Walter Schlempp

Walter Schlempp (born June 3, 1905 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † October 30, 1979 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German architect .

Live and act

Schlempp was the son of the hotel owner Gustav Schlempp and Lina Schlempp, née Nagel. He became a member of the NS Student Union and joined the NSDAP in 1931 . Between 1932 and 1934 he worked as a government building manager and then went into business for himself as an architect.

Engineering office in the Third Reich

Walter Schlempp founded his own engineering office named after him in 1934, in which the later Federal President Heinrich Lübke , who became Schlempp's deputy in 1944, also worked. Schlempp took part in the National Socialist project for the construction of the " World Capital Germania ", which from 1935 was headed by Albert Speer and aimed at the "redesign of the Reich capital". In the years 1938 to 1942, Schlempp planned the construction of the building for the German Community Day , today's Ernst-Reuter-Haus in Berlin as part of this project . In doing so, "with the permission of the Führer", the Hanoverian city planning officer Karl Elkart , to whom the facade design is attributed, was placed at his side. The building was intended to be part of Berlin's east-west axis. Its shape is reminiscent of the neoclassical style that determined National Socialist architecture and is characterized by stringent symmetry and monumentality.

In Peenemünde , the Schlempp construction group of the Schlempp engineering office, together with the Todt organization, had the most important task of expanding the army research facility and the air force testing facility, with Heinrich Lübke , Walter Schlempp's deputy , being in charge of construction management .

The office took part in the Jägerstab project of the Reich Aviation Ministry . From 1944 onwards, the aim was to promote the mass production of armaments during the war: Among other things, a forced labor camp in Wolmirsleben and several concentration camps or subcamps were established. a. in Neu- Staßfurt , in Hadmersleben as well as in Leau and Plömnitz near Bernburg and in 1944 the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp - planned and built.

The engineering office Walter Schlempp was responsible for the expansion and renovation of the Marie shaft of the U-relocation Bulldogge . It organized the reconstruction and expansion of the Marie shaft, the accommodation of the aviation equipment factory in Hakenfelde and the necessary reconstruction of the shaft tube and conveyor system.

In the last two years of the war, the Schlempp engineering office was an agency of the special commissioner of the Reich Aviation Ministry for aviation damage repair in the aviation industry . It had its seat temporarily in Hadmersleben and Bernburg and was u. a. responsible for the expansion of the Bartensleben plant and the expansion and reconstruction of the Marie shaft .

After the Second World War, the office was closed. The processing office was located in Höxter (Markt 8) in 1946 , where the engineers Heinrich Lübke and Rudolf Wolters were based.

Further life

Walter Schlempp later worked with Werner Hebebrand and Kurt Freiwald in an architecture office in Frankfurt (Main). Schlempp and others later designed the University of Munich Clinic in Großhadern . The clinic also has a certain massiveness, but also uses modern material and contains elements of a modern design language. Other well-known buildings are the Paracelsus Clinic in Marl and the hospital for sports injuries in Lüdenscheid-Hellersen, which was built in 1966 . His younger brother Hans Schlempp was the director of the Hessian district assembly.

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  Sports clinic in Lüdenscheid-Hellersen, main building

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  Großhadern Clinic

Awards

In November 1954, two projects in Frankfurt am Main were recognized as "exemplary buildings in Hesse": a nine-storey residential building Trierische Gasse - corner of An der Paulskirche and a rental building in Saalburgallee - Kettelerallee 1, 2, 3 and 4. The jury was from the Association of German Architects and the Hessian Minister of Finance . The following architects belonged to it: Werner Hebebrand , Konrad Rühl , Sep Ruf and Ernst Zinsser . Schlempp realized the buildings together with Werner Hebebrand.

literature

• Matthias Donath : Architecture in Berlin 1933–1945. A city guide. 2nd, revised edition. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936872-26-2 , p. 112f.
• Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Building in National Socialism. Bavaria 1933–1945. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7814-0360-2 .
• Joachim Petsch: Art in the Third Reich. Architecture, sculpture, painting. Vista Point, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-88973-001-9 .

Web links

• Schlempps is entered in the Berlin State Monument List as the architect of the Ernst Reuter House

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annette Rosskopf: Friedrich Karl Kaul. Lawyer in divided Germany (1906–1981) (= Berlin legal university publications. Fundamentals of law. Vol. 19). Berlin-Verlag Spitz et al., Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8305-0130-7 , p. 319 (also: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 2000).
2. ↑ See entry in the list of monuments in Berlin (see link)
3. ↑ Monthly booklets for architecture and urban planning. Vol. 24, No. 9, 1940, ZDB -ID 536586-7 , p. 227.
4. ^ The V2 and the German, Russian and American Rocket Program , Claus Reuter, SR Research & Publishing, 2nd ed. 2000, ISBN 1894643054
5. ↑ Award for exemplary buildings in the state of Hesse on November 6, 1954 . In: The Hessian Minister of Finance (Hrsg.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1955 no. 4 , p. 70 , point 75 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.6 MB ]).