Hans Schmidberger

Hans Schmidberger (born January 19, 1925 in Brombach near Lörrach ) is a German architect .

Life

Schmidberger grew up in Brombach near Lörrach in southern Baden . After graduating from high school , he enlisted in the Navy during World War II , where he was last employed on a mine clearing boat with the rank of lieutenant . After the end of the war and internment, he returned to his place of birth in 1946 and in the same year began studying architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe .

After two years, before the intermediate diploma, he had to interrupt his studies to earn money. He came into contact with the renowned architect Egon Eiermann , who, despite incomplete training and lack of practical experience, entrusted the young man with the construction management for a new plant for the Swiss chemical company CIBA in Wehr in southern Baden . CIBA then took over Schmidberger as an employee and entrusts him with the completion of the building.

Burda administration building from the 1950s (under monument protection)

Schmidberger then continued his studies, but was commissioned by Eiermann with the construction management of the new administration of the Burda publishing house in Offenburg in 1954/55. In 1955 he passed the diploma examination and for a short time took a job in an architecture office in his hometown, where he had meanwhile also married.

Not satisfied with the work in the provinces, he went to Stuttgart to the building construction administration of the state of Baden-Württemberg at the end of 1957 , mediated through his acquaintance with the designer Hans Theo ("Teddy") Baumann , who also worked for Eiermann . Here, in 1958, he was given the construction management for the state parliament building of the federal state, which had only been founded six years earlier, and which he completed by 1961. From 1961 to 1967 he was the site manager for the expansion of the Wilhelma zoological and botanical garden in Stuttgart (aquarium, predator house, elephant house, hippopotamus house, depot).

In 1966 Schmidberger switched to a teaching position in the architecture department of the State Engineering School Biberach an der Riss (later the University of Applied Sciences, today Biberach University ), where he was appointed professor in 1971 and taught until his retirement in 1987. As a part-time job , he also designed the first administration and teaching buildings for the college and was an expert at the Stuttgart Chamber of Commerce for architects' fees until 1995 .

Works

House of the Landtag (under monument protection)

Construction management:

• 1948–1952: CIBA's production and administration building (today used by a Novartis branch ) in Wehr (Baden) based on a design by Egon Eiermann
• 1954/55: Burda publishing house administration building , Offenburg, based on a design by Egon Eiermann
• 1958–1961: House of the Landtag , Stuttgart, based on a design by Horst Linde a . a.
• 1961–1967: several buildings as part of the expansion of Wilhelma , Stuttgart

Draft:

• First administration and teaching building of the FH Biberach, Karlstraße

Web links

• Gerd Mägerle: He built the state parliament in Stuttgart . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from January 19, 2015.
• Hans Schmidberger 90 years . In: Badische Zeitung of January 21, 2015.