Gustav Ernst box maker

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Gustav Ernst Kistenmacher (* 1895 ; † 1986 ) was a German architect who mainly worked in Heilbronn.

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Kistenmacher studied architecture with Paul Bonatz and Paul Schmitthenner at the Technical University of Stuttgart . During his studies, he became in 1918 member of the Stuttgart singers shaft Schwaben . After completing his studies, he worked in Frankfurt am Main in 1918 and undertook study trips to England and the Netherlands.

The submission by Gustav Kistenmacher, Siegfried Sprengler and Hermann Wahl won first prize in a competition organized by the city of Heilbronn for social housing. This formed the basis for the development of the Kreuzgrundsiedlung . He later became a government master builder in Heilbronn. In addition to his government contracts, he built the Safe'sche Pharmacy there in 1950, the Aukirche in 1957, the Commerzbank in 1963 and the Heilbronner Voice administration building on the Allee .

Publications (selection)

  • Considerations on steel construction, (article) 1931
  • Prefabricated houses: assembly methods, industrial construction, 1950
  • The American Home: Rationalization, Prefabrication, Financing, 1964

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 . P. 121
  2. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 234.
personal data
SURNAME Box maker, Gustav Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
DATE OF DEATH 1986