Kurt Diestel

Memorial plaque on Blasewitz town hall

Kurt Diestel (born February 15, 1862 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † April 18, 1946 in Dresden ) was a German architect and professor at the Technical University of Dresden .

Life

Diestel studied architecture at the Dresden Polytechnic in 1880. At the beginning of his career he worked in the architecture office of his teacher Karl Weißbach from 1883 and in his own studio in Dresden from 1896 to 1906. From 1907 to 1927 Diestel taught as full professor for building form theory and director of the collections for building form theory and architectural drawing at the TH Dresden. In his last years at the TH Dresden he was also a professor for building regulations. Rolf Göpfert was one of Diestel's students at the TH Dresden .

He carried the (Saxon) honorary title Privy Councilor

buildings

• 1896–1897: Villa Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer 92 in Blasewitz
• 1901–1902: Commercial building for the Agricultural Credit Association in Dresden, Prager Strasse 43 (destroyed in 1945)
• 1901–1902: Office and commercial building for the Agricultural Fire Insurance Cooperative in Dresden, Wiener Straße 13 / Prager Straße (opposite the main train station, with the “Kaiser-Café” restaurant, destroyed in 1945)
• 1901–1902: Old deer house in Meißen , Markt 2
• 1938/39: Glückstadt naval hospital

drafts

1902: Memorial plaque as a relief portrait of Johann Gottlieb Naumann , executed twice by the Blasewitz sculptor Bruno Fischer

Fonts

• German architecture at the end of the 19th century . Dresden 1907.
• Transitional phenomena in town planning and building regulations . Berlin 1915.
• Building regulations and development plan . Berlin 1917.

Literature and Sources

• Partial estate in the university archive of the TU Dresden
• Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 159.
• Kurt Dieter Prskawetz: Blasewitz school history, written down in 2006 on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the 63rd primary school in Dresden-Blasewitz. Dresden, 2006.

Web links

• Dieter Prskawetz: Blasewitz school history ( memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) written down in 1996 on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the 63rd elementary and middle school in Dresden-Blasewitz and the 145th anniversary of the completion of the first schoolhouse in the village of Blasewitz