Heinrich Goldemund

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Heinrich Goldemund (before 1914)

Heinrich Goldemund (born August 13, 1863 in Kojetín , Moravia , † March 2, 1947 in Salzburg , Austria ) was an Austrian architect , town planner and construction manager.

Life

Heinrich Goldemund, whose family originally came from Hotzenplotz , completed his school education in Vienna and studied at the Technical University of Vienna from 1886 to 1890 . In 1890 the young engineer joined the Vienna City Planning Department as a trainee and in 1893 became a construction assistant. As an expert and supporter of the Christian Social Party of Karl Lueger , the mayor from 1897 to 1910, he experienced a rapid career advancement, in 1908 became chief building officer and in 1913 finally city planning director of Vienna.

Until 1920 Goldemund worked under the mayors Richard Weiskirchner (a Christian Socialist) and Jakob Reumann (a Social Democrat) as town planning director. From March 4, 1919 to November 9, 1920, Goldemund was also a Christian Social Member of the Constituent National Assembly .

Goldemund's endeavor as a city planner was to plan the expansion of Vienna from 1890 to 1892 and 1904 to 1905 to include the suburbs and areas on the left bank of the Danube, taking into account the urban landscape and its scale. Among other things, he campaigned for the establishment of the Viennese green belt ( forest and meadow belt ), which was decided in 1905, and for the extension of the Türkenschanzpark made between 1908 and 1910 .

In view of the change in power in Vienna (an absolute majority in the SDAP in 1919 ) brought about by the realization of the general, equal suffrage for men and women at local level, Goldemund decided to switch to the private sector. From 1921 to 1945 he was general director of Universale Bau AG , a major company in the Austrian construction industry. During the Nazi era Goldemund belonged to the National Socialist Teachers' Association as well as NSV , DAF and NSBDT . In 1939 he described himself as a “supporter of the NSDAP ”, for whom he had spoken out before the upheaval . In the same year, the then Gauleiter Josef Bürckel made Goldemund an advisory board for the building industry in Vienna, also on the basis that Goldemund “was always close to the movement”.

In addition to his memoirs, he has left numerous publications.

Honors

The Vienna University of Technology awarded Goldemund an honorary doctorate (1917) and an honorary senator (1944). In 1958, the Goldemundweg in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district of Vienna) was named after him on the basis of a municipal council resolution of April 26, 1958.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Social advancement in the 19th century. Heinrich Goldemund and his family origins , accessed on November 7, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c Street names of Vienna since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 268f, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  3. ↑ Academic dignitaries of the Vienna University of Technology ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 24, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tuwien.ac.at
personal data
SURNAME Goldemund, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect, urban planner and construction manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Kojetín , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1947
Place of death Salzburg , Austria