Robert Charton

Jean Robert Charton (born February 5, 1881 in Berlin ; † February 26, 1963 in Oldenburg ) was a German architect and building officer who was Oldenburg's city planning officer from 1922 to 1938 .

Live and act

Charton came from a Huguenot family and was the son of the merchant Jean Felix Charton and his wife Margarete, née Scheeffer. From 1899 to 1903 he studied architecture at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . In 1908 he passed the 2nd state examination and was appointed government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration). In the same year he married Helene Herta Voos (1884–1963).

From 1908 he worked as a Prussian construction clerk in Kiel and Frankfurt am Main , until he was appointed city planning councilor in 1922 by a unanimous decision of the city council of Oldenburg. He started work on July 1, 1922. He was responsible for the following construction projects:

• Electricity station at the Doktorsklappe, Amalienstraße / Nikolausstraße (1925)
• Margaretenschule Middle School on Margaretenstrasse (1926)
• Blumenhof elementary school , today the Free Waldorf School in Oldenburg , as well as the Blumenhof settlement houses (1928)
• Central cattle market on Dragonerstraße, today the Bundeswehr area (1926)
• Ofenerdieker School as a community school together with the communities of Rastede and Ohmstede (1931)
• Design of green spaces on the Stautorplatz, on Schleusenstraße, on the Dobbenteiche and on the Großer Bürgerbusch.

In particular, Charton campaigned for the construction of small settlements by the city or the non-profit settlement society (GSG) . In 1938 he was apparently dismissed by the National Socialist city ​​administration for political reasons , as his period of service was not extended. Charton switched to an industrial company in Mecklenburg and managed large construction sites there, from 1942 in Bromberg .

After the Second World War he returned to Oldenburg and became an employee of the GSG, for which he carried out structural engineering tasks. He died in 1963.

Fonts

In 1927 he was editor of the volume on the city of Oldenburg in the series Neue Stadtbaukunst , in 1932 he published the article "Oldenburg's cityscape under the influence of classicism" in the journal Lower Saxony , 37, 1932, pp. 461–472.

literature

• Stadtmagistrat Oldenburg iO, Theodor Goerlitz (Hrsg.): The state capital Oldenburg. German architecture and industry publishing house , Berlin 1927.
• Joachim Schrape: Charton, Jean Robert. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 124 f.