Wolfgang Bangert

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Wolfgang Bangert (born December 27, 1901 in Berlin ; † April 9, 1973 in Kassel ) was a German urban planner and architect . His brother was the architect Walther Bangert (1905–1945), his son is the architect Dietrich Bangert .

Life

Wolfgang Bangert, son of the Berlin architect Karl Eduard Bangert , studied architecture and urban planning at the Technical University of Berlin with Hermann Jansen and Gerhard Jobst from 1920 to 1924 . In 1924 he came to Frankfurt am Main as an employee of City Councilor Ernst May. In the Ernst Mays planning team in Frankfurt am Main , Bangert worked on the general plans for the award-winning Praunheim , Römerstadt and Westhausen estates as part of the “ New Frankfurt ” urban planning program . At May he first met Eugen Blanck . In 1933 he took part in the CIAM conference in Athens .

From 1930 Bangert worked in the city building department of the city administration of Cologne. Here he was responsible for the overall planning for the Cologne city ​​area on the right bank of the Rhine . In their redevelopment concept for Cologne's old town in 1934, Eugen Blanck and Bangert coined the concept of the “ urban landscape ”, which was the model for urban planning in the 20th century . From 1935 Bangert was the town's building officer and head of the planning office in Krefeld . In the meantime he received his doctorate in 1936 under Gottfried Feder at the Technical University of Berlin. In his dissertation, Bangert dealt with the topic of "Building Policy and Urban Design in Frankfurt am Main: A Contribution to the Development History of German Urban Development in the Last 100 Years".

After the war he worked as a freelance architect until 1948. In June 1946 he and Eugen Blank wrote a memorandum to plan for the reconstruction of Cologne. In 1948/1949 Bangert was again active as a municipal building officer in Krefeld, and as such was responsible for drawing up the reorganization plan for the city center and the exhibition "Krefeld under construction". At that time he was appointed to the German Werkbund .

From 1949 to 1966, Bangert was the town planning officer for the city of Kassel. As head of the entire urban construction sector, he was initially responsible for the reconstruction of the city center, and from 1953 onwards also for the implementation of the Federal Horticultural Show in 1955 . As town planning officer, he left behind a collection of all articles in the daily press relating to reconstruction from 1949 to 1953, which was unique for that time.

Board activities

Bangert was a member of the building committee of the German Association of Cities (BST) and chairman of the subordinate building committee of the Hessian Association of Cities (HStT). He was a member of the executive committee of the German Academy for Urban Development and State Planning and chaired the State Group Hesse / Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland.

Awards and honors

Web links

literature

  • Folckert Lüken-Isberner, Big plans for Kassel 1919-1949 , projects on urban development and urban planning . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Welzbacher: The State Architecture of the Weimar Republic , Lukas Verlag, 2006, p. 292.
  2. ↑ a b c Marco Kieser: Zettelkasten: Architects in the 20th Century: Eugen Blanck (1901-1980) , accessed on May 22, 2014.
  3. ↑ 1952: Questions and Doubts , Deutscher Werkbund, accessed on May 22, 2014.
  4. ↑ Ronald Kunze (ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Kassel as reflected in the local press (Dr. Bangert Collection) Hanover / Kassel 1987
  5. ↑ Streets named after people with a name explanation ( Memento from July 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , Official Street Directory Kassel.
  6. ↑ Official Journal for Frankfurt am Main , Volume 144, No. 17, City of Frankfurt am Main, April 23, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Bangert, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German urban planner and architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1973
Place of death kassel