Manfred Berger (architect)

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Manfred Berger (born March 23, 1921 in Leipzig ; † November 16, 2009 ) was a German architect , monument conservator , university professor and specialist book author.

Life

The son of the official builder Alfred Berger attended the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig. After graduating from high school , Berger studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden . Here he learned u. a. with Werner Cords-Parchim , Oswin Hempel , Walter Henn , Georg Rüth and Otto Schubert . After completing his studies, Berger initially worked as a freelancer before returning to the Dresden University as a research associate at Cords-Parchim. There he was in 1959 with the dissertation village and village field mark Kasten. Their development history and their design for modern types of management. to Dr.-Ing. PhD.

In 1958 he took over the management of the Institute for Agricultural Building at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , which was incorporated into the production buildings department of the Leipzig University of Construction as part of the university reform in 1969 . In 1965 he was appointed professor and expanded the institute to include village and landscape design . After affiliation with the University of Civil Engineering, he held the new Chair of Industrial Construction until his retirement in 1981 .

In 1961, the standard work he had written, the construction manual for agricultural production cooperatives, was published . In addition to his teaching and research tasks, Berger worked as a monument conservationist for the preservation and protection of technical monuments, especially the history of traffic and production, with a focus on railway high-rise and bridge construction. As part of this activity, his four-volume standard work on historical train station buildings in Germany was created.

Manfred Berger lived in Kösser , where he made great contributions to the maintenance of the hunting lodge there. For more than 65 years he has dealt with this baroque monument and its renovation.

Publications (selection)

  • Construction manual for agricultural production cooperatives . Publishing house for construction, Berlin 1961.
  • Historic station buildings. Volume I Saxony, Prussia, Mecklenburg, Thuringia. transpress publishing house for transport, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-344-00066-7 .
  • Historic station buildings. Volume II Braunschweig, Hanover, Prussia, Bremen, Hamburg, Oldenburg, Schleswig-Holstein. transpress publishing house for traffic, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-344-00067-5 .
  • Historic station buildings. Volume III Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Palatinate, Nassau, Hesse. transpress publishing house for traffic, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-344-00267-8 .
  • Historic station buildings. Volume IV Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia, Posen, West Prussia, East Prussia. Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71029-X .
  • Central station Leipzig / history, architecture, technology. transpress, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-344-00474-3 .
  • The Muldenthal Railway . transpress Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70907-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Senior birthdays . In: Official Gazette of the community of Großbothen, No. 3 of March 20, 2009, p. 4  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.grossbothen.de  
  2. ↑ a b Obituary Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Manfred Berger. In: Official Gazette of the community of Großbothen, No. 12 of December 20, 2009, p. 7 ( Memento of the original of July 8, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grossbothen.de
  3. ^ Queen-Carola-Gymnasium Leipzig: Directory of teachers and students 1934 to 1935 , Leipzig 1935, p. 7
  4. ↑ a b c blurb of the books in the historical train station buildings series
  5. ^ Obituary Professor Dr.-Ing. habil. Manfred Berger. In: Podium (Journal of the University of Technology, Economics and Culture Leipzig), Volume 16, No. 1/2010, p. 59 ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.htwk-leipzig.de
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, monument conservator, university professor and specialist book author
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 2009