Paul Wenz (architect)

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Paul Wenz (born 1875 ; died 1965 ) was a German architect.

Life

Paul Wenz was the son of the commercial councilor and entrepreneur Adolf Wenz, who ran a building materials factory in Pullach . He studied architecture in Munich and Berlin and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1901 with a dissertation on the history of architecture on Filippo Brunelleschi . He worked as an assistant for architects such as Gabriel von Seidl , Friedrich von Thiersch and Theodor Fischer . Since 1903 he had his own architecture office. In 1909 he created an art gallery for the art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser in the newly built Arco-Palais in Munich. Wenz also designed textiles and furniture, he was a member of the Munich Association for Applied Arts and took part in the Paris Salon d'Automne in 1910 .

Wenz married the artist Else Viëtor in 1913 , they had three children and he brought a daughter from his first marriage. In 1913 they lived in Berlin and since 1916 in Icking .

Wenz was the architect of several residential complexes and private houses in Bavaria and received titles such as government building master and state building officer. Among other things, Wenz created the entrance building of the Prinzregentenstadion , the stage system of the Linz State Theater in 1933/35 ; at the end of the 1930s he planned the administration building of the explosives factory in Geretsried, completed in 1940, and the associated engineering houses, the school in Wolfratshausen , an NSV home in Mühldorf.

In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and the Sturmabteilung , in the SA he achieved the level of SA troop leader (sergeant). In 1944 he became regional director of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts as a representative .

After the Second World War, the house of the Wenz family in Icking was confiscated by the US Army. Paul Wenz was imprisoned in the Moosburg internment camp until mid-1946 , Else Wenz-Viëtor in the Stephanskirchen camp . Both were denazified . In 1956, the municipality of Icking named a street after its famous residents. In 2018, an explanatory historical plaque was attached to the street sign, which refers to the National Socialist past of the fellow citizens.

dissertation

  • The dome of the Duomo Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence: a contribution to the knowledge of the life and works of the builder Filippo Brunelleschi . Inaugural dissertation. Berlin: Ebering, 1901

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Street names in the municipality of Icking , near the municipality of Icking
  2. ↑ Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: a collection of biographies about personalities from eight centuries . Hamburg: tredition, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8424-9560-9 p. 639 (wrong date of death)
  3. ↑ Am Wenzberg in Icking: Explanatory attempt , in: SZ, January 3, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Wenz, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1875
DATE OF DEATH 1965