Peter Friedrich Schneider

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WDR radio station Cologne (1956)
Sports School Duisburg (1962)
Main swimming pool Essen (2008)

Peter Friedrich Schneider , born as Friedrich Karl Jakob Schneider , (born May 28, 1901 in Essen , †  December 14, 1981 in Mindelheim ) was a German architect .

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Youth and education

Friedrich Karl Jakob Schneider grew up in a modest middle-class family in Essen-Rüttenscheid . Later he took the first name Peter out of admiration for his teacher Peter Behrens . After completing an apprenticeship as a bricklayer at Friedrich Krupp , he studied architecture at the State Building Trade School in Essen. By inflation and the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 and career prospects were in the Ruhr area but very bad, and Schneider went together with a fellow student for a year on tour, which took her to Italy and in Switzerland, where they have some time at the Institute of Technology in Zurich studied .

In 1925 Schneider went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna for a year , where he was a master student of Peter Behrens and completed his training. A traveling exhibition with works by Behrens and his students in Essen showed a church design by Schneider.

Work as an architect

In 1926 Peter Friedrich Schneider became an employee of Professor Edmund Körner and was involved in the construction of the Folkwang Museum . At Körner, he was also involved in the construction of the Ford factory in Cologne in 1930/1931 and headed its Cologne office.

Because Körner was involved in the construction of the Essen synagogue , the order situation for his office worsened after 1933, including a temporary construction ban in the "Gau Essen". Schneider was accepted into the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in 1934 and joined the NSDAP in 1937 . Although he also planned private houses, like his own, his domain became industrial construction, mostly in collaboration with Körner. In 1936 he took over the construction management for an extension of Ford and a building for Ford in Budapest (1939/1940).

After Körner's death in 1940, Peter Friedrich Schneider continued to run his Cologne office alone. He was exempted from military service as "indispensable" because he was in charge of repair work at Ford and the factories delivered trucks to the Wehrmacht . In the 1940s, prisoners of war and forced laborers were increasingly involved in this work.

After the Second World War

After the Second World War , Schneider continued to receive orders from Ford; In 1948 he was classified as a “fellow traveler” in the denazification process . Between 1948 and 1955, the warehouse grew four and a half times and the office space four times. Schneider's boiler house, which was built in several construction phases, "was one of the most spectacular Ford buildings of the post-war era". The construction of the radio station Wallrafplatz in Cologne brought Schneider the breakthrough in his post-war career.

Other striking buildings designed by Schneider were the publishing house of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Essen and the NAAFI shop for the British occupiers in Cologne-Raderthal (demolished in 1993). After the Second World War, he also planned numerous buildings for sporting purposes such as pools and sports halls as well as single-family houses.

The architect Peter Neufert was one of his employees . Schneider's estate is in the historical archive of the city of Cologne and is "with [its] collapse [...] for an indefinite period, if not completely lost".

Buildings (selection)

Publications

  • Architectural requirements for broadcasting, explained using the example of the Cologne radio house . In: Planning and Building in the New Germany . Cologne / Opladen 1960. pp. 246–248.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ute Reuschenberg: Peter Friedrich Schneider (1901–1981). Architect of Armaments and Reconstruction on the Rhine and Ruhr - An Approach . In: Rheinisches Amt für Denkmalpflege (Ed.): Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland . 30, No. 1. Klartext Verlag, 2013, p. 14 .
  2. ↑ Anka Ghise-Beer: the architect Peter Neufert. A contribution to development trends in architecture in the first post-war decades - Volume 2. (PDF) Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 2001, p. 125 , accessed on December 11, 2013 . Other sources indicate Bad Wörishofen or Bad Wörishofen / Mindelheim .
  3. ↑ a b c Ute Reuschenberg: Peter Friedrich Schneider (1901–1981). Architect of Armaments and Reconstruction on the Rhine and Ruhr - An Approach . In: Rheinisches Amt für Denkmalpflege (Ed.): Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland . 30, No. 1. Klartext Verlag, 2013, p. 15 .
  4. ↑ Ute Reuschenberg: Peter Friedrich Schneider (1901–1981). Architect of Armaments and Reconstruction on the Rhine and Ruhr - An Approach . In: Rheinisches Amt für Denkmalpflege (Ed.): Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland . 30, No. 1. Klartext Verlag, 2013, p. 16 .
  5. ↑ a b Ute Reuschenberg: Peter Friedrich Schneider (1901–1981). Architect of Armaments and Reconstruction on the Rhine and Ruhr - An Approach . In: Rheinisches Amt für Denkmalpflege (Ed.): Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland . 30, No. 1. Klartext Verlag, 2013, p. 17 .
  6. ↑ a b Ute Reuschenberg: Peter Friedrich Schneider (1901–1981). Architect of Armaments and Reconstruction on the Rhine and Ruhr - An Approach . In: Rheinisches Amt für Denkmalpflege (Ed.): Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland . 30, No. 1. Klartext Verlag, 2013, p. 18 .
  7. ^ HASTK: Schneider, Peter Friedrich (Best. 1360)
  8. ↑ Entry in German Postwar Modern

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personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Peter Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1981
Place of death Mindelheim