Martin Graßnick

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Martin Graßnick (born May 5, 1917 in Mainz ; died July 4, 2020 in Baden-Baden ) was a German architect , architectural historian and monument conservator .

Life

Graßnick's father lost his job as a construction clerk in Mainz following the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933 due to the law to restore the professional civil service , as he was considered a quarter Jew according to the National Socialist racial ideology . His children had to leave the grammar school, and Martin Graßnick trained as a draftsman at the building school in Mainz with Gustav Friedrich Scheinpflug . He was committed to the Reich Labor Service and drafted into the Wehrmacht . Since the Jewish origin was concealed in his personal files, Graßnick received an officer training during the Second World War and was assigned the rank of lieutenant on the Eastern Front. After the German occupation of Italy in 1943, he was sent to Pescara as head of a pioneer company . In his area of ​​command, he prevented the deportation of demobilized members of the Italian armed forces as military internees to Germany. Because of this attitude Graßnick was honored with the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Officer) in 1984 .

After the end of the war, Graßnick studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt , where he also received his doctorate . Initially active as a lecturer at the State Building School in Mainz , he became its director in 1956 and at the same time director of the Mainz Werkkunstschule in 1959. In addition to his work at the engineering school, he was a consultant for the preservation of monuments to the North Rhine-Westphalian state government. He was responsible for the reconstruction of the Quirinus Minster in Neuss and was the master builder of the war-damaged cathedral in Xanten from 1947 to 1977 . After setting up the University Institute for Vocational Education in Mainz in 1966, in 1969 he was entrusted with the organizational management of the Trier-Kaiserslautern university , which he ran as planned for the 1970/71 winter semester. In 1982 Graßnick retired and was made an honorary senator by the Technical University of Kaiserslautern . At the beginning of 2016, a visiting professorship established in the History and Theory of Architecture department was named after him in his honor. Graßnick last lived in Baden-Baden.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Gothic vaults of Xanten Cathedral and their restoration after 1945. Darmstadt 1963.
  • Trullo Fera. Shape and construction of the trulli on the Murgia of Apulia. Deutscher Consulting-Verlag, Wuppertal 1977.
  • (as editor): The architecture of antiquity. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1982.
  • (as editor): The architecture of the Middle Ages. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1982.
  • (as editor): The architecture of the modern age. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1982.
  • (as editor): Urban history from antiquity to modern times. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1982.
  • Baths and hygienic facilities as evidence of early cultures. R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1992.
  • Festschrift Martin Graßnick. Department ARUBI of the University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 1987.

literature

  • Klaus Franck: On the 90th birthday of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Graßnick. In: Unispectrum, magazine of the TU Kaiserslautern from July 19, 2007.
  • Henning Klüver : The good enemy. Martin Graßnick is the only former Wehrmacht soldier whom the Republic of Italy has honored. It showed what so many other crew officers lacked: humanity. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 19, 2012.
  • Martin Graßnick: "I haven't forgotten that look" . Martin Graßnick's war experiences and his encounter with Heinrich Himmler . In: Badische Latest News from September 1, 2016 (online)
  • At the age of 99 to the cradle of the Renaissance (on the life of Martin Graßnick). In: Badische Latest News from September 8, 2016 (online)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Graßnick's obituaries | Volksfreund.Trauer.de. Retrieved on July 11, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Information on the order in the article by Henning Klüver (→ literature); no hit for "Martin Graßnick" in the Quirinale database
  3. ↑ / Press release of the TU Kaiserslautern about the establishment of the Martin Graßnick Professorship ( Memento from May 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 18, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Graßnick, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grassnick, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, architectural historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2020
Place of death Baden-Baden