Theodor Brannekamper

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Theodor "Theo" Brannekämper (born September 22, 1900 in Munich ; † January 5, 1989 ) was a German civil engineer and architect .

Life

Brannekämper studied civil engineering at the TH Munich and was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD. In 1934 he started his own business with a building construction and foundation engineering company. During the Nazi era , he was employed as a building contractor in the Todt Organization's construction team in France and Russia.

Theo Brannekämper was a building contractor and cathedral master builder in Munich after the end of World War II and was heavily involved in the reconstruction of the city.

He was considered an expert in soil mechanics and difficult foundations . He was involved in numerous building projects in Bavaria, especially Munich, such as the stabilization of the tower of the Munich Theatinerkirche , the reconstruction of the Munich Frauenkirche , the National Theater in Munich , Fürstenried Castle and the Maximilianeum or the Würzburg Cathedral .

In 1959 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Canali and invested in Cologne Cathedral on December 5, 1959 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the Order.

His grandson is the architect and politician Robert Brannekämper .

Honors

Fonts

  • The foundation structures and the groundwater conditions in the main and auxiliary buildings of the Ansbach Castle , Staatl. Building Department Munich 1966
  • together with Karl Abenthum, Karl Gustav Fellerer: The Munich Liebfrauendom after its restoration , Verlag Keller & Burkardt 1978

literature

  • 50 years of the Brannekämper construction company. Festschrift - review of 50 years of Theo Brannekämper's life's work - appraisal and constructive renovation of destroyed buildings (Liebfrauendom, Maximilianeum, Michealshofkirche, Theatinerkirche, Army Museum, Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, Künstlerhaus Munich, Diana Temple, Feldherrnhalle, Monopteros, Nymphenburg Palace, etc.) , Munich 1984
  • Who is who ?: Das Deutsche who's who 1974, Volume 18, Page 110

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift , Volume 57, M. Huber Verlag 2006, page 299
  2. ↑ Treatises, Edition 120 , Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical and natural science class, CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1965, p. 6 ff.
  3. ↑ Heinz Staudinger: Weilheimer Schulgeschichten 1939-1952, Volume 2: 1950-1952 , 2013, pp. 85 f.
  4. ↑ Georg Schwaiger, Hans Ramisch: Monachium sacrum: Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the Metropolitan Church to Our Lady in Munich, Volume 2 , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1994, p. 181 ff.
  5. ^ Richard Schömig: Ecclesia cathedralis: der Dom zu Würzburg , Echter-Verlag, 1967, p. 33 ff.
  6. ↑ Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany  in the German Digital Library , accessed on January 13, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Brannekämper, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brannekämper, Theo (first name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1989