Titus Taeschner

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Titus Taeschner (born January 30, 1905 in Altona ; † November 9, 1997 in Wolfsburg ) was a German architect who played a key role in the construction of the city of Wolfsburg both during the Nazi era and in the post-war period .

Life

Taeschner's father was the chief engineer and science fiction author Titus Taeschner (1869–1940).

Houses built in 1942 on today's Friedrich-Ebert-Straße

Titus Taeschner attended schools in Munich, Mannheim, Hamburg and Stettin . From 1925 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where he received his doctorate. Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer was one of his college friends . Taeschner became deputy to Peter Kollers , who headed the town planning office and was responsible for the planning and construction of the town of KdF-Wagen near Fallersleben, which was founded in 1938 . Taeschner himself led the Building Department and designed together with Koller, the first settlements of the city, including the Homeland Security style settlement Steimker mountain under since the 1980s listed building stands, and several streets in today's urban core. He was the first technical director of the Neuland housing association founded in 1938 .

Wolfsburg town hall

Taeschner started his own business as an architect after the end of the war; Peter Koller was employed in Taeschner's office until 1948 before he also started his own business. Taeschner designed numerous other multi-family houses in the fast growing city of Wolfsburg. In 1954 he won the architectural competition to build the Wolfsburg town hall , which was inaugurated in 1958. In the years that followed, he designed other buildings in Wolfsburg city center, including what was then the local court and the Piazetta-Eck. In 1986 Taeschner lived in Wolfsburg.

Works in the city of the KdF car near Fallersleben / Wolfsburg

Before 1945

The current street names are given.

  • Steimker Berg settlement , 1938–1941 (with Peter Koller)
  • Ensemble Heinrich-Heine-Straße 1–55, 1941 (with Peter Koller)
  • Ensemble on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße, 1942 (with Peter Koller)
  • Ensemble on Goethestrasse, 1941 (with Peter Koller), today Piazza Italia
  • Ensemble on Schillerstraße, 1941 (with Peter Koller)
  • Bebelstrasse and Rathenauplan residential courtyards, 1942 (with Peter Koller)
  • Row houses on the Großer Schillerteich , 1942 (with Peter Koller)

post war period

  • Taeschner Plan , 1945, first urban planning after the war in the area of ​​today's city districts Stadtmitte , Rothenfelde , Schillerteich , Steimker Berg, Köhlerberg , Klieversberg (without the city crown, which was not implemented) and Hohenstein .
  • Apartment buildings Laagbergstrasse 76–80, 1954
  • Town hall , 1955–1958
  • Imperial cinema and event building, 1956
  • Wohltberg School, 1957
  • Former district court, 1958 (today City Hall C)
  • Piazetta building, 1959 (today Town Hall E)
  • Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium , 1959
  • Apartment buildings on Eckernweg, 1959
  • Theater Wolfsburg (design, 3rd place), 1965 (with Richard Rudolf Gerdes and Friedrich Spengelin )
  • "Burg" high-rise group, Detmerode , 1968 (overall planning)
  • Community Center Bonhoeffer, Westhagen , 1975 (with Richard Rudolf Gerdes)

Literary works

  • The Brunswick half-timbered house. E. Appelhans & Comp., Braunschweig 1935.

literature

  • Marcel Glaser, Alexander Kraus: Democratic building out of a totalitarian spirit? Wolfsburg City Hall and its architect Titus Taeschner (1905–1997). In: The archive. Newspaper for Wolfsburg City History 1 (2016), 2, pp. 1–4.
  • Nicole Froberg: “A man of speech and pen”. Peter Koller, architect and urban planner of Wolfsburg. Series: Texts on the history of Wolfsburg, 31. City of Wolfsburg, 2007 (City Archives), pp. 34–35.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ^ Titus Taeschner: The Braunschweigische half-timbered house. E. Appelhans & Comp., Braunschweig 1935. Excerpts as digital copies
  3. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 34.
  4. ↑ memories of Siegfried Trogisch (PDF), accessed on February 26, 2015
  5. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 36-42.
  6. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 42.
  7. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 47.
  8. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 43-46.
  9. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 48-49.
  10. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 46.
  11. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 48.
  12. ↑ Christian Horst: PARK [LANDSCHAFT PLATZ, master's thesis, creative and functional reorganization of the VW factory car park on the Mittelland Canal in Wolfsburg, taking into account traffic and landscape architecture aspects. PDF page 26] (PDF), accessed on February 26, 2015
  13. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 70-71.
  14. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 68-69.
  15. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 78.
  16. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 80-81.
  17. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 73.
  18. ↑ a b Architecture in Wolfsburg ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  19. ↑ Klieversberg-Gymnasium ready for occupancy. Wolfsburg News of March 20, 1959
  20. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 89.
  21. ^ Kathrin Barthmann, Rocco Curti, Nicole Froberg: Hans Scharouns Theater for Wolfsburg 1973–2013. Jovis, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86859-259-7 , p. 19.
  22. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 124-125.
personal data
SURNAME Taeschner, Titus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1997
Place of death Wolfsburg