Josef Kaiser (architect)

Josef Kaiser (born May 1, 1910 in Cilli , Austria-Hungary , today Slovenia ; † October 5, 1991 in Altenberg (Ore Mountains) ) was a German architect , urban planner and university professor .

Life

After studying at the German Technical University in Prague from 1929 to 1935, Kaiser worked in Berlin with Otto Kohtz and in Weimar . In 1938 he joined the NSDAP . From 1936 to 1941 he was employed by Julius Schulte-Frohlinde in the office of the German Labor Front . He then headed the floor plan planning department at the German Academy for Housing in Berlin-Buch until the end of the war .

After the end of the war and a serious illness in 1945, he completed a vocal training course at the Dresden Music Academy in 1946 . He then worked as a tenor in the Theater am Nollendorfplatz . In 1951 he was again active in the structural engineering field in the master workshop II of the German Building Academy. A steep career followed. The emperor, who joined the SED , became chief architect in Stalinstadt in 1952/1953 , where he was in charge of the planning of the residential complex II. From 1955 to 1958 he worked in the office of the chief architect of East Berlin, Hermann Henselmann . In 1962, Josef Kaiser headed the design collective for the second construction phase of Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin (ensemble between Strausberger Platz and Alexanderplatz ).

From 1969 to 1972 he was a professor at the Bauhaus University in Weimar . In 1973 he was chief architect and personal advisor to Erhardt Gißke, director of the construction management for special building projects in East Berlin .

The town hall center behind the Kino International ; the Interhotel Berolina stood there until 1996 .

plant

1951–1955: VEB Maxhütte cultural center

1952–1954: Residential Complex II Stalinstadt

1960: Design of the front facade of the State Council building

1964–1968: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the GDR

1967–1970: Centrum Warenhaus on Berlin's Alexanderplatz

Berlin , Karl-Marx-Allee :

1960–1962: Kino Kosmos
1961–1963: Kino International and Interhotel Berolina
1961–1964: Café Moscow

literature

Short biography for: Kaiser, Josef . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Josef Kaiser (architect). In: arch INFORM .
He evaded every cult article by Nikolaus Bernau on the occasion of his 100th birthday in the Berliner Zeitung on April 30, 2010

Individual evidence

↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 160.

personal data
SURNAME	Kaiser, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect, urban planner and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cilli
DATE OF DEATH	5th October 1991
Place of death	Altenberg (Ore Mountains)

[1] Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 160.