Leopold Schmalhorst

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Leopold Schmalhorst (born January 14, 1886 in Herford ; † unknown) was a German architect who worked from Düsseldorf . As settlement commissioner , Gauwohnungskommissar , Empire homestead ladder and politicians he pursued Nazi goals. Participated with other architects, among other things, in the design of the Reich Exhibition Schaffendes Volk .

Party membership and professional career

Leopold Schmalhorst was a city councilor in Düsseldorf for the NSDAP from March 12, 1933 to December 15, 1933.

At the suggestion of Gauleiter Friedrich Karl Florian , Schmalhorst became head of the housing and settlement office in the Düsseldorf government in 1931 . In 1938 Florian removed him from the office of Gauamtsleiter. Since April 1933, Schmalhorst was settlement commissioner for the Düsseldorf area, a function that he exercised full-time from 1942. From 1943 to 1945 he was district housing commissioner.

His efforts to become active in the public sector after the end of the war failed because of his National Socialist activities and his behavior as a "presumptuous and tactless, self-confident National Socialist".

Buildings and designs

Schmalhorst and Mohr architecture firm

→ Schmalhorst and Mohr architects

  • 1925–1926: Apartment building Van-Douven-Straße 6 in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk together with Richard van Broe (c) k

Publications

  • Together with Heinz Neu: (Dialogue): Settlement, popular recovery, popular increase. In: Settlement and Economy. Notebook. 5, 1934, pp. 200-202.
  • The workers' settlement at the Reich exhibition "Schaffendes Volk" Düsseldorf 1937. In: The German Heimstättensiedler. Volume 5, 1937, pp. 126-130.
  • The Wilhelm Gustloff Settlement. In: Maiwald. 1939, Volume I, pp. 101-104.

literature

  • Matthias Strucken: German Art. Düsseldorf 1928.
  • Stefanie Schäfers: From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The exhibition "Schaffendes Volk" Düsseldorf 1937. 2001, ISBN 3-7700-3045-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The conception of the exhibition 'Schaffendes Volk' / 4 von 5 ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 27, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schaffendesvolk.sellerie.de
  2. ↑ a b From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The Great Imperial Exhibition “Creative People”. Düsseldorf 1937 - Directory of persons ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 23, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schaffendesvolk.sellerie.de
  3. ^ City councilor for the NSDAP in Düsseldorf from March 12, 1933 to December 15, 1933 , (PDF, 199 kB) accessed on February 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ Entry in the list of monuments of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation, accessed on February 27, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Schmalhorst, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, settlement commissioner, district housing commissioner, Reichsheimstätten manager and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford
DATE OF DEATH 20th century