Hermann Buchert

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Hermann Anton Karl Buchert (born July 31, 1876 in Wegscheid near Passau ; † September 9, 1955 in Munich ) was a German architect , construction officer and university professor .

Life

Buchert was born in Wegscheid as the son of the royal district office assistant Karl Buchert and his wife Elisa Michel. He studied architecture and then embarked on a civil service career until he was appointed professor at the Technical University of Munich in 1914 .

As a government master builder ( assessor in public construction) he worked as an assistant at the Technical University of Munich and was then transferred to the state agricultural authority in Munich in 1908 as a building authority assessor . In 1914 he was appointed full professor for agricultural construction at the Technical University of Munich. King Ludwig III. confirmed in a 1917 decree “to entrust the full professor of agricultural construction in the architectural department of the Technical University of Munich Hermann Buchert with the lessons and with exercises also from 'building science' and to give him the designation as full professor of architecture and agricultural construction " .

On March 25, 1918, he married Frieda Martha Otto in St. Ludwig in Munich.

He joined a council of architects in 1919 and was elected head of the architecture department at the Technical University of Munich in the summer of 1919. In 1925 he was made an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1929 he received the honorary title of Privy Building Councilor from the Free State of Bavaria . In 1939 he retired as professor for architecture, building hygiene and agricultural construction at the Technical University . In 1949 he lived in the monastery inn in Attel near Wasserburg am Inn , and in 1955 at Leopoldstrasse 43 in Munich.

As a part-time job , Buchert edited the journal Bayerischer Heimatschutz of the Association for Folk Art and Folklore in Munich, wrote about the preservation of monuments , and gave slide shows about "The Farmhouse" and "Civil Architecture in Bavaria".

Buchert's written estate is kept in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich .

Buildings and designs

As a state construction intern in 1903, Buchert designed the building of the central vaccination facility in Munich on Mariahilfplatz , which today serves as a police station. He took part in numerous architecture competitions, his designs were often awarded prizes, but were never executed.

  • 1904: Competition design for the new building for the Bavarian Ministry of Transport in Munich (awarded 2nd prize, not executed)
  • 1906: Competition design for the new building of the Deutsches Museum in Munich (awarded one of two 2nd prizes, not executed)
  • 1907: Competition design for the reception building of the new Leipzig Central Station (not awarded)
  • 1908/1909: Competition draft for the new construction of the police building on Augustinerstock in Munich (purchased, not executed)
  • 1909: Teacher training institute and church in Pasing, Am Stadtpark 20
  • 1910: Preliminary draft for the construction of the Rupprecht secondary school in Munich, Albrechtstrasse
  • 1911: Competition design for the administration building of the Munich Reinsurance Company in Munich (purchased, not executed)
  • 1912: Office building for the protection team in Munich, Baaderstraße 9/9 a
  • 1917/1918: Competition design for the new building of a St. Magdalena church in Munich-Nymphenburg (awarded 2nd prize, not executed)
  • 1919–1925: Hydroelectric power station for Innwerk AG in Töging am Inn
  • 1920: Competition draft for the new building of a German Hygiene Museum and the State Natural Science Museums in Dresden (awarded 1st prize, not carried out)
  • 1924–1926: Felsenbad in Pottenstein (Upper Franconia) , Pegnitzer Strasse 35
  • 1924–1926: St. Korbinian parish church in Munich-Untersendling, Gotzinger Platz 2
  • 1925–1926: Reconstruction and extension of the parish church St. Sylvester in Munich-Schwabing, Biedersteiner Straße 1

  • Hydroelectric power station in Töging (aerial view)

  • Felsenbad Pottenstein (photo 1942)

  • St. Korbinian Church in Munich

  • Extension of the St. Sylvester Church in Munich-Schwabing

  • Extension of the St. Sylvester Church in Munich-Schwabing (interior view)

literature

  • Bayerischer Heimatschutz, monthly of the Association for Folk Art and Folklore in Munich , 4th year 1906, p. 121.
  • Buchert, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 341 .
  • Buchert, Hermann . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X , p. 670.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Church book Wegscheid 009 page 109, see online
  2. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 71 (from September 5, 1908) ( online ), p. 477.
  3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 37th year 1917, No. 89/90 (from November 3, 1917) ( online ), p. 537.
  4. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 39th year 1919, No. 62 (from July 30, 1919) ( online ), p. 367.
  5. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 49th year 1929, No. 2 (from January 9, 1929) ( online ), p. 32.
  6. ^ Reference to the estate in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich , accessed on June 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ Bavarian Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Munich and its buildings. Munich 1912, p. 476.
  8. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 24, 1904, No. 32 (from April 20, 1904) ( online ), p. 206.
  9. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 29, 1909, No. 55 (from July 10, 1909) ( online ), p. 376.
  10. ↑ Bavarian Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Munich and its buildings. Munich 1912, p. 567.
  11. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 31st year 1911
  12. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 38, 1918, No. 13 (from February 9, 1918) ( online ), p. 64.
  13. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 40, 1920, No. 99 (from December 11, 1920) ( online ), p. 623.
  14. ↑ Building history of the Felsenbad on the website of the Förderverein Felsenbad Pottenstein eV , accessed on July 11, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Buchert, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchert, Hermann Anton Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, construction officer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Wegscheid near Passau
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1955
Place of death Munich