Karl Gonser (architect)

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Karl Gonser (born January 21, 1902 in Stuttgart ; † October 22, 1979 there ) was a German architect .

Live and act

Gonser studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart and graduated in 1927. After working in Paul Bonatz's architectural office , he worked for Erich Mendelsohn in Berlin and then assistant to the urban planner Heinz Wetzel at the Technical University of Stuttgart. In 1937 he worked as a city planner in Cologne. Together with Hans Georg Oechler , he designed the Maria Christina estate in Heerlen .

In the post-war period he was city planning director and head of the city planning office in Stuttgart. In 1946, together with Hans Volkart , he drafted the reconstruction plan for Heilbronn's old town . In 1953 he became director of the Stuttgart State Building School and was state chairman of the Association of German Architects from 1953 to 1956 .

In 1934, Gonser married Elisabeth von Rossig , a graduate engineer with whom he had three children.

literature

  • Peter U. Quattländer: Heilbronn. Planning the reconstruction of the old town. Documentation for the exhibition of the City Planning Office 1994. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1994, ISBN 3-928990-45-4 (= Small series of publications of the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 28), p. 98.
  • Who is who? Volume 14, part 1. Verlag Schmidt-Römhild , 1962.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim J. Hennze: The long way from the reconstruction time to the present. In: Bernhard J. Lattner: Silent contemporary witnesses. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture. Edition Lattner, Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, p. 73 ( PDF ).
  2. ^ History. University of Technology, Stuttgart.
  3. ↑ Stuttgart Memorial Day Calendar: January 21, 1902. Stuttgart City Archives.
personal data
SURNAME Gonser, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1979
Place of death Stuttgart