Kurt Feyerabend

Kurt Gustav Eduard Feyerabend (born November 5, 1885 in Danzig ; † January 19, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German architect.

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Kurt Feyerabend was a son of the Gdansk innkeeper Gustav Feyerabend (* January 5, 1855 - October 5, 1906) and his wife Franziska, née Eschenbach (* September 14, 1855, † August 24, 1920 in Danzig ). The family's ancestors came from West Prussia.

After graduating from high school, Feyerabend enrolled at the TH Danzig in the summer semester of 1905 . On October 27, 1911, he passed the main diploma examination as an architect. He then worked as a graduate engineer, mostly in Gdansk. He then entered the service of the Prussian state to become a senior construction officer. He began training as a government building supervisor and had to interrupt it from November 1, 1911 to October 31, 1912 due to military service.

On August 3, 1914, Feyerabend married Frida Skibbe (born November 28, 1889 in Königsberg ; † November 20, 1965 in Berlin-Friedenau ), with whom he had two sons and two daughters. During the First World War he did military service as a lieutenant in the reserve. On September 9, 1914, he suffered serious injuries near Gerdauen . Afterwards he could no longer be used at the front. Instead he worked as a grave officer in Petrikau.

After the end of the war, Feyerabend passed the state examination as a government master builder on November 22, 1919 and worked as such for the Danzig government from mid-December 1919 to early 1920. On June 15, 1920 he was assigned a position at the Prussian State Building Authority I in Marburg . At the university building department he got a comprehensive impression of the diverse projects in the field of higher education and was particularly concerned with the design and construction of a new dermatology clinic at the university.

On February 26, 1924 Feyerabend moved to the Prussian State Building Authority I in Kiel. From 1924 to 1927, in the university building department there, he mostly worked on designs for the renovation and extension of the former naval hospital, from which the university's medical clinic emerged. He also accompanied the construction work. The measures cost 1.5 million Reichsmarks, which was quite a large amount for the time. The premises were released for use in September 1928 and after a short time proved to be very useful.

On February 16, 1925, Feyerabend was promoted to government building officer. On April 1, he took over as successor to Georg Lohr, his seat on the building authority. During this time, the university buildings, especially those of the medical faculty, were significantly expanded under his leadership. These included the medical clinic, the ear, nose and throat clinic, the dermatology clinic, the children's clinic, the anthropological institute, the institute for physicochemical medicine, the zoological institute, the pharmaceutical institute, the institute for physical exercise and the university's sports field with its tribune. In addition to the newly built educational academy, there was also major work at the Prussian experimental and research institute for dairy farming.

In particular, the expansion and conversion measures required very skilful planning and implementation. Feyerabend knew the special tasks of the institutes and clinics well and showed himself to be a flexible negotiator. Also because of his amiable nature, he was considered a particularly suitable building authority manager who left a completed task in Kiel.

On April 15, 1936, Feyerabend was appointed head of the Prussian building and finance department in Berlin. On August 13, 1936 he became a government and building officer. A little later he got health problems due to the injuries sustained during the First World War.

literature

• Rudolf Jaeger: Feyerabend, Kurt . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, pp. 107-109