Wilhelm Hermann Jost

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Wilhelm Jost (born February 28, 1887 in Zwickau , † August 15, 1948 in Wolsker Lazarett near Saratow ( Soviet Union ); full name: Wilhelm Hermann Jost ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Jost studied from 1906 to 1910 at the Technical University of Dresden and at the Technical University of Stuttgart a . a. with Paul Schmitthenner . He later worked in various architectural offices in Stuttgart , creating designs for single-family houses, public buildings and numerous church buildings in the greater Stuttgart area. He became an assistant and lecturer at the Technical University of Stuttgart under Schmitthenner. From 1926 he taught there as a professor. Since 1920 the (glass) painter Lydia Jost-Schäfer was his wife. From 1925 to 1926 Jost worked as a building expert for the Württemberg Association for Christian Art .

From around 1926/1927 he worked in parallel in Dresden and Stuttgart. He created designs for public buildings (schools), churches, villas and single-family houses. From 1928 to 1945 Jost was professor for building theory at the Technical University of Dresden. During this period he worked u. a. in projects within the garden city of Hellerau near Dresden.

Wilhelm Jost's Dresden house built in 1936 on Loschwitzer Knoopstrasse

In September 1932 Jost joined the NSDAP . In 1933 he also joined the SA . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . From 1937 to 1945 Jost was rector of the Technical University of Dresden. From 1943 to 1945 he also worked as a part-time founding rector of the Technical University of Linz . In 1944/1945 he was a member of the leadership of the Nazi lecturers' association.

Jost was arrested at the beginning of 1946, was taken to the special camp Mühlberg on February 19, 1946 and was deported from here on August 7, 1946 to an internment camp near Saratov in the Soviet Union ; as reasons for arrest are given: active NSDAP member, SA-Sturmbannführer , rector of the Technical University of Dresden. Jost died there in 1948 and was buried in the Wolsk cemetery.

Buildings and designs

New hunter's house at the Grillenburg hunting lodge in the Tharandt Forest near Dresden

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literature

  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical lexicon on National Socialist science policy. (= Studies on the History of Science and University , Volume 6.) Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 86.
  • Michael Jaensch, Ulrich Kluge: Wilhelm Jost 1887–1948. About the relationship between politics and architecture in Dresden. In: Scientific journal of the Technical University of Dresden , Thematic Series 45 (1996), No. 3, pp. 27–33.
  • Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 290.
  • Kurt Reinschke, Matthias Lienert, Mike Schmeitzner : Wilhelm Jost. "Leader-Rector" of the TH Dresden . In: Christine Pieper, Mike Schmeitzner, Gerhard Naser (Eds.): Braune Karrieren. Dresden perpetrators and actors in National Socialism . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-942422-85-7 , pp. 228-237.
  • Bernhard Sterra: Dresden and the Stuttgart School. In: Kai Krauskopf, Hans-Georg Lippert, Kerstin Zaschke (eds.): New tradition. Concepts of an anti-modern modernity in Germany from 1920 to 1960. Dresden 2009.
  • Jost, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 568 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Wilhelm Jost in the historical register of architects archthek , accessed on October 8, 2014
  2. ↑ Jost-Schäfer, Lydia . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955.
  3. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy. (= Studies on the History of Science and University , Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 86.
  4. ^ Message from the Mühlberg Initiative Group of August 6, 2012 to the requesting author of this entry based on the transport lists available there.
  5. ↑ http://kirche.sandland.de/
  6. ↑ cf. List of cultural monuments in Ravensburg
  7. ^ M. Kautzsch: Württemberg small churches. In: Art and Church , born 1938, issue 3.
  8. ↑ http://www.thomas-scharnowski.de/mall/paulusgemeinde2.htm
  9. ^ List of cultural monuments in Räcknitz
  10. ^ Hans Henninger: Architect Wilhelm Jost. Comradeship House of the National Socialist German Student Union in Dresden. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 71st year 1937, pp. 138–143.
  11. ↑ To the location: New hunting lodge in Grillenburg / Tharandt by Wilhelm Jost 1938-39 + dormitory of the NS student union in Dresden from 1936 , Das Neue Dresden, accessed on April 23, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Jost, Wilhelm Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jost, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1948
Place of death Wolsk near Saratov , Soviet Union