Karl Gallwitz (Ministerial Director)

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Karl Gallwitz (born January 29, 1882 in Pitschen , † July 26, 1945 in Berlin ) was Ministerial Director of the Construction Department of the Air Force Administration Office.

Life

From 1902 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt and became a member of the Darmstadt fraternity Frisia . He moved to the TU Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1904 and received his diploma there in 1906. In 1927 he designed the Army Weapons Office together with Gottlieb Lenzen , which was completed in 1929. A construction department was set up within the Air Force Administration Office and Gallwitz took over the management as the senior government building officer. The tasks of this department included the new construction and renovation of all airports. He was promoted to Ministerial Director in 1940. In 1944 Gallwitz retired and Franz Xaver Dorsch took over his position.

literature

  • Elke Dittrich: Ernst Sagebiel - Life and Work (1892-1970). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2005, pp. 55 ff. ISBN 3-936872-39-2 .
  • Karl Gallwitz: Air Base of the Air Force, in: Art in the German Reich , Issue B, Issue 4, 1940
  • Karl Friedrich Hildebrandt: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945 , Vol. 1 Osnabrück 1990, p. 34

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 136
personal data
SURNAME Gallwitz, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Ministerial Director in the Air Force Administration Office
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Pitching
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1945
Place of death Berlin