Paul Kanold

Paul Kanold (born April 18, 1874 in Breslau , † October 14, 1946 in Hanover ; full name: Paul Georg Kanold ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Paul Kanold first studied at the Technische Hochschule (Berlin-) Charlottenburg with Carl Schäfer and later followed his teacher to the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe . In 1901 he received the Schinkel Prize for the design of a princely palace in Berlin, in the same year he completed his practical training ( legal clerkship ) with the 2nd state examination.

Kanold then worked as a construction clerk in the Prussian civil service, since 1901 as a government master builder ( assessor ), since 1907 as an agricultural inspector. In 1908 he switched to the municipal building administration of the city of Frankfurt am Main as a town planning inspector . In 1911 he was appointed professor for urban planning and design at the Technical University of Hanover . During this time he also designed several city villas in Minden, which were then built according to his plans and are now mostly listed . In 1930 he became a member of the Free German Academy of Urban Development in Berlin .

On May 1, 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,313,616) and in November of the same year he signed the confession of the German professors to Adolf Hitler . On October 1, 1939 - according to other sources, not until October 1940 - he was retired . As the only university professor at the Technical University of Hanover, he resigned from the NSDAP before the end of the National Socialist tyranny in 1943.

Buildings and designs

Minden City Theater

Town hall with market hall (left) in Herford

(Selection)

• 1902–1906: Regional council in Minden (collaboration on the artistic design within the state building administration under Paul Kieschke )
• 1903–1905: Knappschaftskrankenhaus in Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf (attribution not clearly established)
• 1906–1908: District Office (Kreishaus) in Minden (involved in planning as an employee of the state building administration)
• 1906–1908: City Theater in Minden (in collaboration with City Planning Officer August Kersten)

During his work in the Frankfurt building administration (1908–1911) he was involved in z. B. in the planning and construction of the Liebig-Oberrealschule and the advanced training school in Rohrbachstrasse (today's "Hans-Böckler-Schule").

• 1909: Partial new construction of the St. Aegidius village church in ( Hameln -) Holtensen
• 1913–1917: Town hall and market hall in Herford
• 1921: Hunaeusstrasse 1 residential high-rise in Hanover
• 1921–1922: Noll town villa , residential building in Minden .
• 1921–1922: Administration building of the Vereinigte Schmirgel- und Maschinenfabriken AG in Hanover-Hainholz
• 1925–1926: Administration building of Elektrizitätswerk Minden-Ravensberg GmbH (EMR) in Herford
• around 1930: Design for an extension of the town hall in Bad Hersfeld (not carried out)
• 1937: Renovation and remodeling of the St. Lamberti Church in Oldenburg i. O. (Baptistery in the basement of the main tower largely preserved in its original state to this day)

literature

• Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hannover, 1931, pp. 98-99.
• Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956). In: “Ostdeutsche Familienkunde”, issue 3/2007, pages 109–120, volume XVIII (55th year), Verlag Degener & Co., Insingen 2007.
• Fred Kaspar, Ulf-Dietrich Korn (arrangement): City of Minden. (= Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, vol. 50.) Part 1, part 3 (register). Klartext Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88474-631-8 . (Information on biography and buildings on pp. 180–182)

Web links

Commons : Paul Kanold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralph Hennings, Torben Koopmann: St. Lamberti Church in Oldenburg. DKV Edition, Berlin / Munich 2011, p. 30f. and p. 48.