Hermann Leitenstorfer

Hermann Leitenstorfer (born November 7, 1886 in Würzburg , † November 5, 1972 in Munich ) was a German architect , construction clerk and university professor . With various designs for urban buildings and in his function as town planning officer, he was significantly involved in numerous buildings in Munich between 1920 and 1950. The urban skyscraper he planned was the first skyscraper in the city.

Life

Leitenstorfer was the son of a military doctor. From 1904 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich . After completing his studies, he worked from 1908 as an intern with Gabriel von Seidl on his designs for the Deutsches Museum . Later he supported Friedrich von Thiersch in his work for the extension of the Palais Bernheimer . Finally he returned to the Technical University of Munich in 1912, where he became the assistant to Theodor Fischer .

The first own projects came into being from 1918 after winning the architecture competition for the new construction of the parish church St. Martin in Moosach . He accompanied the implementation of his design in a simplified form in 1922 and 1923. From 1920 Leitenstorfer worked in the building construction department of the city of Munich, where he was promoted to head of Department I in 1928, succeeding Hans Grässel . During this time Leitenstorfer realized numerous urban buildings. According to his plans, the municipal loan office , the cemetery at Perlacher Forst (both in collaboration with Fritz Beblo ), the urn hall of the east cemetery and the extension of the Munich city museum were built .

He created his most important work with the urban high-rise in Munich, which was built between 1924 and 1929 on the southern edge of the historic old town. For the idea of ​​a common administrative building for all the city's technical offices, he designed a functional, twelve-storey building clad with bricks. The first skyscraper in Munich is today the last remaining testimony to the early days of modern architecture.

In 1947 Leitenstorfer resigned from the structural engineering department and was initially a town planning officer. A year later he accepted a teaching position at the Technical University of Munich , where he was appointed professor of design, sacred architecture and monument preservation in 1950 . In 1955 he retired. On November 5, 1972, shortly before the age of 86, Hermann Leitenstorfer died in Munich and was buried in the Munich North Cemetery.

Work (selection)

Old Technical Town Hall of the City of Munich

• Parish Church of St. Martin in Moosach (1922–1923)
• urban high-rise in Munich (1924–1929)
• Power plant south in Munich (1925–1930)
• Uppenborn 1 power plant in Moosburg an der Isar (1928–1930)
• Expansion of the St. Anna high school in Munich (1933)
• Municipal lending office in Munich (1929–1931)
• Cemetery at the Perlacher Forst in Munich (1929–1932)
• Extension of the Munich City Museum (1930–1931)
• St. Anastasia Chapel in the Waldfriedhof in Munich (1932)
• Urn hall at the Ostfriedhof in Munich (1932–1933)
• Expansion of the elementary school on Führichstrasse in Munich (1933)
• Elementary school on Ostpreußenstrasse in Englschalking (1934–1937)
• Reconstruction of the trade school on Pranckhstrasse in Munich (1949–1952)
• Facade design for the reconstruction of the New Town Hall in Munich (1950–1951)

Awards

• 1959: Bavarian Order of Merit

literature

• Hermann Leitenstorfer 1886–1972. In: Architekturschule München 1868–1993. Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7814-0350-5 , p. 213

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Leitenstorfer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Grave of Hermann Leitenstorfer ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at cemeteries in Munich . Retrieved December 26, 2013.