Martin Kießling

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Settlement of the Reichsbahndirektion Osten in Frankfurt (Oder), 1925 (Photo by Hugo Schmölz )
Side view of the Kießlinghaus in Frankfurt (Oder), threatened by decay
University Women's Clinic Berlin (renovation 1928–1933)
Mausoleum for Wilhelm II near Doorn House, 2007

Martin Kießling (born April 28, 1879 in Berlin ; † April 2, 1944 there ; full name: Johannes (Hanns) Martin Kießling ) was a German architect and Prussian construction officer .

Life

Martin Kießling was a son of the elementary school teacher (for drawing and music) Theodor Kießling and his wife Marie Kießling geb. Becker. He grew up in Berlin's Niederschonhausen and made his Abitur at the high school to the Gray Monastery . This was followed by a degree in architecture at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . Kießling's entry in the 1908 Schinkel Prize competition was accepted for his state examination. From 1908 he worked as a government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration) at the Prussian Railway Directorate in Cologne and worked with Adolph Kayser under the direction of Karl Biecker on the planning of the railway administration building in Cologne . During the First World War, Kießling was deployed as a soldier in construction companies. From August 1921 to the summer of 1924 he was in charge of the extensive buildings of the Reichsbahndirektion Osten in Frankfurt (Oder) , which was relocated to Frankfurt from the areas lost to Poland. He then worked again at the Reich Railway Directorate in Cologne until he was given a leave of absence from the state service in February 1927 - in the meantime in the service of a Reichsbahn Oberrat - in order to reorganize the building administration of the city of Gdansk with a private-law service contract as a town planning officer . In 1927 Kießling was also the first chairman of the architects and engineers association for the Lower Rhine and Westphalia .

As early as February 1928 he was appointed ministerial director in the building construction department of the Prussian Ministry of Finance in Berlin, and when he took office on March 16, 1928, he was the highest-ranking Prussian construction officer in this position. In 1930 he was awarded Aachen University , the honorary doctorate ( Dr.-Ing. E. h. ) As "the purposeful rearranger the Prussian architectural administration, in recognition of the energy and the foresight, which by virtue of this widely ramified Authority under his leadership at work contemporary design takes a responsible and essential part ” .

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, criticism of Kießling's more recent buildings in the New Building style , which contradicted the Nazi cultural ideology, was voiced. He was retired on October 1, 1933.

Kiessling married Elly Le Blanc (1879–1948) from Opladen in 1914. Their daughter Ruth, born in 1917, was later married to the lawyer Philipp Möhring (1900–1975).

Martin Kießling died of cancer in 1944. His grave is in the Waldfriedhof Berlin-Dahlem .

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Buildings and designs

  • 1919–1928: Gremberghoven railroad settlement in Cologne
  • 1920: Settlement for the savings and construction association Jülich in Jülich
  • 1920–1922: Settlement for the non-profit building cooperative Mödrath in Mödrath
  • 1921–1923: Eintrachtstrasse settlement for the Neuss housing company for civil servants and private employees eGmbH in Neuss ( attribution )
  • 1922: Settlement for the Reichsbahndirektion Cologne in Kreuzberg (Ahr)
  • 1922–1925: Settlement buildings of the Reichsbahndirektion Osten, so-called "Ostmarkbauten", including the Paulinenhof housing estate , in Frankfurt (Oder)
  • 1923–1925: Settlement for the Reich Railway Directorate Cologne in Jünkerath
  • 1925: Housing complex for the Reichsbahnsiedlungs-Gesellschaft Köln in Aachen
  • 1925–1926: Housing complex for the Reichsbahnsiedlungs-Gesellschaft Köln in Koblenz
  • 1927: Group of apartment buildings on Weißenburger Strasse in Aachen
  • 1927: Group of apartment buildings on Pfeilstrasse in Aachen
  • 1927: Multi-family residential building development at Hohenzollernstrasse / Hindenburgstrasse in Jülich
  • 1927–1929: Helene Lange School ( Lyceum ) in Danzig (with Albert Krüger)
  • 1928–1933: University Women's Clinic in Berlin
  • before 1930: Heeresanger / Ringstrasse apartment building development in Danzig (with Albert Krüger)
  • before 1930: Pestalozzi double school in Danzig (with Albert Krüger)
  • before 1930: urban design for the square at Langgarter Tor in Danzig (with Albert Krüger)
  • 1941/1942: Mausoleum for the ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II in the park of Haus Doorn , Netherlands

