Max Guther

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Max Guther, around 1960

Max Guther (born February 12, 1909 in Neu-Ulm ; † June 9, 1991 in Darmstadt ) was a German architect , urban planner and university professor .

Life

Guther studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart under Paul Bonatz , Paul Schmitthenner and Heinz Wetzel . From 1931 he was employed as an architect in Stuttgart and Colmar , from 1934 to 1940 in Hamburg as a freelancer in Konstanty Gutschow's office and as a freelance architect and urban planner in Hamburg and Schwerin. From 1940 to July 1945 Guther served as a marine in World War II .

1945–1947 he was a town planner in Wismar . Guther resumed the plans previously worked out in Gutschow's office for Wismar and created a reduced land use plan and a reconstruction plan. Guther left the Soviet-occupied zone as early as 1947 due to the political control of planning and construction and became an alderman (city planning officer ) in Ulm .

In the autumn of 1954 Guther was appointed full professor for urban planning and settlement at the Technical University of Darmstadt (as successor to Karl Gruber ).

The town planning colloquium, which he initiated as early as the 1950s as an interdisciplinary facility for urban planners, urban sociologists and traffic planners, became an important component of teaching . On Friday afternoon this was the stage for external urban planners; Here the students and also the external graduates experienced the practice in vivid presentations.

During his tenure, Max Guther brought the well-known urban planner Ernst May (1886–1970) as honorary professor to the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1957 , and from 1971 Thomas Sieverts to the newly established professorship in Urban Design II. In this context, the specialist group was established in 1970 with his colleague Rolf Romero City as an interdisciplinary working group instead of a chair.

At the end of the 1960s, Max Guther campaigned for the establishment of a professional institution. With 50 colleagues, he founded the Association of German Planners in Bonn in 1969 , which served as its first chairman from 1969 to 1970. From the Association of German Planners, the Association for City, Regional and State Planners (SRL) developed in 1972 . He was the first chairman of this association.

Guther was also intensely involved in the university policy debate of the 1960s. Alongside the physicist Friedrich Beck and the sociologist Manfred Teschner, he was a member of the board of directors of the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1969/1970.

In addition to his university activities, Guther ran a free office for urban development and urban planning for many years after his retirement in various collaborations (planning office Guther and Stracke , from 1974 as StadtBauPlan). His planning for the urban expansion of Düsseldorf in Garath was incorporated into his teaching .

Together with the Darmstadt hydraulic engineering professor Wilhelm J. Müller , Max Guther was involved in a larger development project in Ethiopia.

From 1971 to 1991 Guther was a member of the Academy of Arts , Architecture Section.

Awards

German urban planning

On the 100th birthday of his Stuttgart urban planning teacher Heinz Wetzel (1882–1945), Max Guther took on the task of presenting this in the context of urban planning at the German technical universities. This resulted in the first, as yet incomplete, state of research on the German urban planning chairs up to 1945.

Technical University of Darmstadt

  • 1897–1927 Karl Hofmann (1856–1933) architecture
  • 1902–1922 Friedrich Pützer (1871–1922) town planning, church building, perspective and impromptu design
  • 1922–1933 Karl Roth (1875–1932) architecture and town planning
  • 1932–1933 Karl Lieser (1901–1990) urban planning representative
  • 1933–1955 Karl Gruber (1885–1966) designing, town planning and guiding principles of medieval architecture
  • 1954–1974 Max Guther (1909–1991) Urban planning and settlement
  • 1975–1981 Martin Einsele (1928–2000) design, town planning and settlement
  • 1987–2004 Stephan Goerner, design, urban development and settlement
  • since 2006 Annete Rudolph-Cleff (* 1965) design and urban development
  • 1971–2001 Thomas Sieverts (* 1934) design and urban development
  • 2001–2018 Julian Wékel (* 1951) design and regional development
  • 1972–1981 Rudolf Stalling
  • 1982–1999 Roland Wick (1936–2011)
  • 1972–1981 Karl-Heinz Jacobitz (1927–2012) urban and regional planning
  • 1982–2008 Hans Reiner Böhm, environmental and spatial planning
  • 2009–2016 Jochen Monstadt, spatial and infrastructure planning

Technical University of Aachen

Technical University of Charlottenburg / Berlin

  • 1903–1922 Felix Genzmer (1856–1929) Urban planning and colored decoration
  • 1922–1938 Hermann Jansen (1869–1945) urban design
  • 1930–1933 Bruno Taut (1880–1938) honorary professor for urban planning
  • 1940–1953 Gerhard Jobst, town planning and settlement
  • 1953–1960 Werner March (1894–1976) Urban planning and settlement
  • 1960–1966 Fritz Eggeling (1913–1966) urban planning and settlement
  • 1968–1977 Friedrich Gunkel (1919–1977) urban planning and settlement
  • 1904–1927 Josef Brix (1859–1943) Urban planning and civil engineering
  • 1928–1935 Hermann Ehlgoetz (1880–1943) urban planning and civil engineering
  • 1938–1945 Erwin Marquardt (1889–1955) urban planning and civil engineering
  • 1936–1941 Gottfried Feder (1883–1941), associate professor for spatial planning and urban development

