Werner Lindner

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Eduard Adolf Werner Lindner (born November 8, 1883 in Eisleben , † October 20, 1964 in Hermannsburg ) was a German architect and one of the most important representatives of homeland security in Germany. Like no other, Lindner stands for its entanglement in the ideology of National Socialism .

Life

Lindner studied architecture at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg and in 1911 became Emil Högg's assistant at the chair for spatial art at the Technical University of Dresden . Here he was with a thesis on the Lower Saxony farmhouse in Germany and Holland doctorate . In 1914 he became managing director of the German Federal Homeland Security . In 1933 he officially resigned as managing director, but remained as a "specialist representative" still the programmatic head of the German Federal Homeland Security (since 1937 German Heimatbund ). From National Socialism, which he fundamentally supported, Lindner hoped to provide broader support for the ideas of homeland security.

Lindner had been a member of the NSDAP since the " seizure of power " .

From 1938 he was editor of the magazine Heimatleben . His main commitment during the Nazi era was primarily the fight against all too conspicuous outdoor advertising on buildings and for the so-called desanding of the old towns. During the Second World War, he expanded his activities to the occupied territories, especially in Poland . On behalf of Heinrich Himmler , he has been working on building design guidelines since 1939 for the villages and towns to be "Germanized" in the incorporated areas of Poland. As " Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Volkstum ", Himmler was entrusted with the settlement of so-called ethnic Germans in the areas of Poland annexed in 1939.

After his house in Berlin was destroyed in World War II, Lindner moved to Hermannsburg near Celle . In 1951 he founded the Cemetery and Memorial Working Group, of which he was the managing director until 1959.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • The Lower Saxony farmhouse in Germany and Holland. A contribution to his exploration. Hanover 1912. (Dissertation)
  • Monuments to our warriors. Munich 1915.
  • The engineering buildings in their good design. Berlin 1923.
  • Homeland Security in the New Kingdom. Leipzig 1934.
  • House and yard. Publication series "Deutsches Volksgut" edited. Reichsbund Volkstum und Heimat Berlin, No. 2, 1934.
  • The village. Its maintenance and design. (= The landscape foundations of the German building trade, Volume 1.) Munich 1938.
  • The town. Your maintenance and design. (= The landscape foundations of the German building trade, Volume 2.) Munich 1939.
  • The East. (= The landscape foundations of the German building trade, Volume 3.) Munich 1940.
  • Structure and surroundings. Tubingen 1964.

literature

  • Barbara Banck: Werner Lindner. Industrial modern and regional identity. Dissertation, University of Dortmund 2008. (online as pdf with 73.2 MB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winfried Speitkamp : The administration of history. Preservation of monuments and the state in Germany 1871–1933. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, p. 392.
  2. ↑ The appointment took place in the context of the 40th anniversary of the federal government on May 22, 1949: Honor roll. In: Schwäbisches Heimatbuch 1949. Ed. By Felix Schuster on behalf of the Schwäbisches Heimatbund. Stuttgart [1949], pp. 176-177, p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Lindner, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisleben
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1964
Place of death Hermannsburg