Wilhelm Schorn

This article deals with the civil engineer Wilhelm Schorn. For the art historian see Wilhelm Eduard Schorn .

Wilhelm Schorn (born August 16, 1895 in Cologne , † November 18, 1968 in Darmstadt ) was a German civil engineer , structural engineer and university professor .

Life

Wilhelm Schorn was born in Cologne in 1895 as the son of the Cologne architect and contractor Anton Rudolf Schorn. He studied from 1918 to 1922 at the Technical University of Aachen . In 1936 he received his doctorate there as Dr.-Ing. From 1925 he worked in industry and in monument preservation.

Schorn had already carried out security work in various churches before 1939, for example in St. Georg in Cologne . During the Second War he was appointed "Head of Emergency Measures" in Cologne. After the destruction of the Romanesque churches in Cologne during the war, he was involved in their reconstruction, as well as working as a building contractor on the Cologne Cathedral . He had an engineering office and a construction company in Cologne, which had existed since 1886, and from January 1, 1941 to 1963, was professor of statics in the architecture faculty at the Technical University of Darmstadt . He was appointed to succeed Max Hummel .

Schorn had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1937 . From 1935 to 1940 he was a Rottenführer at the NSKK . In the Second World War, Schorn was placed uk . In the denazification process he appealed and was finally classified as exonerated in March 1947.

From 1949 to 1951 he was dean of the architecture faculty.

After the Second World War he was employed as a consultant and appraiser for the monument office in Darmstadt. He was involved in the restoration of the city church, the castle and the museum tower in Darmstadt. He also acted as a consultant for the cathedral in Speyer and the residence in Würzburg. In the 1960s he was active as an appraiser for the reconstruction of the court theater.

In 1955 Wilhelm Schorn was one of the founders of the riding club at the TH Darmstadt.

Wilhelm Schorn died in November 1968 at the age of 73. His first marriage to Katharina Dirksen from 1925 and his second marriage to Herta Jahn born in 1942. Kissel married.

Fonts

• with Franz Graf Wolff Metternich: Securing the Catholic parish church of St. Georg in Cologne. In: Yearbook of the Rheinische Denkmalpflege 5/6, 1930, pp. 106–127.
• The securing work on the Church of St. Maria in the Capitol in Cologne. In: Rheinische Heimatpflege, Jahrbuch der Rheinische Denkmalpflege 9, 1937, pp. 529–544.
• with Albert Verbeek: The Church of St. Georg in Cologne. Berlin 1940. (In it: The Church of St. George in Cologne. Building investigation and restoration work. At the same time: Dissertation, Technical University Aachen, 1941.)
• Restoration problems on war-damaged monuments. In: Ernst Neufert (ed.): The architect at the tear point. Darmstadt 1948, pp. 178-186.
• Contribution in: Walter Bader: St. Quirinus zu Neuss. Ratingen 1955.

literature

• Ernst Neufert (ed.): The architect at the breaking point. Darmstadt 1948, p. 220 (list of authors with biographical notes).
• Christa Wolf and Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1977, p. 187.
• Isabel Schmidt: After National Socialism. The TH Darmstadt between politics of the past and future management (1945–1960), Darmstadt 2015.
• Melanie Hanel: Normality under exceptional conditions. The TH Darmstadt under National Socialism, Darmstadt 2014.