Wilfried Stallknecht

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wilfried Stallknecht

Wilfried Stallknecht (born August 12, 1928 in Geringswalde ; † December 22, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German architect , urban planner and furniture designer. His main area of ​​work from 1959 to 1973 in the GDR Building Academy was the co-development of standardized large-panel apartment buildings . From 1974 to 1984 Stallknecht was responsible for urban development in Bernau near Berlin .

life and work

Wilfried Stallknecht's father bought a closed factory in Geringswalde in 1932. He produced clocks and tables on a larger scale in the halls. The mother was an accountant. Wilfried began an apprenticeship as a carpenter in his father's furniture factory . In 1944/1945 he had to work as an anti-aircraft helper . After the Second World War , the family was expropriated, but the son was allowed to finish his apprenticeship in the now state- owned company Tischfabrik Geringswalde . In 1949 there was a compulsory obligation to mine uranium ore at SDAG Wismut . He then went to Erfurt and studied interior design at the master school for applied arts (today's Erfurt School of Applied Arts ) from 1949 to 1952 . In 1951 Stallknecht acquired the master craftsman's certificate from the carpenter's guild. After successfully completing his degree, he got a job at VEB Projektierung Berlin (from 1953 Institute for Typing ). His team planned the interior of representative GDR buildings, including the “Wilhelm Pieck” youth college on Lake Bogensee . From that time on, Wilfried Stallknecht was also interested in the purely architectural and designed a series of homes in 1954 . In retrospect, he referred to the basic type as a “shot against the (incipient) typification”. Nevertheless some of this house could be rebuilt. The company refused to take over into series production because each house had different window sizes and the room layout was too individual. However, this resulted in the order for a series of private homes, which was distributed in 1958 under the name EW 58 . This type has been built around 500,000 times throughout the GDR. In 1959, Stallknecht became a research assistant for Hermann Henselmann at the GDR Building Academy. The new focus of his collaboration was on industrial construction , with the help of which many families should quickly find new living space. Together with the architects Achim Felz and Herbert Kuschy , he developed the P 2 panel construction . For the first test building, which in the district of Berlin-Fennpfuhl was set up and since the 1980s listed building stands, he had particular the hatch designed between the kitchen and living room. Stallknecht was involved in the continuous further developments of the P 2 building type in various specialist institutes of the Bauakademie. The possibility of making curves in the P2 residential wing, which was first implemented in the residential queues on the former Leninplatz, goes back to his idea . Later he developed the type P 3 together with Achim Felz. A study prepared at the same time, Plattenbau 69 , became the basis for the large-scale housing series 70 (WBS 70) .

In the Art Academy Berlin-Weissensee Wilfried groom had completed further studies architecture and acquired in 1973 with the work requirements of the developed socialist society in housing in the GDR his diploma. In 1978 he completed a dissertation at the Bauakademie on the subject of building concepts using the prefabricated construction method for the redesign of inner-city living areas and was awarded the title of Dr.-Ing. As a result, he also held courses at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction , for example . In addition , Stallknecht qualified as a professor with the title Changeability of Spaces in Industrial Housing in the GDR .

In 1974 Stallknecht accepted the offer of the city administration of Bernau near Berlin to head the city planning office. Under his responsibility, which lasted until 1984, a large part of the historic old town was torn down and replaced by new buildings made of prefabricated panels. In addition, he realized the Café am Pulverturm , the Steintor restaurant and handicapped-accessible residential complexes made of precast concrete parts. Stallknecht's training as a carpenter meant that he was always involved in interior design and furnishings. In 1968 he invented a convertible armchair - lounger - ottoman combination, called Selio , for which he is still looking for a producer (as of 2013). He helped develop the park and ride system, which was advertised in the GDR as early as 1988 and originally called Parking + Travel . Based on this idea, such a system was created at the Bernau-Friedenstal train station .

Even after retiring from professional life in 1984, Wilfried Stallknecht remained active. He took part in symposia , worked as a specialist advisor in the Bernau city administration, and planned and implemented a passive house in 1998 . He filed and files patents . By 2013 there were more than 20, including one for a special construction, the slide-tilt method . This provides for a residential building to be completed in a horizontal position, which is then brought into its final vertical position using technology. Similar to chimney construction, this would result in savings in production and thus cost reductions. Stallknecht is currently working with a Dresden housing association to retrofit balcony parapets or facade elements with solar cells. The installation of small wind turbines on higher residential areas is also being considered.

Wilfried Stallknecht lived with his family in the Berlin district of Fennpfuhl in a prefabricated apartment.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries of Wilfried Stallknecht | Märkische online newspaper mourning portal. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Danuta Schmidt: Design for life. In: Neues Deutschland , August 12, 2013
  3. ↑ a b c d exhibition catalog (pdf; 57.1 MB)
  4. ↑ a b interview film
personal data
SURNAME Groom, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and furniture designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Geringswalde
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 2019
Place of death Berlin