Robert Kisch

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Robert Kisch (born March 18, 1897 in Hermannstadt ( Transylvania ), † July 16, 1977 in Wuppertal ) was a German architect who worked for the Army Construction Administration in Berlin in the 1930s and worked in Wuppertal after the Second World War.

Life

Robert Kisch attended the (German-speaking) Protestant grammar school in Sibiu and graduated from high school in 1916. Between 1916 and 1918 he appears to have participated in the First World War as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and was awarded the Silver Medal for Bravery, 1st class .

Kisch studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin from 1920 to 1924 , a. a. with German Bestelmeyer and Hermann Jansen . He completed his studies with a degree in engineering and then initially worked in Sibiu, but apparently soon returned to Berlin. There he worked in 1927 as an employee of the architect Eduard Jobst Siedler in his competition design for the extension of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. In the 1930s he was based in Berlin, where he worked on the preparations for the "New Building" section of the 1931 German Building Exhibition in Berlin. After a short period of self-employment, he worked as an architect for the Army Construction Administration.

Kisch took part in the Second World War as an officer and was taken prisoner by the French in 1945. After his release, he settled with his family in Wuppertal-Barmen. He worked as a freelancer from 1948 until his death and was appointed a member of the Association of German Architects .

Kisch was active in the regional groups of the Transylvanian Saxons and wrote articles - especially on historical topics - for their organ, the Transylvanian newspaper . In 1975 he was awarded the Transylvanian-Saxon Culture Prize for his commitment .

Buildings and designs

Former officers' mess in Neuruppin

During his work for the Army Construction Administration, the Army Construction Office in Frankfurt (Oder) , the Reiter barracks in Fürstenwalde and 1937–1939 the Krampnitz Cavalry and Armored Troop School in Potsdam- Krampnitz were created according to his designs .

From 1948 he created buildings for industry and trade, numerous schools, old people's homes, the textile engineering school in Wuppertal, various savings bank buildings and residential and commercial buildings.

literature

  • Hans Wühr : Robert Kisch. For his 70th birthday. In: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahrsblätter , year 1967, issue 1, pp. 29–31.
  • Deutsche Bauzeitschrift , year 1967, issue 4 (April 1967), p. 654. (short tribute to his 70th birthday)
  • East German Memorial Days , 13th year 1977, p. 28f.
  • Ekhart Berckenhagen (arrangement): Architectural drawings 1479–1979. (= Publication by the Berlin Art Library , Volume 84.) Spiess, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-88435-000-5 , p. 259. (Short biography) .
  • Christian Welzbacher: The State Architecture of the Weimar Republic , Berlin: Lukas 2006, ISBN 978-3-936872-62-0 , p. 301.

Web links

Commons : Construction of an officers' mess for a tank regiment from 1936  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d East German Memorial Days , 13th year 1977, p. 28f.
  2. ↑ a b Siebenbürgische Zeitung , Volume 27, 1977, No. 12 (from July 31, 1977), p. 8. (Obituary)
  3. ↑ "... that (...) Robert Kisch was classmate in the German-Protestant grammar school in Sibiu and was a co-high school graduate of Norbert von Hannenheim in 1916 ..."
    in: Karl Teutsch (Ed.): Contributions to the history of music in Transylvania Saxony, Volume 2. (= Music History Studies , Volume 4b.) Kludenbach 1999, ISBN 3-927293-17-2 , p. 128.
  4. ↑ a b Ekhart Berckenhagen (Ed.): Architectural drawings 1479-1979. (= Publication by the Berlin Art Library , Volume 84.) Spiess, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-88435-000-5 , p. 259 (short biography).
  5. ^ Heinrich Zillich : Robert Kisch architecture exhibition in Sibiu and Kronstadt. In: Klingsor, Siebenbürgische Zeitschrift , 4th year 1927, p. 436.
  6. ↑ Kisch's participation in the revision of the design and the construction (1928–1930) is nowhere expressly mentioned. For collaboration on the competition design, see:
    • Helmut Engel , Wolfgang Ribbe: Capital Berlin, what to do with the center? Historical, urban planning and architectural roots of the city center. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-0500-2403-8 , p. 36.
    • Dietmar Arnold: New Reich Chancellery and “Führerbunker”. Legends and Reality. Ch.links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-353-7 , p. 34/35.
  7. ↑ Siebenbürgische Zeitung , Volume 25, 1975, No. 9, p. 3. (Laudation for the award ceremony)
  8. ^ Marie Luise Buchinger: Krampnitz. The former cavalry school. In: Brandenburgische Denkmalpflege ( ISSN  0942-3397 ), 6th year 1997, No. 2, pp. 12-23.
personal data
SURNAME Kisch, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Sibiu
DATE OF DEATH before July 31, 1977
Place of death Wuppertal