecklenburg-Schwerin , † 1955 in Berlin ) was a German architect of the first generation of women architects in Germany in the interwar period. After the Second World War she worked as a lecturer at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin .
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Grete Zimmermann was born as the daughter of master bricklayer and carpenter Felix Zimmermann and his wife Olga Zimmermann. Torkuhl, who came from a patrician family in Lübeck , was born. She attended the municipal high school for girls in Görlitz and worked from 1905 to 1906 in her father's construction business in Steinau an der Oder .
From 1906 to 1909 Grete Zimmermann attended the Academy for Arts and Crafts in Breslau , where she was in Hans Poelzig's architecture class . She then worked as an architect in his private studio (1909–1914). From 1911 to 1912 Zimmermann worked as an architect on various building projects by Poelzig, such as the chemical factory in Luboń near Posen , on residential and commercial buildings in Breslau (1913) or the buildings of the Roman mine near Rybnik (1914–1915). In 1913 she took part in a competition with the architect R. Schweder to design the market square in the garden city of Carlowitz in Breslau and was involved in the designs for the competition for the Royal Opera House in Berlin . In 1914 she married the architect Reinhold Rudolph Schroeder from Breslau. As an employee in the structural engineering department of the Wroclaw City Council, she was responsible for the processing of cemetery facilities and the architectural design of two Wroclaw bridges.
In 1917 Grete Schroeder-Zimmermann came to Dresden , where she worked on building school buildings, fire stations and the main fire station under city building officer Hans Poelzig. In 1919, as a married woman, she fell victim to the double-income decree and had to give up her job. From 1919 to 1925 she worked as a private architect and was the head of the design and drawing department of a Wroclaw architecture studio for interior fittings. In 1923 Reinhold Schroeder divorced.
From 1925 to 1930 she studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin and in 1930 became an assistant at the chair for building history at this university. She carried out this activity until 1940. From 1940 to 1941 she was employed as an architect at the regional finance president in Berlin and from 1941 to 1944 at the Prussian building and finance department in Berlin. In 1945 they fled with their daughter and grandson.
After the war she was a lecturer at the Berlin School of Fine Arts from 1945–1955 .
The estate of Grete Schroeder-Zimmermann, which reveals the influence of Hans Poelzig, contains archival material, books, magazines and drawings as well as photographs that document Hans Poelzig's previously unknown early building projects from his time in Wroclaw. Five sketches by her teacher have also been preserved.
Memberships
- 1930 member of the Architects and Engineers Association in Berlin
- 1933 member of the Association of German Architects and Engineers
- 1933 member of the National Socialist factory cell organization
- 1934 member of the National Socialist teachers' association
- 1935 member of the Association of German Architects
literature
- Kerstin Dörhöfer: pioneers in architecture. Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-8030-0639-4 .
Web links
- www.berlinischegalerie.de , bequests and work complexes, Grete Schroeder-Zimmermann
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kerstin Dörhöfer: Pioneers in architecture. A building history of the modern age. Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-8030-0639-2 .
- ↑ www.berlinischegalerie.de , bequests and complexes of works, Grete Schroeder-Zimmermann
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schroeder-Zimmermann, Grete |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carpenter, Grete |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ribnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1955 |
| Place of death | Berlin |