Piotr Zaremba
Piotr Zaremba (born June 10, 1910 in Heidelberg ; † October 8, 1993 in Stettin ) was a Polish architect and urban planner . He was the first Polish mayor of Szczecin.
Life
Piotr Zaremba studied architecture and town planning in Poznan and Lviv . Before the Second World War he worked as a city official in Poznan . He lived there during the German occupation of Poland .
In 1945 he was appointed city president of Szczecin and held this office until 1950. During the reconstruction of the city, he sought to remove the city's historical orientation towards Berlin. Instead, he initiated the planning of the city, which is now on the outskirts of Poland, to the east.
From 1947 he was a teacher at the Faculty of Architecture at the Szczecin Engineering School , later the Technical University. Zaremba specialized in spatial planning , was a co-founder of this field of study in Poland and worked on projects for numerous countries in Asia , Africa and Latin America . In the field of environmental and landscape design , he dealt with ecological aspects in urban and industrial areas.
Piotr Zaremba was an honorary member of the Polish Academy of Sciences . In 1999 the readers of the Szczecin edition of Gazeta Wyborcza voted him the most popular Szczecin of the century.
Fonts (selection)
- Dziennik 1945 ( German : Diary 1945 ), Szczecin 1996
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Interview with Piotr Zaremba on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Szczecin ( Memento from May 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Stettin - urban development in the field of tension between history and politics at Planerwelt.de
- ↑ The Mayors of Szczecin ( Memento from December 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zaremba, Piotr |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish architect and urban planner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1993 |
| Place of death | Szczecin |