Foundation for the promotion of building research

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The Berlin- based foundation for the promotion of building research (1931-1944) had the task of continuing the work of the Reich Research Society for Economic Efficiency in Building and Housing (RFG).

Foundation and members

On May 31, 1931, a general meeting of the RFG decided to liquidate the RFG and transfer all claims and liabilities to the newly established Foundation for the Promotion of Building Research (SFB). The founder of the foundation was the German Reich , represented by the Reich Minister of Labor . He sent his employees Friedrich Schmidt and Werner Meyer to the board of directors of the SFB, Friedrich Kramer became managing director, and Hans Kammler was appointed as one of the technical consultants until August 1933 . The foundation's work was supplemented by a manageable office with bookkeeping, registry and a typist.

tasks

The SFB entered into all rights and obligations of the RFG by using the repayment sums of the loans granted by the RFG as well as the accruing interest in the same area of ​​work and financing new investigations there. At the same time, she took on the ongoing evaluation of the research assignments. Similar to the RFG, the areas of work were the financing of technical test settlements (e.g. Spandau Haselhorst ), support in the development of standards and quality regulations, and the financing of publications on building research. Between 1933 and 1941 the "Bibliography of Housing and Settlements", financed by the SFB, was published by Rose von Mangoldt .

resolution

With the transfer of responsibility for housing construction (Section VI of the Reich Labor Ministry) to Reich Housing Commissioner Robert Ley after 1941, the SFB also came under this new responsibility. In 1943, Ley arranged for building research to be merged in his area of ​​responsibility in the German Academy for Housing eV (DAW), which was subordinate to him . The SFB handed over all of its working documents to the DAW, where they were almost completely lost in a bomb attack in November 1943. The foundation itself ceased operations in 1944, and most of its assets were transferred to the DAW.

literature

  • Sigurd Fleckner: Reich Research Society for Economic Efficiency in Building and Housing. 1927-1931 . Aachen 1993.
  • Niels Gutschow : Ordnungswahn: Architects plan in the "Germanized East" 1939–1945 . Birkhäuser, Basel 2001, ISBN 978-3-7643-6390-1 .

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