Kurt W. Leucht
Kurt Walter Leucht (born June 8, 1913 in Ellefeld , Vogtland , † September 4, 2001 in Dresden ) was a German architect , urban planner and university professor .
Life
Leucht was born in 1913 as the son of Martha Anna Leucht, who shortly after birth married the father of her child, the political anarchist and master builder Max Otto Hessler. After the First World War, the marriage was divorced again. From 1927 to 1931 he was trained at the art school in Plauen and then for two years at the building trade school in Glauchau .
He joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933, joined the Air Force the following year and was transferred to Ernst Sagebiel's office as an architect in 1936 . Leucht u. a. in planning for the Reich Ministry of Aviation and Tempelhof Airport . After a long formative stay in Italy , he studied at the Technical University of Berlin from 1939 to 1941 . The rest of the war, he worked as a construction site manager in Belarus and Italy.
Despite his previous history, he was appointed to the city planning office by Dresden's provisional mayor Walter Weidauer in 1945, which he formally took over in 1948. At the beginning of 1950 he caused a sensation with a speech on the occasion of the deliberations on a GDR building law and was then appointed by Lothar Bolz to the Ministry of Construction , where he built up his own urban planning department. In this capacity he took part in a trip to Moscow, the result of which was The 16 Principles of Town Planning ; these were based u. a. on a publication by Leucht. As a result, he took a leading position in planning the reconstruction of the East German cities. Between 1958 and 1962 he also had a teaching position at the Humboldt University in Berlin .
After 1955 there was a turn to industrial panel construction ; This was not supported by Leucht, which is why he returned to Dresden, where he was reinstated as a city planner in 1966. In 1969, however, Walter Ulbricht also dismissed him from this post.
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Buildings and designs
- 1952: Project planning for section D of Stalinallee Berlin
- 1952–1953: Urban development framework plan for Eisenhüttenstadt
- Planning of the residential areas between Rostock and Warnemünde
- 1963: urban planning for the city centers of Dresden, Suhl , Leipzig , Magdeburg
- 1966–1969: Planning of the rebuilding of Prager Strasse in Dresden and conception for the reconstruction of the Dresden Frauenkirche
Fonts
- The first new city in the GDR - planning bases and results from Stalinstadt VEB Verlag Technik, Berlin 1957
- together with Johannes Bronder: planning principles, planning results for the rebuilding of the city of Dresden.
Honors
(according to the estate directory of the SLUB Dresden)
- 1952: National Prize of the GDR, 1st class
- 1962: Schinkel Medal in bronze
- 1965: Medal of Merit of the GDR
- 1965: Gold Medal from the Ministry of Popular Education
- 1968: Medal "Builder of the City Center of Dresden"
- Honorary member of the Association of Architects of the GDR
literature
- Werner Durth , Jörn Düwel , Niels Gutschow : Architecture and urban planning of the GDR. The early years. Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939633-29-7 .
- Short biography for: Leucht, Kurt Walter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Overview of the contents of the estate of Kurt Walter Leucht in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/aufbau_west_ost/katlg09.htm
- ↑ http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-368994
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leucht, Kurt W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leucht, Kurt Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, urban planner and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ellefeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 4, 2001 |
| Place of death | Dresden |