Kurt Piepenschneider

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Kurt Piepenschneider (born before 1901 in Hanover ; died 1956 ) was a German architect and building director for the city of Braunschweig .

Life

Kurt Piepenschneider studied at the Technical University of Braunschweig . On August 7, 1929, he received his doctorate degree on the subject of “Board cladding on half-timbered buildings in the Harz Mountains and other northern pre-Harz region” with a dissertation . PhD . In 1932 he wrote the article on Max Osterloh in Volume 26 of the General Lexicon of Fine Artists . On April 1, 1936, he was appointed senior building officer and head of the building construction department in Braunschweig. His predecessor Hans Bernhard Reichow was now in charge of the building police department. As a senior building officer, for example, he designed the air raid shelter on Madamenweg and other bunker systems for the city of Braunschweig, and later he was promoted to building director. Braunschweig had applied for the title of Gau capital during the National Socialist era, but was not awarded it, but a competition for the new construction of a huge building complex (the so-called "Verwaltungsforum Braunschweig", based on the Gauforen ) was called among six architects. In the minutes of the council from 1941 it says with regard to the planning for Braunschweig on June 9, 1941 under point 4:

“Competition on the new forum. [...] Senior building officer Dr. Piepenschneider stated that the Lord Mayor had advertised a closer competition on April 21, 1941 to set up a new forum and asked 6 well-known architects to take part in the competition. The guidelines for participation in this competition were created by the chief building officer Dr. Read out the beeper cutter. The President of the Reich Chamber of Culture has approved the competition. "

As an architect, he designed, among other things, the facades for the shopping street on the Schlosspassage (between Bohlweg and Münzstraße, into which department stores such as C&A , Flebbe, Weipert and Woolworth moved). On October 1, 1949, it was opened after a year of construction and was considered a sight in post-war Brunswick. During his term of office, the construction or expansion of some buildings at Braunschweig Airport fell . Piepenschneider was awarded 1st prize in an architectural competition on January 10, 1957. On May 21, 1958, the foundation stone was laid in Ratzeburg for the new building of the Lauenburg School of Academics , which was built according to his plans.

Publications

  • First trip to Italy. Scientific excursion by the architecture department of the Technical University of Braunschweig . In: Westermanns Monatshefte 1926, p. 646ff.
  • Board cladding on half-timbered buildings in the Harz and further northern pre-Harz region . Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig 1929, OCLC 71903943 (dissertation, typewritten, unprinted).
  • Osterloh, Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 80 .
  • Notable building projects in Braunschweig / The settlement in Lower Saxony 1936 and 1937. In: The National Socialist Community. Central sheet of the NSDAP for community politics. Lower Saxony edition, 6th year 1938.
  • A new type of home: “Quadruple homes” . In: German construction magazine . 1954, pp. 438-441.
  • with Ursula Braunholz-Schütze, Gerhard Kern, H. Schröter: Pedestrian areas in the city center. Competition for the city center in Northeim. In: Bauwelt . Issue 28, 1956, pp. 654-655.
  • with Kurt Stohrer: Extension of the district administration building in Helmstedt . In: German construction magazine. 1957, pp. 390-391.
  • with Ursula Schütze: Lauenburg School of Academics in Ratzeburg . In: Bauwelt. 1962, pp. 1855-1858.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Bücholdt: Register of Architects Philibert - Pokorny. In: Historical register of architects (with master builders, civil engineers, garden and landscape architects, traffic planners, building contractors, etc.). Retrieved November 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ City Chronicle Braunschweig. P. 2 ( braunschweig.de ).
  3. ^ Bunker in Braunschweig - The Madamenweg bunker. bunker.amaot.info, accessed November 19, 2018 .
  4. ^ Arne Keilmann: The architect Ferdinand Keilmann in the system change of the 20th century. ( Architektur-geschichte.de PDF, pp. 86–87, with an illustration of the design by Herbert Rimpl ).
  5. ↑ Norbert Jonscher: Schloßpassage relies on the 50s style . In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . March 24, 2008 ( braunschweiger-zeitung.de - only paid access).
  6. ↑ City of Ratzeburg - annual chronicle 1958 (PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Pie cutter, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planning director for the city of Braunschweig
DATE OF BIRTH 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1956