Jozef Sigalin
Józef Sigalin (born November 6, 1909 in Warsaw , † December 25, 1983 in Warsaw) was a Polish architect and urban planner .
Life
Sigalin came from a wealthy industrialist family of Jewish origin and, like his older brothers Roman and Grzegorz, studied architecture in Warsaw. The Sigalins family was murdered during the Second World War . He himself survived in the Soviet Union , where he worked as a civil engineer at the mine in Kremenez and a silk factory in what was then Leninabad . From May 1943 he served as a staff officer in a Polish unit of the Red Army ( 1st Warsaw Infantry Division ) and reached Lublin in 1944 . Here he was first appointed head of the Department for Reconstruction and on November 18, 1944, Deputy Head of the Office for Planning and Reconstruction at the Lublin Committee .
On January 21, 1945 he was sent to Warsaw to record war damage. After the liberation of Warsaw , Sigalin became deputy head of the Office for the Reconstruction of the Capital (BOS) , which was founded in February 1945 . From 1945 to 1952 he managed the largest Warsaw construction sites with Stanisław Jankowski , Jan Knothe and Zygmunt Stępiński : including the Poniatowski Bridge , the WZ-Trasse and the Ulica Marszałkowska with the MDM district . At the height of socialist realism , Sigalin was Warsaw's chief architect. At the suggestion of Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov , he supported the construction of the Warsaw Palace of Culture on July 3, 1951 . In 1956 he resigned from the office of chief architect. His further work as an architect, along with many other buildings, also resulted from the Trasa Starzyńskiego and Trasa Łazienkowska highways .
Web links
literature
- Niels Gutschow , Barbara Klain, Destruction and Utopia. Urban planning Warsaw 1939-1945 , Junius-Verlag, ISBN 3-88506-223-2 , Hamburg 1994, p. 164
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to Werner Huber, Warsaw - Phoenix from the ashes. An architectural city guide , Verlag Böhlau, ISBN 3-412-14105-4 , Cologne 2005, p. 109
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sigalin, Józef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish architect and urban planner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1983 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |