Wilhelm Wichtendahl

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Wilhelm Wichtendahl (born September 6, 1902 in La Paz , Bolivia ; † August 14, 1992 in Augsburg ) was a German architect.

biography

Wichtendahl studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich between 1924 and 1927 , after which he worked in the construction department of the Oberpostdirektion Augsburg until the National Socialists came to power . He then worked as a freelance architect in Augsburg.

During the National Socialist era, Wichtendahl worked primarily in the armaments industry, the area of ​​construction in the Third Reich , in which modern architecture was at least partially feasible. Like Wichtendahl, numerous protagonists of New Building therefore switched to this sector. Wichtendahl worked as a works architect at the Messerschmitt aircraft factories in Haunstetten and Regensburg together with his colleague Bernhard Hermkes . Subsequently, up to 60 architects from Wichtendahl were responsible for the planning of a MAN ship engine plant in Röthenbach and the aviation research institute in Ottobrunn , making his architecture office one of the largest in Germany. In the late 1930s, both built together in Hamburg , the engine plant in Hamburg .

In 1954 Wichtendahl was elected regional chairman of the Association of German Architects (BDA) and from 1959 to 1965 he was President of BDA Germany. In 1963 he received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich . His estate is kept in the Schwaben Architecture Museum in Augsburg.

Works

  • 1927: Telegraph construction office on Stadtjägerstrasse in Augsburg (together with Georg Werner )
  • 1930: Post Office Friedberg (Bavaria)
  • 1933: Post office Krumbach (together with Georg Werner)
  • 1933/34: Sparkasse Krumbach
  • 1934–1938: Messerschmitt AG aircraft works in Augsburg
  • 1935/36: St. Lukas Church at Hammerschmiedweg 76, Augsburg (together with Walter Freyberger )
  • 1938–1942: MAN Motorenwerke in Hamburg (together with Bernhard Hermkes)
  • 1950s: Exhibition hall of the MAN Research Institute for Mechanics and Design
  • 1952–1957: Apartment blocks for young families in Augsburg-Hochfeld
  • 1954–1956: Competition for the Deutsche Pfandbriefanstalt in Wiesbaden (together with Alexander von Branca )
  • 1956: Dependent High School in Augsburg
  • 1957: Secondary school "An der Blauenkap" in Augsburg
  • 1961–1962: Gartner living and guest house in Gundelfingen
  • 1962: Designs for the Wertingen district hospital
  • 1964: St. Petrus Church in Soldnerstrasse, Augsburg-Hochzoll-Süd
  • 1964–1966: First prize in the competition for the Großhadern Clinic (together with Georg Alexander Roemmich )
  • 1967: Designs for the Marktoberdorf district hospital
  • 1967: First prize in the competition for the expansion and modernization of the Rain District Hospital (now "Donau-Ries Seniorenheim Rain")
  • 1968–1971: Commercial vocational school in Augsburg-Hochfeld
  • 1973: District Hospital Munich-Neuperlach (together with Georg A. Roemmich)

literature

  • Joachim Matthaei , Wilhelm Wichtendahl: The architect today and tomorrow. Memorandum of the Association of German Architects BDA on the training of architects 1961 , BDA, 1962
  • Norbert Weickenmeier: Portrait of the architect: Wilhelm Wichtendahl. In: The Architect , September 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winfried Nerdinger : Building under National Socialism . Bavaria 1933–1945. Architekturmuseum der TU-München, Munich 1993, p. 420
personal data
SURNAME Wichtendahl, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH La Paz , Bolivia
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1992
Place of death augsburg