Wilhelm Kröger (architect)

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"The Architect Wilhelm Kröger";
Drawing by August Heitmüller , around 1929
The older rental apartment buildings from 1905 to 1907, non-profit savings and construction association Hannover-Buchholz , architects Krack and Kröger

Wilhelm Ernst Friedrich Kröger (born October 23, 1881 in Munich , † after December 1938) was a German architect and association official .

Life

The architect Wilhelm Kröger, who was born in Munich during the founding of the German Empire in 1881, was - apart from his hometown Munich - mainly active in Hanover and in the province of Hanover . He was the son of the factory owner Christian Kröger and Therese, née Spindlbauer.

Since 1906 Kröger was married to Elsa , née Müller . The couple had a daughter.

Kröger received his training at the technical university, the building trade school and the arts and crafts school. He took part in the First World War as a soldier , most recently as a lieutenant in the reserve in the engineer force.

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Kröger was appointed to the “ Werkrat ” by Reichskunstwart Edwin Redslob on February 17 and April 23, 1920 - with him the BDA representatives Heinrich Straumer and Eduard Jobst Siedler as well as representatives of the German Werkbund such as Peter Behrens , Bruno Paul and Hans Poelzig , the church building specialist Otto Bartning and the architect and publicist Heinrich de Fries .

As an association architect , Kröger emerged from the Weimar Republic as third chairman of the Association of German Architects (BDA) from 1921 . In addition, he was a board member of the Reichsbund der Deutschen Technik , chairman of the working group for the liberal intellectual professions founded in 1922 and a corresponding member of the Central Association of Architects in Austria .

Kröger was involved with the architects Fritz Torno , Heinrich Möll and Karl Siebrecht in the planning of the Listhof residential complex at Podbielskistraße 101-103, which was built from 1925 to 1928 .

The listed building Waldstrasse 8 ;
Recording from 2011
Historical information board on the corner of Waldstrasse 8 and De-Haën-Platz in Hanover's List district

From 1927 to 1929 Kröger was involved in the construction of the housing estate on De-Haën-Platz, which was largely specified by the Hanover City Building Office under the direction of Karl Elkart , alongside Friedrich Wilhelm Schick and the architectural community Jürgens & Mencke (Eduard Jürgens, Hans Mencke).

At the end of the 1920s, Kröger also took up leading positions in professional and economic organizations, including as a member of the board of the Provisional Reich Economic Council .

At the time of National Socialism in 1933 Kröger was involved in Albert Kesselring's search for a suitable airfield in the Lüneburg Heath to set up an air force , which preceded the construction of the Faßberg air base . Also in Faßberg , he handed over the new Michael Church to the head of the Faßberg estate on December 17, 1938 .

In the meantime, Wilhelm Kröger won an architecture competition from the city of Hanover, through which he was able to build the HJ home "Paul von Hindenburg" between 1934 and 1935 with the assistance of Albert Richard . The Nazi facility on Rudolf-von-Bennigsen-Ufer on the Maschsee , then also known as the "Paul von Hindenburg Youth Hostel" , later became the Maschsee Waldorf School .

Works

Buildings (selection and if known)

  • 1906–1907, together with Karl Krack for the savings and construction association Hannover-Buchholz, the apartment buildings built in blocks:
    • Podbielskistraße 217, 219, 221, 223, 225, 227, 229, 231
    • In Kreuzkampe 1 and 3
    • Am Langen Kampe 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6
    • Spannhagenstrasse 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
    • Klaus-Groth-Straße 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11
  • 1928: Structural additions to the building complexes built between 1906 and 1907 for the Spar- und Bauverein Hannover-Buchholz

Fonts (selection)

  • Elimination of the housing shortage, the settlement building activity, the revival of private construction activity, the building material shortage, the socialization of the building industry, the reconstruction of the devastated areas in Belgium and France , 1920

literature

  • anonymous: the architect Wilhelm Kröger . In: August Heitmüller (draftsman), Wilhelm Metzig (concept): Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature , vol. 1, printing and publishing company Heinrich Osterwald, Hanover [without year: 1929] (without page number)
  • The Hindenburg Youth Hostel on the Maschsee near Hanover . In: Bauwelt , year 1934, issue 44, ISSN  0931-6590 , pp. 1–8.
  • Works by the architect BDA Wilhelm Kröger, Hanover. In: The building guild. Communications from the Association of German Architects, BDA . Born in 1928, pp. 1741-1743.
  • Architect BDA Kröger, Hanover. In: Baumeister , ISSN  0005-674X , year 1956, p. 125.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Kröger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Christian Welzbacher : Die Staatsarchitektur der Weimarer Republik , 1st edition, Berlin: Lukas-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-936872-62-0 and ISBN 3-936872-62-7 , p. 23 , 31, 179; Preview over google books
  2. ^ Kröger, Wilhelm Friedrich in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , last accessed on November 3, 2016
  3. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  4. ↑ a b c d Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928, p. 873.
  5. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Torno, Fritz A. in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , last accessed on November 3, 2016
  6. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : De-Haën-Platz , in: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 99f.
  7. ^ Anonymous: The architect Wilhelm Kröger , in: August Heitmüller (draftsman), Wilhelm Metzig (concept): Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature , Vol. 1, printing and publishing company Heinrich Osterwald, Hanover [without year: 1929] (without page number)
  8. ^ Matthias Blazek : Faßberg Air Base. ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aerospacedayfassberg.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Contribution to the AeroSpaceDay Faßberg 2013.
  9. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : The buildings on the lake and the early Maschsee shipping , in that. (Ed.): The Maschsee in Hanover. Its origins and history , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1986, ISBN 978-3-87706-046-9 and ISBN 3-87706-046-3 , pp. 61–66
  10. ^ Helmut Weihsmann : Building under the swastika. Architektur des Untergang , Vienna: Promedia Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-85371-113-2 and ISBN 3-85371-113-8 , p. 517; Preview over google books
  11. ↑ Mortimer G. Davidson: Art in Germany 1933 - 1945. A scientific encyclopedia of art in the Third Reich , Vol. 3: Architecture , text in German, English and French, Tübingen: Grabert Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3-87847- 111-0 and ISBN 3-87847-111-4 and ISBN 978-3-87847-129-5 and ISBN 3-87847-129-7 , pp. 193, 195, 515; Preview over google books
  12. ↑ a b c d e f g Reinhard Glaß: Krack, Carl (Karl) in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de , last accessed on August 31, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Kröger, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kröger, Wilhelm Ernst Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and association official
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH after 1938