Karl Wilhelm Ochs

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Karl Wilhelm Ochs (born February 29, 1896 in Frankfurt am Main , † June 30, 1988 in Berlin ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

After studying architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart , Ochs initially worked as a freelancer. From 1935 to 1947 he was chief architect at Brown, Boveri & Cie. in Mannheim, and later he still worked for the BBC.

From 1946 Karl Wilhelm Ochs was professor for design and building theory at the Technical University of Dresden . In 1953 he was appointed to the Technical University of Berlin .

His estate of 5600 hand drawings, pauses and photographs is in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin .

plant

Barkhausenbau of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in Dresden

For Brown, Boveri & Cie. Karl Wilhelm Ochs designed mainly industrial buildings. In the 1950s, buildings were built for the Technical Universities of Berlin and Dresden. Mention should be made here of the Barkhausen building in Dresden and the buildings of the Berlin Institute for General Electrical Engineering and Lighting Technology and the Institute for Electrical Machines, all of which are listed . Regarding the work of Karl Wilhelm Ochs, Hermann Heckmann , who was his scientific assistant in Dresden, said: "There was nothing sensational about his buildings, but they are masterpieces of simplicity and have outlasted fashion" . Later, especially in the 1960s, Ochs worked for the Evangelical Church. In addition to building churches and parish houses, he designed numerous conversions of existing buildings of the Evangelical Church.

  • Buildings (selection)
    • Technical University of Dresden, Barkhausenbau and Drude-Bau , new building 1950–1952
    • Technical University of Dresden, cafeteria extension 1951
    • Technical University of Berlin, Institute for High Voltage Technology and Institute for Electrical Machines, new building in 1959
    • Technical University of Berlin, Institute for general electrical engineering and lighting technology, new building 1959–1962
    • Protestant community center of the old town, Bad Oeynhausen, new building in 1962
    • Church of the Good Shepherd , Gütersloh, new building 1962/63
    • Holy Spirit Church , Bad Oeynhausen, new building in 1963
    • Protestant Auenkirche , Berlin, renovation in 1967
    • Stiftskirche, Evangelisches Johannesstift Berlin , renovation 1967/68
    • Parish hall of the village church Britz , Berlin, new building 1968
    • St. Peter and Paul on Nikolskoe , Berlin, renovation 1968/1970
    • Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Cross , Berlin, renovation 1970
    • St. Nikolai Church , Berlin-Spandau, renovation 1970
    • Community center of the Gatow village church, Berlin, new building 1971/1972

literature

  • Country houses by Karl Wilhelm Ochs, Frankfurt am Main . In: Wasmuths monthly books for architecture and urban development, vol. 14, 1930, pp. 177–181 ( digitized version ).
  • Factory buildings. Architect: Karl Wilhelm Ochs, Frankfurt am Main. In: Wasmuths monthly books for architecture and urban development, vol. 14, 1930, pp. 249-255 ( digitized ).
  • Ochs, Karl Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 504 .
  • Saxon Architects Foundation (ed.): Karl Wilhelm Ochs. Architect and artist , Dresden: Sandstein [2018], ISBN 978-3-95498-374-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of birth according to: Ochs, Karl Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 504 .
personal data
SURNAME Ochs, Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1988
Place of death Berlin