Karl Schlueter (architect)

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Karl Schlueter (born November 12, 1907 in Essen-Heisingen , † October 29, 1993 in Aachen ; full name: Karl Eduard Philipp Schlueter ) was a German architect and construction clerk .

life and work

After studying architecture at the Technical University of Munich and the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH) as well as the subsequent legal clerkship , Schlüter worked as a government building assessor from 1938 and later with the rank of government building officer at the Aachen State Building Authority. Even before the Second World War, he drew up the first preliminary designs for buildings at the Aachen University of Technology. After the war, the university entrusted the entire reconstruction to Schlüter as an independent architect, before the state construction management of the Technical University of Aachen was reintegrated into the state civil engineering department with him as director.

In the following years, under his direction, countless buildings were built that still shape the image of RWTH Aachen in the inner city area. Good examples of the architecture of its time, now under are listed objects Large lecture hall / auditorium (1954) asked the Institute of Materials Science (1957-1960) and Institute of Electrical Communications and Radio Frequency Engineering (1954-1956).

The Audimax of the RWTH Aachen

Honors

1964: Honorary citizen of the RWTH Aachen

Fonts

  • The new construction of the lecture hall building. In: Minister for Reconstruction NRW (Ed.): TH Aachen, large lecture hall. (= Monographs of civil engineering , 13). Stuttgart 1957, pp. 15-34.

literature

  • Knut Stegmann: Architecture for research and teaching. The architect Karl Schlueter (1907–93). In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. Volume 29, 2012, Issue 3, ISSN  0177-2619 , pp. 125–132. ( Article as PDF document )
  • Volker Aschoff: Karl Schlüter and the reconstruction of the university. 1945 to 1964. In: Alma Mater Aquensis II (1964), pp. 71-75.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on large lecture hall building (Audimax) in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ Knut Stegmann: The Institute for Materials Science at RWTH Aachen. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. 26th year 2009, issue 1, pp. 23-27. ( Article as PDF document )
  3. ↑ Entry on the Institute for Electrical Communication Engineering and High Frequency Technology at RWTH Aachen University in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schlueter, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlueter, Karl Eduard Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Essen-Heisingen
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1993
Place of death Aachen