Ludwig Wagner-Speyer

Ludwig Wagner , called Ludwig Wagner-Speyer , (born January 24, 1882 in Germersheim , † March 4, 1939 in Mainz ) was a German architect , municipal building officer and university professor .

Life

Ludwig Wagner studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich , where he joined the Corps Rheno-Palatia in 1900 . He successfully completed his studies in August 1905. Ludwig Wagner worked in the tradition of moderate modernity. He worked in his Palatinate homeland, from 1914 as a town planning inspector in Chemnitz . In July 1918 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Charlottenburg . In 1918 he became a city planning officer and city councilor in Fürth . In the 1920s he worked as a city councilor and structural engineer in Nuremberg . From April 1928 to the summer of 1933 he taught as a professor of architecture in the architecture department of the Technical University of Darmstadt , and from 1930 to 1932 he was the dean of the architecture department.

In the aftermath of the so-called "Lieser affair" initiated by Karl Lieser , which led to the temporary closure of the Technical University of Darmstadt in spring 1933, Ludwig Wagner-Speyer was dismissed as professor in autumn 1933. On September 16, 1933, he became director of the Mainz School of Applied Arts . He died in March 1939 at the age of only 57.

buildings

• 1911–1912: Protestant church in Blieskastel
• 1922–1923: urban residential buildings in Nuremberg, Rothenburger Strasse / Beim Rochuskirchhof (partially preserved)
• from 1928: Settlement at the Nordbahnhof in Nuremberg
• 1929: Dr. Luppe Square in Nuremberg.

Fonts

• Basics of model-based building. Darmstadt, Wiesbaden 1910. (New edition 1923.)

literature

• Center for Industrial Culture Nuremberg (ed.): Architecture Nuremberg 1904–1994. 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Tümmel, Nuremberg 1994, ISBN 3-921590-21-3 .
• Melanie Hanel: Normality under exceptional conditions. The TH Darmstadt under National Socialism . Scientific Book Society , Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-534-26640-1 . (also dissertation , Technical University Darmstadt , 2013)
• Christa Wolf, Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt. Short biographies 1836–1945. Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1977, OCLC 611985164 , p. 219.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Wagner-Speyer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 113 , 307
2. ^ Homepage of the Blieskastel Parish Office , last accessed on January 26, 2012
3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 44, 1924, No. 7 (from February 13, 1924), p. 50 f.