Karl Franzius

Karl Franzius (1975)

Karl Franzius (born December 25, 1905 in Havelberg , † December 10, 1993 in Langen (near Bremerhaven) ) was a German architect.

biography

Franzius' parents are the water contractor Otto Franzius and his wife Thekla geb. Grahlmann (1877-1941). When Karl Franzius was born, his father, as the Prussian government master builder in the Rathenow hydraulic engineering inspection, was responsible for the expansion of the waterways to Berlin.

Karl Franzius attended a grammar school in Hanover from 1912 to 1924. After graduating from high school, he studied architecture at the University of Vienna , the TH Danzig , the TH Hannover and the TH Stuttgart . As a graduate engineer, he trained as a government architect in Gdansk and Hanover from 1930 to 1933 . In 1932 in Hanover he married Irmgard Pröll (1907–1986), a daughter of Arthur Pröll . He passed the state examination in Berlin in 1934.

After two years as an assistant at the TH Hanover, he worked at the Hanover City Extension Office in 1935. When the Reichsmarine became the Kriegsmarine , he moved to the naval construction office (department head new building) and to the naval directorate Wilhelmshaven. In 1944 he was entrusted with the planning and execution of underground industrial relocations in northern Italy (Venice). As a frigate captain in the naval building administration (and senior government building officer in the civil building administration) he was transferred to Berlin and Warnemünde in 1944 and entrusted with the reconstruction planning in Wilhelmshaven . In 1944/45 he was head of the Bremerhaven marine construction authority. From 1945 he ran the Franzius architecture office as a freelance architect ( BDA ) in Bremerhaven . He was instrumental in the reconstruction of the city. In 1964 the Franzius architectural office was founded by his eldest son, architect (BDA) Dipl.-Ing. Jan Niklas Franzius (1933–2013) reinforced. He had passed the diploma exam at the TH-Hannover and soon headed the office completely.

Bad Gastein (1953)

Karl Franzius was very sporty in his youth (gymnastics, water sports, skiing). He played the piano and painted watercolors well into old age, especially in Bad Gastein , the home and birthplace of his wife.

buildings

With his conservative architectural style, Franzius was in the tradition of north German brick construction. He was shaped by his Stuttgart teacher Paul Schmitthenner . The naval architectural style in Wilhelmshaven, which was influenced by the Stuttgart school , became decisive for all naval buildings. It is an architectural style made up of large, red-brown clinkered façade surfaces, broken up by white wooden windows framed by ashlar with cross-struts, arched entrance portals and arcades. Roofs were designed as pan-covered saddle or hip roofs, some with small dormers .

Wilhelmshaven

In 1937 Franzius designed the naval station building, the decoration of the cemetery of honor, the naval maintenance office, the ship engine inspection and the marine medical office as part 1 of the gigantic marine forum between Kieler Strasse, Bremer Strasse and Viktoria-Strasse and on both sides of Mozart-Strasse (today Wilhelmshaven Waterways and Shipping Office , Police Inspectorate Wilhelmshaven-Friesland etc.). His design for a monumental social building for the workers of the Wilhelmshaven navy shipyard in Fedderwardergroden (1938) was never realized. From 1939 to 1943 he worked at the naval directorate (settlement construction department) on the planning and execution of the new housing estates Voslapp , Fedderwardergroden and Cäciliengroden . He helped his naval architecture colleague Kurt Geisenhainer (1907–1992) with the planning of the Sanderbusch Hospital .

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  WSA Wilhelmshaven (Marine Forum)

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  Former Naval Forum

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  Police station Wilhelmshaven / Friesland

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  Back to St. Willehad

Bremerhaven

Franzius planned residential and church buildings, public buildings, industrial and hotel buildings and some villas. In 1954 he built the eight-storey, three-winged arcade house in Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße 122/126. The Mayor Smidt Memorial Church - the spiritual center of Mitte (Bremerhaven) - which was destroyed in the air raids on Wesermünde - was rebuilt by him from 1958. The optically and acoustically significant folding roof was already planned and designed by his son Jan Niklas Franzius. Father Franzius created the pastors' and parish house for the Mayor Smidt Memorial Church . In the fishing port (Bremerhaven) he built the “Wilhelms” fish meal factory, the “Fornell” industrial plant and the “Baumgarten” fish factory. He built a meeting and lecture hall for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 6), the legendary “Lehrke” restaurant on the south bank of the Geeste and the North Sea Hotel Naber on Theodor-Heuss-Platz.

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  Entire complex of the Great Church

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  Chamber extension of the IHK

Churches

After winning the competition, he built the Paulus Church and its parish hall in Blexen in 1964 (in a completely different architectural style) .

The remarkable new building of the Resurrection Church with parish hall and kindergarten in Surheide (1968) comes more from the son .

Others

The large hangar at Nordholz Air Base is from Franzius .

swell

• Ingo Sommer : 50 years of the Navy's main office.
• Ingo Sommer, in: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of October 11, 2008, Supplement No. 21 on Heimat by the Sea: The idea of ​​homeland security built in bricks: Why two large buildings are monuments .

Web links

Commons : Karl Franzius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Karl Franzius in Wilhelmshaven

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Franzius. In: arch INFORM .
2. ↑ Detective work in the city archive
3. ↑ Police in the center strengthens prevention (NWZ, April 12, 2013)
4. ↑ Yesterday and today (Wilhelmshavener Zeitung)
5. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
6. ↑ The Mayor Smidt Memorial Church in Bremerhaven
7. ↑ Dike SPIRIT
8. ↑ Blexen Church ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2016 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.