Walter Kratz

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Walter Kratz (born February 25, 1899 in Vienna , † September 21, 1957 in Bonn ) was an Austrian architect who lived and worked in Germany .

Life

Walter Kratz, son of a publisher, grew up in Berlin . In 1916 he began his architectural training in the studio of his uncle Hermann Muthesius . From 1917 until the end of the war, he took part in the First World War as a soldier . He later worked in the office of the architect Georg Steinmetz .

The “Brigade May” in the Soviet Union, 1931

From 1923 to 1927 he worked for his cousin Theo Effenberger in Breslau and then as an employee of Ernst May in the Frankfurt building construction and settlement office, where he met Eugen Blanck . Kratz accompanied May from 1930 to 1932 as a member of the so-called "Brigade May" in the Soviet Union .

He then worked as a freelance architect in Berlin. In 1933/1934 he won the DAF “House of Labor” competition. He then worked for Julius Schulte-Frohlinde until June 1941 as head of the teaching department for housing and settlement construction, planning HJ homes, schools, apartment buildings and urban development projects . From 1937 he worked with the writer Lotte Tiedemann .

In 1941 he went to Munich , where he planned housing developments on behalf of Hermann Giesler until 1945 and planned several bunkers with Fritz Norkauer and Herbert Landauer . Because of the Second World War , the construction office was gradually relocated to Ordensburg Sonthofen from 1943 to August 1944 .

After the end of the war, he went to Lauterbach in Hesse at the beginning of 1946 , where he planned a school town on behalf of the Hessian Ministry of Culture . From 1947 to 1954 he was co-editor of the trade journal baukunst und werkform together with Alfons Leitl . During this time he contacted his former colleague Blanck again. He brought Kratz into a joint office in Bonn-Oberkassel in the course of planning the capital in June 1949 . In 1954, Blanck left the office because of his planning for the Cologne Police Headquarters .

Publications

  • with Alfons Leitl: The book of one's own house. With sketches, plans and completed buildings by the architect Walter Kratz. Ullstein, Berlin 1937.
  • with Julius Schulte-Frohlinde: The East. The landscape foundations of the German building trade. Munich 1940.
  • with Lotte Tiedemann: The little house. Gustav Mandt, Lauterbach (Hesse) 1949.
  • with Lotte Tiedemann: How do I build my house? Gustav Mandt, Lauterbach (Hesse) 1949.

Web links

Commons : Walter Kratz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Marco Kieser: Zettelkasten: Architects in the 20th century: Walter Kratz (1899-1957) , accessed on May 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Walter Kratz , Institute for Foreign Relations, as of July 25, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Scratch, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1957
Place of death Bonn