Serafim Polenz

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Serafim Polenz (born May 22, 1925 in Windau , Latvia ; † May 7, 2001 in Schwerin ) was a German architect and preservationist.

Life

Serafim Polenz came from Kurland , came to Germany with his parents in 1939 as a result of the resettlement of the Baltic Germans after the Hitler-Stalin Pact and worked in the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic Republic after the Second World War . He studied architecture at the University of Architecture and Construction in Weimar, today's Bauhaus University Weimar . After graduating from university as a graduate engineer , he worked first at the Museum of German History , then in the state preservation of monuments as a conservator and finally as chief conservator. In addition to Weimar and Berlin, the later Institute for the Preservation of Monuments in Schwerin had become his new place of work since 1956, where he died shortly before the age of 76. In Schwerin he was Walter Ohle's deputy .

He was a member of the Association of German Architects in the GDR.

Polenz became known for his contribution to the preservation of the former prisoner barracks in the Buchenwald concentration camp and his design for the design of the memorial to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , which he had presented on behalf of the Museum of German History.

Publications (selection)

  • German building regulations and the preservation of monuments . In: Communications for the voluntary shop stewards of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments in the German Democratic Republic, Schwerin Branch, Schwerin, 1960, no. 9, pp. 6-11.
  • Conservator Dr. Walter Ohle on his 65th birthday on September 1, 1969 . In: Notices from the Institute for Monument Preservation - Schwerin Office to the honorary officers for monument preservation in the Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, Schwerin districts 1970, pp. 92–94.
  • New building in the country, the culture houses in Mestlin and Murchin. In: Monuments of the socialist construction. 1979, pp. 79-83.
  • (with Gudrun Hahn, Heinz Lösler and others): Architectural guide GDR, Schwerin district. VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1984.
  • (with Reinhardt Hootz and Kaur Alttoa): Art monuments of the Baltic States. A picture manual. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Darmstadt: Scientific Book Society, 1992.

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7713 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ At that time, the Schwerin branch of the Institute for Monument Preservation in the German Democratic Republic.
  2. ↑ Entry in the DPA
personal data
SURNAME Polenz, Serafim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and preservationist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Windau , Latvia
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2001
Place of death Schwerin