Johannes Borgwardt

Johannes Borgwardt (born December 28, 1885 Lütz, Güstrow district ( Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ); † unknown) was a German architect .

Life

After completing his apprenticeship as a bricklayer and passing his journeyman's examination, Borgwardt worked as a site manager. He was a student at the Baugewerkschule and guest student at the Institute of Technology (Berlin) Charlottenburg . From 1907 he was employed as an architect in the design department of the municipal building department in Rixdorf (old name of the Berlin district of Neukölln ), which was headed by the architect John Martens . After the architect Robert Friedrich Goetze resigned as the second head of the design department of the Neukölln Building Department in 1924, Johannes Borgwardt was his successor. Until 1942 he held this position as city architect in the Neukölln building department. Because of the Second World War , all construction projects came to a standstill and Borgwardt was appointed head of the card and accounting office in Neukölln Town Hall on May 20, 1942.

In the 1920s, Borgwardt was one of the representatives of New Building in Neukölln. In 1926 the medical department for women in Stadtbad Neukölln was expanded on the basis of his design, in 1927 he designed the (not preserved) single-storey kiosks on Karl-Marx-Strasse / Flughafenstrasse in Neukölln, and with his colleague Camillo Martinec , Borgwardt designed the protective hall, 1927 as an extension to the neo-Gothic chapel projected by Neukölln city planning officer Hermann Weigand on the Tempelhof park cemetery; 1927/1928 lavatory and changing room and the lounge hall in Volkspark Neukölln (Oderstraße); with Martinec 1928/1929 design of the double gymnasium with cinema for the school in Morusstraße in Neukölln; 1928 Design of the gym for the Lessing School in Thomasstrasse in Neukölln; 1930 Design of the service building for the hospital in Hasenheide (destroyed in World War II).

Borgwardt's fate after 1945 is still unknown.

literature

• District Office Neukölln of Berlin, Dept. Construction (Ed.): 100 years of building for Neukölln. A municipal building history. Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-00-015848-0 .