Max Kälberer

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Max Kälberer (* 1892 ; † after 1959 ) was a German architect .

Life

Kälberer studied architecture and passed the second state examination after completing his legal clerkship , but then retired from civil service as a government master builder ( assessor ). He then worked independently in Nuremberg and was appointed to the Association of German Architects (BDA) before 1930 .

Kälberer gained notoriety through his involvement in the construction of the post office on Nuremberg station square. The steel skeleton of this modern building had already been erected as a load-bearing structure in 1932 . When the National Socialists moved into the town hall after the local elections, they brought about a construction freeze and a rescheduling of the architecture, which according to their understanding of culture was “sober” , “poor” and “brutal” . The design by Max Kälberer won an architecture competition announced for the new facade design of the building with the vote of the judges Paul Ludwig Troost and Julius Streicher .

Buildings and designs

  • The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Nürnberg-Fischbach was built in 1932/1933 according to plans by Carl Brendel and Max Kälberer. (compare also: List of sacred buildings in Nuremberg )
  • The post office building on Bahnhofsplatz in Nuremberg was built in 1932–1935 according to plans by the building department of the Nuremberg Post Office and a monumental facade plan by Max Kälberer. The building is considered an early high-rise .
  • After the Second World War, Kälberer built the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Markus in Nuremberg- Gibitzenhof, which was inaugurated in 1954 .
  • The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Bamberg with a free-standing campanile and rectory was built between 1954 and 1956 on the south-western edge of the garden city of Bamberg .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nuremberg City Archives: Commemorative days, anniversaries and historical memory dates for 2012. online: http://www.stadtarchiv.nuernberg.de/stadtgeschichte/gedenkenage_2012.html , last accessed on January 12, 2012
  2. ↑ Alexander Schmidt: The old town in the heart and the eternal comparison with Dürer. Cultural debates in Nuremberg in the twenties and today. (Text version of a lecture from June 14, 2006) (online as a PDF document with approx. 140 kB)  ( 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.soziologie.wiso.uni-erlangen.de  
  3. ↑ tungsten Lübbeke: skyscrapers. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . January 16, 2012, accessed March 9, 2012 .
  4. ↑ 50 years of St. Mark's Church in Gibitzenhof. In: Evangelical Lutheran parish letter. Parish of St. Markus, March 2004, online: http://sanktmarkus-nbg.de/index.php?id=jb2004-03&L=%25C%25C , last accessed on January 12, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Kälberer, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1892
DATE OF DEATH 20th century