Karl Kohlbecker
Karl Kohlbecker (born January 17, 1906 in Gaggenau ; † February 12, 1982 in Gernsbach ; full name: Karl Anton Kohlbecker ) was a German architect and founder of the Kohlbecker architectural office in Gaggenau. Karl Kohlbecker is considered a pioneer of industrial construction in specialist circles. As a general planner, he enjoyed a high reputation. The style of his buildings is technical, simple and functional.
Life
Born as the only son of the brickworks owner and Gaggenau mayor Karl Kohlbecker, he studied from 1924/1925 at the Technical University of Munich , where he passed his main diploma examination in 1929. Already during his studies - while doing the office internship - he went on a common professional path with Egon Eiermann . A friendship developed that lasted for decades.
Despite the global economic crisis , Karl Kohlbecker founded his own office in 1930. Shortly before his 25th birthday, on January 11, 1931, he submitted his first planning application for a residential building. At the beginning of the 1930s he was commissioned with planning the Daimler-Benz plant in Gaggenau, the creation of a design office and a social building. In 1934 Karl Kohlbecker moved the main office to Berlin. The principal was the industry: Daimler-Benz factory in Marienfelde, Daimler-Benz large engine factory in Genshagen / Ludwigsfelde, Teves-Werke, Rautenbach Leichtmetall and others.
In December 1937 Kohlbecker, like the architect Emil Rudolf Mewes and the architects Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer , presented a design for the construction of the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg . Finally, the architects were commissioned to carry out the construction together. Kohlbecker and his office were responsible for the technical management and the overall construction management as well as the planning of the dispatch hall and the electrical foundry.
After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Karl Kohlbecker started again as a one-man office in his destroyed hometown Gaggenau . The reconstruction of his hometown, residential buildings, shops, industrial buildings, the town hall shaped his work from 1945 to the mid-1950s. In addition, there were orders from the French central administration with the construction of new administration buildings, schools, hotels, and hospital wards within the former French occupation zone , as well as the master planning of the Daimler-Benz AG plants in Brazil and Argentina .
When the then Auto Union was commissioned to build a new automobile plant in Ingolstadt in 1958, a new phase began in the overall work of the industrial architect Karl Kohlbecker. Further orders from industry soon followed: Fichtel & Sachs, Pegulan, Dambach, Kühnle, Kopp and Kausch, Ski Kneissl and, in particular, construction contracts from Daimler-Benz AG in Sindelfingen, Mannheim and Wörth.
Karl Kohlbecker died on February 12, 1982 in Gernsbach. The office was continued by his son Christoph Kohlbecker and currently by his sons Matthias and Florian.
gallery
House of Cleanliness in Gaggenau, 1934
Model of the Teweswerke Berlin, 1934
Daimler-Benz AG Ludwigsfelde, 1934
Ludwigsfelde housing estate, 1934
US ARMY COD, factory rebuilt, 1952
Lyceum Baden-Baden , 1952
French civil administration under construction, Baden-Baden, 1954
French civil administration Baden-Baden, 1954
Model of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Argentina, 1956
Model of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Brazil, 1956
Kneissl ski factory Kufstein, 1956/1969
Gaggenau Town Hall, 1957
Mercedes-Benz foundry Mannheim, 1960
Daimler-Benz AG, Sindelfingen plant, 1959
Daimler-Benz AG administration in Gaggenau, 1961
Kurhaus Forbach , 1961/62
Goethe-Gymnasium Gaggenau, 1961
Daimler-Benz plant in Wörth , 1963
House in Baden-Baden, 1965
Work (selection)
1930s and 1940s
- 1934: Housing estate in Berlin-Ludwigsfelde
- 1934/1935: Teves works in Berlin
- 1936: Rautenbach Leichtmetall, Wernigerode
- 1939: New construction of a passenger car plant including the entire infrastructure at Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg
1950s
- 1952: Reconstruction of a US Army facility
- 1952: Lyceum Baden-Baden
- 1954: Administrative building of the French civil administration, Baden-Baden
- 1956: Daimler-Benz plants in Argentina and São Paulo (Brazil)
- 1956/1969: Kneissl ski factory, Kufstein
- 1957: Gaggenau Town Hall, Gaggenau
- from 1959 (to 1974): expansion and construction of a passenger car plant in Sindelfingen including the entire infrastructure for Daimler-Benz AG
- 1958–1963: General development plan and construction of a new car assembly plant including the infrastructure for Auto Union AG, Ingolstadt
1960s
- 1960: Daimler-Benz foundry, Mannheim
- 1961: Daimler-Benz administration, Gaggenau
- 1961: Goethe-Gymnasium, Gaggenau
- 1961/1962: Kurhaus Forbach
- from 1963 (to 1974): New construction of a truck assembly plant in Wörth including the entire infrastructure for Daimler-Benz AG
- 1963: Steinbach elementary school, Steinbach community
- 1964: Gernsbach high school
- 1965: New construction of a residential building in Baden-Baden
- 1968–1972: New construction of the Mann Wertkauf and Mann Mobilia shopping centers in Karlsruhe, Freiburg and Wiesbaden
- 1969: Catholic Church St. Josef with kindergarten in Gaggenau, Wiesenweg
1970s
- 1972: New construction and expansion of the plant for the production of traffic signs and guidance systems for Adolf Dambach GmbH, Gaggenau
literature
- Industrial building pioneer. In: industrieBAU 2006, No. 2, p. 11 (article on the 100th birthday of Karl Kohlbecker)
- 100 years of Karl Kohlbecker. In: Sindelfinger Zeitung of January 21, 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Mommsen, Manfred Grieger: The Volkswagen factory and its workers in the Third Reich , p. 253
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kohlbecker, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kohlbecker, Karl Anton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gaggenau |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1982 |
| Place of death | Gernsbach |