Eugen Hönig

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Eugen Hönig (May 1933)
Hönig bans the Jew Heinz Buchholz from working (1935)
Commercial building by the beautiful tower by Eugen Hönig and Karl Söldner with sculptures by Julius Seidler

Eugen Hönig (born March 9, 1873 in Kaiserslautern ; † June 24, 1945 ) was a German architect and until 1936 president of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts .

Life

Hönig was the son of a furniture manufacturer. After graduating from high school, he attended the Technical University of Munich from 1891 to 1895 . After completing his engineering degree, he initially worked independently with the architect Karl Söldner . In the period from 1896 to 1897 Hönig was a teacher at the building trade school in Augsburg and from 1906 to 1913 professor at the building school in Munich. At the same time, Hönig was chairman of the Munich Architects and Engineers Association (MAIV) from 1910 to 1912 . He built various commercial buildings in Munich.

In 1931 Hönig became a member of the ethnically -minded, anti-Semitic Kampfbund for German culture . After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he joined the 1933 Nazi one. On March 23, 1933 he was elected the last chairman of the All-German Association of German Architects (BDA) .

The Association of German Architects switched itself in line through Hönig and committed itself opportunistically to work on the work of “national construction”. With the decision of the National Socialist Reich government , the BDA was dissolved as an independent organization and incorporated into the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . On November 15, 1933, the BDA merged with several other associations in the professional association for architecture of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts , of which Hönig was president from November 1933. In 1936 he resigned from this office, but remained presidential councilor and imperial cultural senator.

On October 20, 1934, Hönig prohibited the then sixty-year-old Jewish painter and graphic artist Eugene Spiro from continuing to work, which resulted in the closure of Spiro's painting school. Spiro then went into exile in France.

After the death of the Reich President Paul von Hindenburg , in August 1934, Hönig was one of the signatories of the call by cultural workers for a " referendum " on the merger of the Reich President and Reich Chancellery. In the final phase of the Second World War , Hönig was included by Adolf Hitler in the God-gifted list of the most important architects, which saved him from being deployed in the war, including on the home front . Eugen Hönig died in June 1945.

literature

  • Uwe Schneider / Gert Gröning: Late honors for Eugen Hönig? In: The old city. Quarterly magazine for city history, urban sociology, etc. Monument preservation. Volume 25, Issue 2, 1998, pp. 174-181.
  • Werner Durth : German architects: Biographical entanglements 1900–1979. Braunschweig 1986.
  • Barbara Miller-Lane: Architecture and Politics in Germany 1918–1945. Cambridge, 1968.
  • Anna Teut: Architecture in the Third Reich 1933–1945. In: Bauwelt Fundamente 19, Ullstein, 1967, p. 95.

Web links

Commons : Eugen Hönig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 256.
  2. ↑ baunetz.de, BDA Informations, Neues zu Eugen Hönig, p. 38 (PDF), accessed on December 6, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.baunetz.de  
  3. ↑ baunetz.de, BDA Informations, Wer ist Eugen Hönig, p. 30 (PDF), accessed on December 6, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.baunetz.de  
  4. ↑ See Schneider / Gröning 1998, pp. 174ff.
  5. ↑ saaleck-werkstaetten.de, accessed on December 6, 2008
  6. ^ Association of German Architects, accessed on March 12, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Hönig, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and President of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1945