Theodor Suhnel

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Theodor Suhnel (born January 16, 1886 in Oberzetzscha (now part of Altenburg ), Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg , † May 30, 1965 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German architect .

Life

Suhnel completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and at the same time attended the Altenburg School of Applied Arts , after which he studied architecture at the Herzoglich Braunschweigische Baugewerkschule Holzminden . After his first employment (including at the building authority of the city of Gelsenkirchen ), he attended the Technical University of Dresden for about three semesters as an intern ( guest student ) .

In 1910 he got a job at the municipal building department in Mülheim an der Ruhr, but was soon able to get his first private contracts there. In 1913 he gave up the job and worked as a freelancer from then on. Suhnel was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), which was transferred to the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in 1934 .

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Buildings and designs

In 1913 he became a member of the Rheno-Marchia Münster fraternity , which in 1960 became part of the fraternity of the Pflüger Halle in Münster . In 1913, as an architect, he was responsible for the expansion and renovation of the connecting house . From 1914 he converted the ruins of the Hausmann Tower in Bad Frankenhausen am Kyffhäuser into a memorial for the fallen federal brothers for the General German Burschenbund . The memorial was completely destroyed after 1945.

Portal of the Mülheim main cemetery

An early success with which Suhnel established himself as an architect in Mülheim was his competition design for the high-rise buildings on the Mülheim main cemetery in 1915; the buildings at the cemetery entrance were only erected after the end of the war and are now a listed building . (His grave is also in this cemetery.)

His most important projects include large housing developments that were groundbreaking for the period after the First World War , such as the Heimaterde settlement in Mülheim an der Ruhr, the Dransfeld residential complex and the Hirtsiefer settlement in Essen- West, as well as a factory settlement for the Westphalian wire industry in Hamm (Westphalia) .

In 1929 in Münster he was commissioned to convert the former “Café am Aasee” into a university canteen - after several renovations, it has been retained in this function to this day. In 1931 generous plans were made for a striking university forum between the Tormin Bridge and the recently completed university clinics, but these remained unrealized. Elements of this were taken up again in 1938 in plans for a party forum as part of the redesign of a district capital, Münster.

From 1943 he built barracks for foreign workers on behalf of the Reich Ministry Speer - Armaments Development Department. One of the largest camps planned by him would have been the Lintorf II camp (today's rehabilitation facility "Maria in der Drucht") in the south of Duisburg for around 2500 foreign workers, which he created for Deutsche Eisenwerke AG , Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte Mülheim department . However, this was not completed by the end of the war.

In addition, he carried out numerous other projects in Mülheim (e.g. on the Kirchbergshöhe, in the grammar school district and on Roeschstraße), but also built elsewhere, e.g. B. in Wülfrath, in Freudenstadt and in the Mark Brandenburg.

Fonts

  • University forum with development of the Aa-See area, Münster i. W. Paul Grote Verlag, Mülheim an der Ruhr / Berlin 1931.

Honors

In 1930 Suhnel was made an honorary citizen of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster , for the design of the Aasee site with three large student houses.

In 1980, Theodor-Suhnel-Strasse in Mülheim an der Ruhr was named after him.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 681-682.
  • Kurt Wilhelm-Kästner: Theodor Suhnel. (= Neue Werkkunst .) FE Hübsch, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1929.
  • Manfred Rasch : Building history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research 1912–1945. In: Journal of the Mülheim ad Ruhr history association , issue 65 (1993).

Web links

Commons : Theodor Suhnel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jörg Niemer: The student house on the Aasee planning a university town. In: From Domplatz to the castle. The building history of the University of Münster from its foundation to the completion of the reconstruction after the Second World War. 2010, pp. 132-143.
  2. ^ Sylvaine Hänsel, Stefan Rethfeld: Architecture Guide Münster. Berlin 2008, p. 24.
  3. ↑ City Archives Duisburg, signature 600-4044 / City Archives Lunen, signature NA60 00/31
personal data
SURNAME Suhnel, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberzetzscha , Saxony-Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1965
Place of death Mülheim an der Ruhr