Leopold Sautter

Leopold Sautter (born May 25, 1897 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 7, 1979 in Karlsruhe ) was a German architect who was particularly known as a specialist in the fields of thermal insulation and soundproofing in building construction .

Training and first job

Sautter first attended the Wöhler Realgymnasium in Frankfurt and completed in 1916, the school-leaving examination . Due to a serious knee injury, he had been severely disabled from the age of 7 and was thus exempt from military service. After graduating from high school, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt until the main diploma examination (first state examination) in 1923 . His legal clerkship as a government building manager lasted until 1926 , including 1½ years in the Darmstadt district building authority , one year in Kurt Friedenberg's architecture office in Kronberg im Taunus and the last six months at the Hessian Ministry of Finance in Darmstadt. After passing the second state examination, he was appointed government architect ( assessor ) in 1926.

Scientific work

From October 1926 to July he was structural engineering advisor to the Torfoleum-Werke Eduard Dyckerhoff in Poggenhagen near Hanover and at the same time began writing and lecturing on building science issues, especially health technology in the building industry. In this context he became head of the permanent Bauwelt model show from August 1929. From April he also took over the editorial management of the Bauwelt for all questions of construction technology and professional education.

After the National Socialists came to power, he took on several voluntary activities:

• from 1935: Reich building advisor of the German Youth Hostel Association on the staff of the Reich Youth Leadership and editor of the specialist book central editing department in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and at the DAF in connection with the main office for literature ( Rosenberg Office ), with the Reich Propaganda Office of the NSDAP and the Reich Chamber of Commerce for ideological and technical matters Examination of books from the entire field of construction, in particular building ground sciences and timber construction
• from 1936: Representative of the regional culture warden Gau Berlin, regional manager for fine arts Heinz Lederer, for the technical-scientific training of the architects in Berlin
• Lecturer at the main office of literature at the Führer’s representative for the supervision of the entire intellectual and ideological training and education of the NSDAP ( Rosenberg Office ) to examine the ideological attitude and artistic or professional performance in the following areas: books on architecture and related areas, art and construction -Magazines, poetry, narrative literature
• Representative of the regional culture warden Gau Berlin, regional director for fine arts Heinz Lederer, for the district VI of the Gaues Berlin for the artistic design of celebrations of the NSDAP within the district
• from 1939 commissioner of the regional culture warden Gau Berlin, country manager for fine arts Heinz Lederer, for the district VI of the Gaues Berlin for questions of the fine arts.

From January 1, 1942, Sautter changed jobs and became an employee of the Economic Research Society, during the same year deputy head of department B - "Typing and Standardization " (from 1944 department V.) of the German Academy for Housing eV (DAW) at Head of Department Prof. Dr. Hans Spiegel . Sautter's field of work remained sound and heat insulation in building construction, and he was also significantly involved in the development of the makeshift home of the German Housing Fund . From November 1944 he was commissioned to set up a building physics laboratory within DAW as Department VII.

After the Second World War, Sautter initially stayed in Berlin; For the “Constructa” building exhibition in Hanover in 1951, he planned the “ABC of Building” exhibition hall there. From March 1952 he was given a teaching position at the Technical University of Hanover for six months , but from autumn of that year he took over the management of the construction and housing advice department of the Baden-Württemberg State Trade Office in Stuttgart . Until his retirement he was a lecturer at the Technical University of Stuttgart for eight years and in October 1957 received an invitation to give guest lectures at the Technical Faculty of the University of Sarajevo , in particular on the subjects of "sound, heat and moisture protection" and "furnishing kitchens and Baths ". Furthermore, in several summers of the 1960s in Ankara, he worked on the thermal insulation regulations of Turkey . After his retirement , Sautter continued to work as a specialist advisor and author.

Fonts (selection)

• Thermal and sound insulation in building construction. (extended Reprint from doctrine of the new building of Eduard Jobst Siedler , supplemented by examples of calculation of thermal insulation and panels to the insulation materials) Bauwelt-Verlag, Berlin 1933rd
• Thermal protection and moisture protection in building construction. Lipfert, Berlin 1948.
• Lime sand hollow blocks. Bauverlag, Wiesbaden 1952.
• The big ABC of building. (2 volumes: building materials / components) 1953.
• Sound insulation in residential construction. Bauwelt-Verlag, Berlin 1953.
• The full thermal protection. An important prerequisite for economical heating. Vulkan-Verlag, Essen 1963.

Web links

• Leopold Sautter at filmportal.de
• Springerlink.de
• akbw.de
• impulsprogramm.de (PDF; 2.0 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karlsruhe death register, 1979, entry No. 1304
2. ↑ Hans Jürgen Meinik: The Ateliergemeinschaft Klosterstraße within the National Socialist art and cultural policy . In: Akademie der Künste (Ed.): Exhibition catalog. Atelier community at Klosterstrasse Berlin 1933-1945 . Artist in the time of National Socialism. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89468-134-9 , pp. 13-39 .