Kurt Bruno Seeliger

Kurt Bruno Seeliger (born January 26, 1895 in Harwood, Australia ; † July 18, 1968 in Bad Harzburg ) was a German architect and construction clerk .

Career

Seeliger was born in the Australian city of Harwood, the son of a sugar manufacturer who emigrated to Australia in 1885. In 1905 the family moved to Braunschweig . After serving in the First World War , Seeliger studied architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1918 . After a time as the architect of the Saxon homestead Annaberg (around 1925), he switched to the Brunswick civil service as an assessor . He headed the building construction offices in Gandersheim and Blankenburg (Harz) .

In World War II he took part in the rank of captain . As a battery leader of the motorized observation department 13, he took part in the German invasion of Poland in 1939 . He took 96 photographs, which he put together in an annotated photo series. The photo collection was published in an online exhibition by the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Education Center. In 1945, he returned after a short captivity after Bad Harzburg back. From 1949 he worked again in the state building administration as a government building officer and head of the Wolfenbüttel building department . In this role, he was in charge of the new building for the Lower Saxony State Archives in Wolfenbüttel .

Individual evidence

1. ^ House of the Wannsee Conference. Retrieved October 2, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Detailed information on Seeliger's career up to the end of the Second World War can be found in his denazification file in the Lower Saxony State Archives : NLA 3Nds 92/1 No. 12814 (unpaginated, approx. 150 sheets).