Fonts

  • Ostmark buildings. Urban development in a medium-sized town. (with photos by Hugo Schmölz ) Julius Hoffmann Verlag, Stuttgart 1925.
  • The buildings of the Reich Railway Directorate Cologne. In: Cologne. Structural development 1888–1927. Berlin 1927, pp. 124-127. ( as reprint: Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-88375-965-4 )
  • Architecture, architects and the Reichsbahn. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 48, 1928, No. 44 (from October 31, 1928), pp. 705–712.
  • New building ideas in old Gdansk. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 49th year 1929, No. 43 (from October 23, 1929), pp. 693–704.
  • Gustav Kassbaum . (Obituary) In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 49th year 1929, No. 32 (from 7th August 1929), p. 521. ( digitized version)
  • New state buildings in Prussia. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 50th year 1930, No. 1 (from January 8, 1930), pp. 3–12.

literature

  • Ralf-Rüdiger Targiel : Frankfurt (Oder) as it was. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-1014-0 , p. 96f. (Information on Kießling's activity in Frankfurt (Oder), with life data)
  • Horst Voigt: On the life of Hanns Martin Kießling and his buildings in Frankfurt (Oder), in: Frankfurter Jahrbuch 2012, Frankfurt (Oder), ISBN 978-3-9814739-1-9 , pp. 7–146.

Web links

Commons : Martin Kießling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ top v .: The result of the competition for the Schinkel Festival 1908 in the Architects' Association in Berlin. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 17 (from February 29, 1908) ( digitized version ), p. 124.
  2. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 61, 1927, No. 11 (from February 5, 1927), p. 112.
  3. ↑ Cologne. Structural development 1888–1927. Berlin 1927, p. 5. ( as reprint: Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-88375-965-4 )
  4. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 48, 1928, No. 8 (from February 22, 1928), p. 128.
  5. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 62, 1928, No. 16 (from February 25, 1928), p. 152.
  6. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 48, 1928, No. 12 (from March 21, 1928), p. 202.
  7. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 50, 1930, No. 25 (from June 25, 1930), p. 458.
  8. ^ Rudolf Nirk:  Möhring, Philipp. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 622 f. ( Digitized version ). (Family information)
  9. ↑ Knut Stegmann, Philippe von Glisczynski: The railway settlement Gremberghoven. In: Monument Preservation in the Rhineland , year 2004, issue 4, pp. 177–183. ( online as a PDF document with approx. 1.15 MB )
  10. ^ Düttmann: Housing construction of the post-war period in Germany. Rhineland. Berlin undated (around 1930), p. 42.
  11. ↑ a b Düttmann around 1930, p. 40.
  12. ↑ GWG Neuss (ed.): ... committed to people. Neuss 2006, p. 19.
  13. ↑ Schnitzler (Ed.): Paths through the north city. The Furth. Neuss 2016, p. 244.
  14. ↑ a b Düttmann around 1930, p. 41.
  15. ↑ Horst Voigt: The Ostmarkbauten in Frankfurt (Oder). In: Mitteilungen des Historisches Verein zu Frankfurt (Oder) , year 2003, issue 2, pp. 2–25.
  16. ↑ Düttmann around 1930, p. 39.
  17. ↑ a b c Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 48, 1928, No. 6 (from February 8, 1928)
  18. ↑ a b c d Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 49th year 1929, No. 43 (from October 23, 1929)
personal data
SURNAME Kiessling, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kießling, Johannes Martin; Kießling, Hanns Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Prussian building officer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1944
Place of death Berlin