Theo Pabst

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Theo Pabst
Kaufhof am Stachus, 1950/1951, first new department store in Munich after the Second World War
Renaissance tower of the Herzog-Max-Burg, which was destroyed in the Second World War

Theo Pabst (born January 14, 1905 in Passau , † October 4, 1979 in Munich ), actually Theodor Pabst , was a German architect , construction officer and university professor .

Life

Theo Pabst was born in Passau in 1905 as the son of the Royal Bavarian Railway Geometer Theodor Pabst and his wife. In 1910 the father was transferred to Regensburg, where Pabst experienced the First World War and the post-war period. In 1921 the family moved to Munich. Theo Pabst began studying architecture at the Technical University of Munich in the winter semester of 1924. In his memoirs he particularly emphasizes the lessons with Theodor Fischer and German Bestelmeyer . In 1929 he passed his main diploma examination with the result "very well passed". Pabst successfully took part in competitions while still a student. He took first place in the Isarhöhe settlement competition, and took second and third places in other competitions. After completing his studies, he worked as a construction referendar at the Oberpostdirektion Munich under senior building officer Franz Holzhammer . There he passed the Great State Examination in 1931 (government architect). Since he could not find a job, he moved to the office of his fellow student Albert Heinrich Steiner in Zurich. In 1933 he received an order for a post office facility in Forchheim.

On May 1, 1933, Pabst joined the NSDAP , allegedly to u. a. being able to take part in competitions and improve one's chances of getting employment. He was also NSDAP caretaker and block helper of the National Socialist People's Welfare. From 1935 he was a municipal building officer with the Munich local building commission . During this “uneventful time” he took part in competitions in his free time. From 1939 to 1945 he was drafted several times for military service. From 1941 to 1945 he was the construction officer of the Air Force with major rank in Russia. In his memoirs, Pabst is silent about his precise activities as a construction officer for the Air Force. After four years of military service, he returned to Munich in the early summer of 1945 and opened his own architectural office. According to his own statements, Pabst was not affected by the denazification. In the denazification process, he was classified as a follower.

In 1948, on the recommendation of Ernst Neufert, he was initially appointed to the professorship for architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt . He was supposed to succeed Rudolf Geil , who had been dismissed from civil service in October 1945. After a controversial process, Pabst finally received the formal call on June 17, 1949. The chair for building construction was later named drafting and building construction . Pabst taught at the TH Darmstadt until 1972. At this point in time he left the university prematurely after being worn down by the arguments with the students.

During his work as a professor at the TH Darmstadt, he was twice dean of the Faculty of Architecture.

His most important works include the Kaufhof am Stachus , the first Munich department store to be built after the end of the war , and the Neue Maxburg judicial building in Munich, which was built together with Sep Ruf and is one of the most successful examples of a combination of traditional building remains (the Renaissance tower ) with an openly visible, but yet light and elegant-looking reinforced concrete skeleton applies.

After leaving the TH Darmstadt in 1972, Pabst sold his house and moved to Ottobrunn. Theo Pabst died in Munich in October 1979.

plant

Executed buildings

Competitions

  • 1927: Settlement on the Großhesseloher Bridge, Munich
  • 1927: Isarhöhe settlement (1st prize)
  • 1927: Harlaching Garden City (shortlisted)
  • 1928: Indoor swimming pool in Munich-North (with cand.arch.Willy Appel, purchase)
  • 1928: Memmingen Hospital (with Karl Erdmannsdorffer and Fritz Schleifer, 2nd prize)
  • 1928: Trudering settlement (1st and 2nd prize)
  • 1931: New Munich Glass Palace (3rd prize)
  • 1932/1933: Art Exhibition Building, Munich (3rd Prize)
  • 1933: NS model settlement Ramersdorf near Munich (with Christoph Miller )
  • 1934: Reichsführer School of the NSDAP, Neu-Grünwald near Munich (with Christoph Miller ; 2nd group, 500 Reichsmarks)
  • 1934: Schlageter-Forum Düsseldorf (purchase)
  • 1935: Protestant Church, Munich-Bogenhausen (3rd prize)
  • 1935: Moltkeplatz, Regensburg (3rd prize)
  • 1936: Sparkasse im Tal, Munich (1st prize, 1,000 Reichsmarks)
  • 1936: Schoolhouse, Allach near Munich (with Luitpold Hager; purchase)
  • 1936/1937: State Finance Office Munich, Meiserstraße 2 / Sophienstraße 6 (1st prize)
  • 1938: University city Berlin (with Johannes Ludwig)
  • 1938: House of the NSDAP, Regensburg (with Raimund Thoma; 1st prize)
  • 1938/1939: House of the spa guest, Wildbad (with Johannes Ludwig; purchase)
  • 1939: New central station in Munich
  • 1940: Children's hospital , Leipzig (with Johannes Ludwig; purchase, 5,500 Reichsmarks)
  • 1946/1947: Sparkasse Würzburg (1st prize)
  • 1948: Burgplatz, Duisburg (with Albert Heildinger)
  • 1948: Fulda Cathedral Square
  • 1948: Kürschnerhof, Würzburg (with Heichlinger; purchase)
  • 1950: Merck-Haus, Rheinstrasse 7 and 9 in Darmstadt (with Christoph Miller 1st prize)
  • 1951: Quellengebiet, Wiesbaden (with Hubert Pinand ; 1st prize)
  • 1952: Maxburg Munich (1st and 2nd prize)
  • 1953: Extension of the TH Darmstadt , Darmstadt (1st prize)

literature

Web links

Commons : Theo Pabst  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Regina Stephan: Theo Pabst. Research project since WS 2004/05. In: Website of the architecture department at TU Darmstadt. Archived from the original on June 11, 2007 ; accessed on January 27, 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theo Pabst: My life. An unpretentious report over 74 years. Ottobrunn 1979. In: Theo Pabst. An architect's life. Copy of Theo Pabst's memoirs by Jana Heidacker, seminar paper at the TU Darmstadt, Department of Architecture, Chair of the History and Theory of Architecture, Winter Semester 2004/2005, there page 20f.
personal data
SURNAME Pabst, Theo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pabst, Theodor (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, construction officer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1979
Place of death Munich