Technical University of Braunschweig

Technical University of Gdansk

  • 1925–1933 Karl Gruber (1885–1966) Medieval architecture and design

Technical University of Dresden

Technical University of Hanover

  • 1907–1941 Otto Blum (1876–1944) Railway construction and operation, from 1913 town planning
  • 1919–1938 Ernst Vetterlein (1873–1950) town planning and settlement
  • 1950–1952 Werner Hebebrand (1899–1966) urban and regional planning
  • 1953–1955 Roland Rainer (1910–2004) urban planning
  • 1956–1965 Wilhelm Wortmann (1897–1995) town planning, housing and regional planning
  • 1966–1993 Friedrich Spengelin (1925–2016) town planning, housing and regional planning
  • 1994–2007 Klaus Trojan (* 1942) town planning and design
  • 2009–2014 Manuel Scholl (* 1962) town planning and design
  • since 2015 Andreas Quednau (* 1967) urban planning

Technical University of Karlsruhe

  • 1862–1912 Reinhard Baumeister (1833–1917) Water, road and rail company
  • 1912–1926 Karl August Hoepfner (1880–1945) town planning
  • 1927–1948 Roman Heiligenthal (1880–1951) town planning, town economy and settlement
  • 1949–1961 Wilhelm Strickler, urban and regional planning
  • 1964–1985 Gadso Lammers , urban and regional planning
  • 1984–1997 Werner Köhl, urban and regional planning
  • 1997–2006 Bernd Scholl (* 1953) urban and regional planning
  • 1912–1925 Walter Sackur (1871–1926) City and Agriculture
  • 1927–1929 Hans Freese (1889–1953) design and urban development
  • 1930–1960 Otto Ernst Schweizer (1890–1965) Urban building construction, housing and settlement
  • 1961–1974 Adolf Bayer (1909–1999) town planning and design
  • 1981–1996 Martin Einsele (1928–2000) town planning and design
  • 1998–2013 Alex Wall, urban planning and design
  • since 2013 Barbara Engel (* 1969), international urban planning

Technical University of Munich

  • 1907–1928 Theodor Fischer (1862–1938) architecture and town planning
  • 1930–1932 Adolf Abel (1882–1968) architecture and town planning
  • 1961–1987 Gerd Albers (1919–2015) urban development and regional planning
  • 1988–2001 Ferdinand Stracke (* 1935) urban development and regional planning
  • 2003–2018 Sophie Wolfrum (* 1952) urban development and regional planning
  • 1954–1961 Georg Werner (1894–1964) design and urban development
  • 1961–1993 Fred Angerer (1925–2010) design and urban development
  • 1994–2007 Ingrid Krau (* 1942) Urban space and urban development
  • Since 2005 Alain Thierstein (* 1957), spatial development

Technical University of Stuttgart

  • 1901–1908 Theodor Fischer (1862–1938) building design including urban layout
  • 1909–1943 Paul Bonatz (1877–1956) town planning
  • 1947–1960 Richard Döcker (1894–1968) town planning and reconstruction
  • 1925–1945 Heinz Wetzel (1882–1945) town planning and settlement
  • 1948–1970 Rolf Gutbier (1903–1992) Settlement and Design
  • 1972–1981 Egbert Kossak (1936–2016) urban planning
  • 1982–1994 Klaus Humpert (* 1929) town planning
  • 1994–2014 Franz Pesch (* 1947) urban planning
  • since 2014 Martina Baum

Fonts

  • Friedrich Pützer architect - urban planner - university professor. In: Yearbook of the Technical University of Darmstadt 1978/1979 , pp. 7–28.
  • The architecture professors of the THD from 1841 to 1945 and their plans for the university and city of Darmstadt. In: Yearbook of the Technical University of Darmstadt 1980 , pp. 107–143.
  • On the history of urban planning at German universities. In: Heinz Wetzel and the history of urban planning at German universities. Stuttgart 1982.

literature

  • Werner Durth : Dreams in ruins. Braunschweig 1988, p. 152.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 136 .
  • Hille von Seggern: Max Guther 1909–1991. In: Planner 2/1991, p. 1.

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personal data
SURNAME Guther, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH New Ulm
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1991
Place of death Darmstadt