Norbert Demmel

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Norbert Demmel (born May 5, 1905 in Linz , Austria; † unknown) was a German architect and SS leader of Austrian origin.

In 1934 Demmel fled to Germany from Austria, where he was under an arrest warrant for participating in the Nazi coup attempt. He took over the management of the housing construction of the Schleissheim aid camp, which was open to fugitive Austrians. He organized the construction of accommodation for the SS in Arolsen and Munich. Until 1937 he was the construction manager of the Wewelsburg and also the construction manager of the Externsteine ​​Foundation , which he administered. From September 1, 1937 to 1945, he worked in the DRK Presidium, to which he was appointed by Oswald Pohl , to whom he was subordinate, and since 1938 head of the main construction department in the administrative office. In this function he created the design for his main architectural work, the DRK presidential building in Potsdam - Babelsberg .

After the Second World War he was based in Düsseldorf and built schools, a. a. the Hildegardis School in Bochum (1955–1957) and the former elementary school and today's elementary school in Düsseldorf-Bilk (1956–1958), which is a listed building. and in 1959 a high-rise apartment building on Brehmstrasse in Düsseldorf.

literature

  • Dietrich Eichholtz (Ed.): Persecution, everyday life, resistance. Brandenburg during the Nazi era. Studies and documents. Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-353-00991-4 , p. 167. (with date and place of birth and further biographical details)

Individual evidence

  1. Markus Wicke: SS and DRK. The Presidium of the German Red Cross in the National Socialist system of rule 1937–1945. (Book on Demand) Vicia, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-8311-4125-8 , p. 125. (online as a snippet view at Google books )
  2. ^ Sabine Rödiger: The German Red Cross during the National Socialist dictatorship. GRIN, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-71860-8 , p. 18. (online as a snippet view at Google books )
  3. Birgitt Morgenbrod, Stephanie Merkenich: The German Red Cross under the Nazi dictatorship 1933–1945. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76529-1 , p. 174, p. 407. (online as a snippet view at Google books )
  4. Markus Wicke: SS and DRK. The Presidium of the German Red Cross in the National Socialist system of rule 1937–1945. (Book on Demand) Vicia, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-8311-4125-8 , p. 96. (online as snippet view at Google books )
  5. ^ Sabine Rödiger: The German Red Cross during the National Socialist dictatorship. GRIN, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-71860-8 , p. 16. (online as a snippet view at Google books )
  6. ^ Helmut Weihsmann: Building under the swastika. Architecture of doom. Promedia, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85371-113-8 , p. 741. (online as a snippet view at Google books )
  7. Regine Jaszinski, Markus Wicke: The University Campus Griebnitzsee. A historical overview. (online as a PDF document with approx. 1.53 MB)
  8. ^ Jörg AE Heimeshoff : Listed houses in Düsseldorf. With garden and ground monuments. Nobel, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-922785-68-9 , p. 337. (online as a snippet view at Google books )
  9. Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
  10. Brehmstrasse backyard