Th. Siegfried A. Morschel

Th. Siegfried A. Morschel (also Theodor Siegfried Morschel) (born December 3, 1920 in Düsseldorf , † October 27, 2002 in Bremen ) was a German architect and building contractor .

biography

Morschel studied architecture at the Wuppertal State Building School and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . At the beginning of the Second World War he broke off his studies and in 1940 worked at Focke-Wulf-Flugzeugbau in Bremen. He supervised the construction of an aircraft factory in Poland and from 1944 in Kassel.

From around 1946 he worked as an architect primarily for Stadtwerke Bremen and was involved in the reconstruction of the Weserwehr hydropower plant and the Hastedt power plant . Morschel then formed an architectural community with Gustav A. Henke and Fred Hodde. At the beginning of the 1950s, this community planned and built residential buildings on Bismarckstrasse and Staderstrasse in the eastern suburbs and on Kamphoferdamm in Woltmershausen . According to his plans, a six-story building for the municipal utilities was built on Schlachthofstrasse in 1952.

Morschel founded the Bremer Bau-Union , which included many residential buildings in Huchting , Schwachhausen (Depkenstraße 1955, apartment high-rise Emmastraße, Heinstraße, Klattenstraße), Vahr (Paul-Singer-Schule), Horn-Lehe (development plans, apartment buildings, Bergiusstraße school), Oberneuland ( Rilkeweg) and in other places. The office also designed and designed many residential buildings for GEWOBA . a. in Huchting . From 1957, the company was based in the Simo office building at Am Wall 113, which he had planned , next to the public utility switchboard he designed.

A residential high-rise in Neu-Schwachhausen designed by Morschel together with Henke and Hodde and built in 1964 , which was intended as the “recognizable center” of the district and met with considerable resistance from the population.

In the area of ​​the station suburb, Morschel was involved with Max Säum in the planning and implementation of the Tivoli high-rise (1961) and the Siemens high-rise (1962) in the 1960s . Other houses and a. in habenhausen originate from his plans. A design (around 1961) for a skyscraper on Hillmannplatz (center) was not implemented after protests. Other buildings in which he was involved include the office building of the education authority on Rembertiring (center), the Horten department store (old town 1972), a residential and commercial building on Schüsselkorb (formerly Barlage ), Karstadt department store in Delmenhorst (around 1975), a commercial building on Dobben, a high-rise office / residential building on Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse (center, around 1973, formerly Bongartz ), the business building in Bonehauerstrasse (center, design by Rainer Morschel and Martin Pikat, around 1975) and a multi-storey car park (center). Morschel's planning cooperative later resided in Huchting, Flämische Strasse . It was run by his daughter.

Morschel wanted the so-called Mozart route to be realized through the Ostertor district as part of an inner-city tangent quadrangle for cars. He wrote: "Nevertheless, a group of hot-headed leftists managed to persuade the SPD parliamentary group that the Ostertorviertel, thought to be the cheerful 'Quartier Latin', would be crushed and condemned to die by the 'monster Mozarttrasse'." In fact, this route planning, which was solely focused on road traffic, was prevented and thereby saved the quarter from destruction.

In the affair surrounding the SPD citizenship parliamentary group chairman Richard Boljahn in the 1960s, Morschel also came into the crosshairs of investigations and the press. In 1970, Der Spiegel wrote: "The financiers, the broker Wilhelm Lohmann and the building contractor Siegfried Morschel, had saved the Boljahnsche Bremer Purchasing Company (BEG) from bankruptcy with a donation of 100,000 marks in 1964 and thus helped it to elegantly liquidate." Der Spiegel says: “Boljahn's friends are influential: the prominent architect Siegfried Morschel is the director of Bremer Hochbau GmbH and Union-Treuhand GmbH. The real estate agent Willy Lohmann (nickname: 'Millions Willy') [...] "

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Günther Obitz: Planning, building, managing. 25 years of the Bremer Bau-Union 1940–1980. Bremen 1981, DNB 958567832 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ page on Neu-Schwachhausen in the architecture guide bremen
2. ↑ Morschel: Now what? In: planning, building, managing. Bremen 1981, p. 115.
3. ↑ Recruit again . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1970, p. 71 ( Online - Jan. 12, 1970 ).
4. ↑ Wrong friends . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1968, p. 46 ( Online - Feb. 5, 1968 ).