Walter Schüßler (architect)

Walter Schüßler (born July 4, 1906 ; † 1978 ) was a German architect and construction clerk .

Life

Walter Schüßler studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich under Heinrich Tessenow and German Bestelmeyer . After his diploma in 1930 he worked for several years as a trainee lawyer in the Oberpostdirektion Augsburg . From 1932 to 1934 he worked as a freelance architect, often in collaboration with Knidlberger. In 1934 he was appointed government builder ( Assessor ). During National Socialism , he built numerous party and military buildings as an employee of the Air Force's construction department . He spent the period from 1945 to 1947 as a prisoner of war in France.

In the post-war period he initially worked as a private architect, until he was hired in 1951 at the Oberpostdirektion Frankfurt and in 1952 was responsible for design and construction management at the Federal Post Office in Bonn . From 1958 to 1968 he then worked in the Nuremberg Post Office . Schüßler was appointed Chief Postal Director in 1963 and President of the Office in 1967. In 1968 Walter Schüßler retired.

Work (selection)

• Motor vehicle hall in Füssen
• Single family home in Munich
• Competition for the Ramersdorf model estate (1st prize)
• Competition for the cemetery chapel in Erding (with Knidlberger)
• Competition House of Labor. (with Jäger and Knidlberger) (1934)
• Memorial of the NSDAP (with Knidlberger)
• Commercial Aviation School at Giebelstadt Air Base
• Luftgaukommando Munich (with German Bestelmeyer )
• Wertheim am Main airfield
• Airfields in France , Holland and Belgium
• Federal Post Ministry in Bonn (1952)

literature

• Karl-Heinz Decker: History of the Giebelstadt Air Base 1933-1945. Verlag JH Röll, Dettelbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-89754-357-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Decker: History of the air base Giebelstadt. Pp. 7-11.