Paul Seitz (architect)
Paul Seitz (born October 21, 1911 in Nuremberg ; † February 21, 1989 in Hamburg ) was a German architect , town planner and construction clerk , from 1953 to 1963 he was the first construction director in Hamburg .
Life
Paul Seitz was born in Nuremberg in 1911. From 1925 he completed a three-year apprenticeship as a bricklayer. From 1929 to 1932 he attended the technical college in Nuremberg. Then he continued his education at the State School for Applied Arts in Nuremberg. From 1934 he worked in Franz Ruff's architectural office until he was drafted in 1941. After the Second World War he worked as a freelance architect.
From 1949 to 1952 Seitz was the city planner in Leverkusen . In 1953, senior construction director Werner Hebebrand brought him to Hamburg as first construction director and head of the building construction department. In this function he was the successor to Hans M. Antz. Seitz's term of office was ten years. During this time he mainly designed schools, university buildings and other public buildings. He developed three standardized types of assembly for schools: pavilion, honeycomb and cross construction. Several hundred classrooms were built in Hamburg based on his template.
In 1963 Seitz went to Berlin and became a professor at the University of Fine Arts .
Two years later he returned to Hamburg as managing director of the trade union company Neue Heimat . In the late 1960s he became a member of the board. In 1974 he left the company and worked as a freelance sculptor. He died in Hamburg at the age of 77.
Work (selection)
- 1952 Leverkusen Forest School
- 1952–1958: District Office Hamburg-Nord , Kümmellstrasse
- 1953–1957: Willhöden School in Blankenese
- from 1954: planning of the campus of the University of Hamburg
- from 1954: Building for the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Mittelweg
- from 1955: America House in Hamburg (demolished)
- 1958–1965: Hamburg House Eimsbüttel in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, Doormannsweg 12
- 1960–1963: Kunsthaus Hamburg, Ferdinandstor (demolished)
- around 1960/1961: Philosophers Tower of the University of Hamburg
- 1952/1953: Head of the buildings for the 1963 International Horticultural Exhibition in Hamburg
literature
- Boris Meyn : The architect and urban planner Paul Seitz. A work monograph. (= Publications of the Association for Hamburg History , Vol. 41). Verlag Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-92335-673-0 .
- Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg: Paul Seitz. Building as problem solving. In: Gert Kähler, Hans Bunge u. a. (Ed.): The architect as client Hamburg builder and their house. (= Series of publications by the Hamburg Architecture Archive, vol. 34). Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 3-86218-077-8 , pp. 252-260.
Web links
- Portrait: Paul Seitz in the Hamburg Architecture Archive
- Paul Seitz in the ifa database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Krieger: “Economic miracle reconstruction competition”: Architecture and urban development of the 1950s in Hamburg . University of Hamburg, Hamburg 1996, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 18-136 , p. 219, footnote 32. (University publication )
- ↑ Wolfgang Ebert: A city full of possibilities. In: Die Zeit, No. 13, March 31, 1955.
- ^ Gallery Morgenland (ed.), Sielke Salomon: An urban reparation. Building and living in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel 1950–1968. Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-933374-77-4 , p. 171.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seitz, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, town planner and building officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1989 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |