Klaus Reese

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Klaus Reese (born March 17, 1903 in Düsseldorf ; † April 20, 1945 ) was a German architect .

Life

Klaus Reese first studied in Munich , then at the Technical University of Aachen . He completed his studies with the academic degree of a graduate engineer . Around 1933 he started his own business, presumably in a studio with the architect Heinz Thoma . In 1936 he had his studio at Wildenbruchstrasse 78 in Düsseldorf- Oberkassel .

For the Reich Exhibition of Creative People , Reese designed the “Building Industry” hall, in which achievements of the German building industry were presented. A part of the settlement plans of the Empire Exhibition Working People was the Schlageter settlement , today's settlement Golzheim in Düsseldorf district of Golzheim . The overall urban planning concept, which consisted of parks and green axes (part of which is today's Nordpark ), a generous expansion of streets (especially Kaiserswerther Straße as a main thoroughfare) and model settlements, the city and the district administration of Düsseldorf named Schlageterstadt , after the National Socialist one Activist Albert Leo Schlageter , who was executed on May 26, 1923 on the Golzheimer Heide . The execution site, located on the edge of the Düsseldorf North Cemetery , was expanded as a National Socialist cult site and included in the planning. The overall concept, whose settlement plans were only partially implemented, also included an artists' settlement on today's Franz-Jürgens-Strasse. With a village-like character, this should correspond to the guidelines of the Gauheimstättenamt and thus to the urban-architectural models of National Socialism. In the artists' estate at the southern end of Schlageterstadt , the clients were free to choose their architects within the framework of the guidelines monitored by the overhead line. Klaus Reese built a few private houses there, as well as in Büderich and Neuss.

In 1937 Reese was commissioned to build the HJ home, which is now the administrative building of the city of Meerbusch on Dr.-Franz-Schütz-Platz. The municipalities were required by law to make land available for the construction of a home as part of a HJ home construction program and to pay for the construction and maintenance costs. The HJ district leader assigned an architect to the community who was bound in planning and execution to the specifications of the working committee of the Reich Youth Leadership of the NSDAP . In 1936 the property on Dorfstrasse, at that time Adolf-Hitler-Strasse, was bought by the municipality and the architect Klaus Reese commissioned with the construction of the home, which was inaugurated in 1938. In 1939 the elongated brick building was given the name "Hermann-Göring-Heim".

In 1939 Reese was appointed regional director of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and was commissioned to plan German schools in Hungary during the Second World War . Shortly before the end of the war, Klaus Reese fell; he has been missing since April 20, 1945.

Houses in Schlageterstadt, 1937

House Franz-Juergens-Strasse 9
  • Künstlerhaus for the garden architect Walter Meusel (client was the city of Düsseldorf), Franz-Jürgens-Straße 9 (1936: Sodenstraße; 1937 to 1945: Ernst-Schwarz-Straße)
  • Private home of Clemens Thorne, Erwin-von-Witzleben-Strasse No. 17 (1936: Peters-Strasse; from 1937 to 1945: Houston-Stewart-Chamberlain-Strasse)
  • Private house of the chemist (and former naval officer as well as interns of Richard Willstätter ) Helmut Firgau (* 1894 - 7 July 1962), Leo-Statz-Straße 6 (1936: Solfstraße; 1937 to 1945: Hans-Eric-Rickmers-Straße)
  • Private house of Agnes Kaulhausen, Leo-Statz-Straße 8
  • Private home of the principal studies director Hans Ruelen, Leo-Statz-Straße 12

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Reese Dipl.-Ing. and architect, Markgrafenstrasse 66, Düsseldorf , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1934
  2. ^ Entry on Klaus Reese in the historical register of architects "archthek" , accessed on October 8, 2015
  3. ↑ Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Reese , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1936
  4. ↑ Dr. Weingarten: Klaus Reese, Halle Bauwesen. , in Deutsche Bauzeitung, May 1937, pp. 63 to 64
  5. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung, January 1938, Neue Eigenheime von Klaus Reese, pp. 1 to 7
  6. ↑ Administration building on Dr.-Franz-Schütz-Platz , on the Meerbusch Memorial Gallery, accessed on October 9, 2015
  7. ↑ Entry text for the list of monuments for the former HJ home, Meerbusch-Büderich
  8. ↑ The architect Klaus Reese made his reference to Büderich mayor Hans Daniels, who appeared in uniform, at the opening of the Hitler Youth Home on October 16, 1938 on Adolf-Hitler-Platz in Büderich. , Martin Röse: What was left of the “Third Reich” on rp-online on May 8, 2015, accessed on October 9, 2015
  9. ↑ Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Reese , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1940, NSDAP offices (Reich, state and city authorities).
  10. ↑ Klaus Reese in the Architects Directory ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / schaffendesvolk.sellerie.de
  11. ^ Building for art, culture, science and sport, Franz-Jürgens-Str. 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 ( memento from September 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), in the monument list city of Düsseldorf
  12. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch , Hans Rudolf Berndorff : That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 290 (Firgau was one of Willstätter's supporters after he resigned from his offices in 1924 due to anti-Semitic incidents).
personal data
SURNAME Reese, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1945