Wilhelm Eduard Brodtbeck
Wilhelm Eduard Brodtbeck (born September 25, 1873 in Liestal ; † April 12, 1957 ) was a Swiss architect and entrepreneur.
biography
Wilhelm Eduard, son of Wilhelm Senior (architect and cement manufacturer) and Susanne Karoline Spinnler, grew up in Liestal.
Wilhelm Brodtbeck first attended schools in Liestal and later in Basel. He completed his architecture studies at the Technical University in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe . After various study trips to Germany, Holland, Austria, Italy and France, Brodtbeck worked in Lausanne.
Wilhelm Brodtbeck founded his architecture office in Liestal in 1901. As a young architect, he realized a wide variety of residential buildings. Several school houses and industrial buildings were added later.
He married Susanna Elisabeth Buess von Wenslingen in 1904.
From 1921 he ran the architecture office "W. Brodtbeck & Fr. Bohny Arch." Together with his new partner Fritz Bohny. In 1951, Rolf Georg Otto took over the renowned architecture office at the invitation of Brodtbeck. The two architects in the founding phase are retiring for reasons of age. Today the office operates under the name of Otto Partner Architects .
Parallel to his work as an architect, Wilhelm Eduard Brodtbeck was also a partner in his father's cement factory. Until his death in 1957, Wilhelm Eduard Brodtbeck remained chairman of the board of directors of the cement factory Wilhelm Brodtbeck AG.
buildings
The Brodtbeck architectural office was able to carry out two important assignments in the city of Basel in consortia. First the city casino (1937–1941) and the administration building for the chemical company Sandoz (today Novartis AG, building 200). The Rotackerschulhaus in Liestal (Switzerland's cultural asset of regional importance), the cantonal bank in Binningen , the mill with small power station in Lausen BL (1923) and the salt works in Schweizerhalle near Muttenz all come from Brodtbeck's architectural office . In addition, there is the Wasserhaus residential colony (1920/21) in the Neue Welt quarter in Münchenstein .
additional
Wilhelm Brodtbeck was on the Liestal community commission for 20 years and was a member of the board of the Basel homeland security.
Fonts
Wilhelm Brodtbeck also wrote poems, festivals and prose.
- Young blood. Poems 1899.
- D property tax. Time images from the recent past. Festival at the Kantonalschützenfest both Basels in Liestal 1923
literature
- Max Schneider: Architect Wilhelm Brodtbeck-Buess , 1873 to 1957, in: Baselbieter Heimatblätter 1978, Heft 2, 304
- Martin Steinmann: Brodtbeck, Wilhelm Eduard. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds): Architects Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 96
- Walter Rüdisühli: Wilhelm Brodtbeck-Buess . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 75 , no. 26 . W. Jegher, Zurich 1957, p. 423 f . ( online ).
Web links
- Wilhelm Eduard Brodtbeck , in: Personal Lexicon of the Canton of Basel-Country
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brodtbeck, Wilhelm Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brodtbeck-Buess, Wilhelm Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liestal |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1957 |
| Place of death | Liestal |