Klaus Flesche

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TEE train of the Deutsche Bundesbahn

Klaus Peter Flesche (born December 20, 1917 in Braunschweig ; † February 26, 1997 in Johannisberg , Rheingau) was a German architect and industrial designer .

Life

Klaus Flesche studied architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1938 to 1941 . From 1941 to 1945 he worked in various industrial companies. From 1946 to 1948 he ran an architecture office with a focus on residential and industrial buildings . From 1948 to 1951 he was a research assistant at the TU Braunschweig. In 1949 he received his doctorate with the topic " The Kemenaten of the City of Braunschweig ".

From 1951 until his retirement he was head of the industrial design department at Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG in Gustavsburg. Klaus Flesche was the designer of the famous TEE train of the Deutsche Bundesbahn from 1957. Other rail vehicles he designed were the DB series V 320 , the head shape of which was the model for all locomotives of the V-160 family , and the DB series VT 24 . Flesche also designed the first generation of vehicles for the Munich subway and the GTW 72 of the Wuppertal suspension railway , which was acquired in 1972 .

In 1964, examples of his work were shown at documenta III in Kassel in the Industrial Design department . In addition to the TEE train, these included the arched pipe bridge over the Askeröfjord that collapsed in 1980 , diesel trains, harbor cranes, trucks and buses from MAN.

Literature and Sources

  • documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture. Volume 2: hand drawings. Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics. Kassel / Cologne 1964.
  • Lecture: TEE design. in the German Museum of Technology in Berlin on November 9, 2007, about the TEE train of the Federal Railroad from 1957 and its designer Klaus Flesche.
  • Jens Reese, Udo Lindemann, Hartmut Seeger, Axel Thallemer, Hans Hermann Wetcke: The engineer and his designer - drafting technical products in the field of tension between construction and design - building up the design department at MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG. VDI book, Berlin Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-21173-0 .
  • Gottwaldt, Alfred B .: Remembering Klaus Flesche: a designer from MAN and his vehicles. in: Yearbook for Railway History. DGEG Medien, Hövelhof, ISSN  0340-4250 , Volume 38 (2006/07), pp. 62-71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Peter Flesche: Catalog of the library TU Braunschweig | The kemenaten of the city of Braunschweig. Dissertation, Braunschweig Technical University, 1949
personal data
SURNAME Flesche, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flesche, Klaus Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and industrial designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1997
Place of death Johannisberg , Rheingau