Robert Poeverlein

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Grave of Robert Poeverlein in the Nymphenburg cemetery in Munich.

Robert Poeverlein (born May 7, 1883 in Regensburg , † February 29, 1968 in Munich ) was a German architect at the Post Building School .

Poeverlein began his professional career at the Munich Railway Directorate and on June 1, 1920 was promoted to Senior Post Councilor at the Munich Post Office Directorate. Together with Robert Vorhoelzer , Poeverlein shaped the architectural style of the Upper Bavarian Post Building School until it lost its independence and was incorporated into the Reichspost in 1934. Most recently, he was head of post construction, building management and procurement for the Deutsche Reichspost in Bavaria. Poeverlein defended the new architecture right up to the end.

Poeverlein was honorary president of the Bavarian Arts and Crafts Association until 1933, but was relieved of his office that year because of his anti-Nazi attitude - he had not joined the NSDAP. After arguments with Gauleiter Julius Streicher , the Lord Mayor of Nuremberg Willy Liebel and Paul Ludwig Troost as well as disciplinary proceedings against him for "favoring Jews", Minister Wilhelm Ohnesorge removed him from the postal service as no longer acceptable .

After the war Poeverlein worked as a consultant and department head in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture. In 1951 Poeverlein, who had previously worked on the museum's reconstruction committee, was appointed to the board of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. In 1964 he resigned from this office. In the same year he was awarded the Heinrich von Stephan plaque by the Federal Minister of Post and General Director Edmond Struyf from Belgium .

Honors

Fonts

  • Healthy German craft. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934.
  • (as editor): Bavarian arts and crafts of today. Bruckmann, Munich 1952.
  • The reconstruction of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Munich 1953.
  • Memories. Munich 1966.

literature

  • Friedrich Bauer, Alfred Wiedenmann: The Bavarian Post Building School (1920-1934). In: Florian Aicher, Uwe Drepper (Ed.): Robert Vorhoelzer. An architect's life. The classic modernity of the Post. Munich 1990, pp. 152-157.

Individual evidence

  1. Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung from January 1, 1921
  2. ^ Karl Arndt: Die Münchener Architekturszene 1933/1934 aesthetic-political field of conflict, in: Martin Broszat, Elke Fröhlich and Anton Grossmann (eds.): Bavaria in the Nazi era. Rule and Society in Conflict, Part 2, Munich 1981, p. 488
  3. ^ Karen Königsberger: Networked System? The history of the Deutsches Museum 1945–1980.
  4. ZPF issue no. 1/1965; P. 1