Wilhelm Schütte

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Wilhelm Schütte (born August 14, 1900 in Mülheim - Heißen ; † April 17, 1968 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian architect .

Wilhelm Schütte studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and architecture at the Technical University of Munich . After that he was briefly construction referendar at the Oberpostdirektion Munich .

At the Neues Frankfurt project he became head of the school construction department. School building remained his main area of ​​responsibility later on. In Frankfurt he met his future wife Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky , whom he married in 1928.

He later worked in China , the Soviet Union , and France until August 1937, before emigrating to Istanbul in 1938 , where he was able to take up a teaching position . In Turkey he was able to set up a few schools with the help of Robert Vorhoelzer . By stealing official letter paper from the Turkish government , he succeeded in obtaining a prison sentence for his wife Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky , against whom the death penalty had been requested in Germany for high treason .

From 1947 he lived in Vienna and took Austrian citizenship, but received - like his wife - hardly any commissions as a communist, so that his buildings were primarily commissioned by the KPÖ . He stayed in Vienna even after he separated from his wife in 1951. After the founding of the Austrian section of CIAM in 1948, he became its general secretary.

Works (selection)

literature

  • Ute Waditschatka (Red.): Wilhelm Schütte, Architect: Frankfurt, Moscow, Istanbul, Vienna , Zurich: Park Books [2019], ISBN 978-3-03860-140-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schütte, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Be called
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1968
Place of death Vienna