Lothar Götz

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Lothar Götz (born July 11, 1925 in Karlsruhe ; † April 17, 2018 ) was a German architect , construction manager and university professor .

Life

Lothar Götz, one of the children of the graduate engineer Karl Götz and his wife Leonie Götz geb. Noltze, graduated from the Goethe-Realgymnasium Karlsruhe in 1943 . After returning from Soviet captivity , he obtained the Abitur for combatants at the University of Kiel in 1946 , whereupon he was able to study architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . In 1950 Götz graduated with honors from Otto Ernst Schweizer . From 1950 to 1953 he worked as the head of the construction department for Southwest Germany at BP Petrol and Petroleum AG .

He developed a swinging roof for BP petrol stations , with two clamped, conical box columns with girders supporting the cantilever beams in this construction. The roof was built from reinforced concrete or steel parts. One of the two supports contained a drain for the rainwater that collected on the roof, the other support the power lines for the lighting. In 2018, the magazine Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg published an article about the type of petrol stations of the post-war period, the author Peter Huber went into Götz's construction and stated: "So far, no listed object of this type has been discovered." According to Huber, the population is increasing in appreciation of the old gas station buildings and they are increasingly becoming the subject of monument preservation activities.

In 1953 Götz became a scientific assistant to Egon Eiermann at the Technical University of Karlsruhe ; an activity that he carried out until 1961. In 1963 Götz was appointed director of the Institute for Building Materials, Building Physics, Technical Expansion and Design at the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart (from 1967 University of Stuttgart). He held this position until his retirement in 1993.

From 1965 to 1993 Götz was a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for Building Physics of the Fraunhofer Society . From 1966 to 1970 he was first chairman of the German Werkbund Baden-Württemberg and from 1970 to 1988 a member of the research council at the Federal Ministry for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development . From 1981 to 1983 he was dean of the faculty for architecture and urban planning at the University of Stuttgart. From 1997 to 2002 he was the first chairman of the Egon Eiermann Society .

Until 1999 Götz ran his own architecture office, founded in 1967, in partnership with Klaus Unruh from 1970 to 1991 and with Mario Hägele from 1991 to 1999 .

He had seven children with his wife Hannelore († 2014). The biologist Magdalena Götz is his daughter.

buildings

St. Paul in Heidelberg-Boxberg
Waterways and Shipping Office and Water Police in Heidelberg
  • 1951: Opel-Fahr petrol station in Fulda
  • 1956–57: New construction of the butchers' purchasing and sales cooperative in Heidelberg
  • 1959–61: Nurse and staff building I at Heidelberg University
  • 1961: Ammann house in Heidelberg, Turnerstrasse 114d
  • 1964–66: Interior work on the Bruchsal Castle Church
  • 1967–68: Kindergarten and parish hall of the parish of St. Bartholomäus in (Heidelberg-) Wieblingen
  • 1965–72: Parish center St. Paul in Boxberg
  • 1965–67: Nurse and Staff Building II at Heidelberg University
  • 1972–74: Nurse and staff building III of the University of Heidelberg
  • 1977: Town center consisting of town hall, service center with shops and apartments, in Illingen
  • 1978–82: Town hall in Östringen
  • 1980–82: “Ipf-Treff” shopping center in Bopfingen
  • 1980–82: Fire department equipment store in Illingen
  • 1986–94: Service building for the Waterways and Shipping Office Heidelberg and the water police in Heidelberg
  • 2001–03: Reconstruction and renovation of the town hall in Edingen-Neckarhausen
  • 2004: Neckarterrasse in Edingen

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lothar Götz. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung / Stuttgarter Nachrichten. April 21, 2018. Retrieved April 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Götz, Lothar. In: Wer ist Wer ?: The German Who's Who . Volume 15, Arani, 1967, p. 569.
  3. ↑ Peter Huber: Tailor-made off the shelf. Types of gas stations of the post-war period. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , year 2018, issue 1, pp. 18–22, here p. 20 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Press release of the University of Stuttgart from January 8, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Götz, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, construction manager and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH 17th April 2018