Wolfgang Triebel (architect)

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Wolfgang Triebel (born September 30, 1900 in Zetzsch ; † March 15, 2002 in Hanover ) was a German architect and university professor , director of the Institute for Building Research eV in Hanover and honorary professor for building research at the Technical University of Hanover .

Life

After the war Abitur at the grammar school Stendal in 1918 and his military service Wolfgang Triebel worked as a locksmith, blacksmith, bricklayer and carpenter in Germany and the Netherlands. He studied at the Technical University of Hanover, where he joined the Corps Slesvico-Holsatia . In 1922 he completed his studies with the main diploma examination. In 1923 he became government building supervisor and worked from 1925 to 1927 in Stade and Göttingen as branch manager of the Lower Saxony homestead . In 1927 he became a government builder. In the same year he received his doctorate as Dr.-Ing. at the Technical University of Hanover with a dissertation on the subject of the old country, investigations to keep the townscape clean and to preserve the craft culture . From 1927 to 1931 he was department head at the Reich Research Association for Economic Efficiency in Building and Housing in Berlin. With his appointment to the town planning officer in Stendal, he became Germany's youngest town building officer. In 1938 he became a councilor , later a senior councilor in the Reich Ministry of Labor . At the same time he set up a research facility for the building industry in Magdeburg in 1938 on behalf of the German Academy for Building Research, of which he had become a member in 1934. After the Second World War , in which he was active as an army officer, he continued the work of this research facility from 1946 onwards in the Institute for Building Research he founded in Hanover , of which he remained director until 1973.

In 1954 he was given a teaching position at the Technical University of Hanover on the subject of new findings in building research . In 1960 he was appointed honorary professor. With his trend-setting projects in the 1950s, such as the construction of the settlement in Hemmingen-Westerfeld near Hanover for financially weak families or the Hansaviertel in Berlin-Tiergarten , he became a pioneer of social housing in Germany.

Triebel was a member of the Humboldt Society , the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft for the field of construction and urban development and from 1971 to 1973 a member of the board of the International Council for Research and Documentation in the Building Industry.

Awards

Corps student honors

Publications

Wolfgang Triebel was involved in around 900 publications at home and abroad. He was co-author of the large building materials dictionary and editor of the series of publications economically building .

His main publications were:

  • The old country. Investigations to keep the townscape clean and to preserve the craft culture. Dissertation, Technical University of Hanover 1927.
  • Investigations on wooden exterior walls. 1934.
  • The building material and coal requirement for residential house roofs made of reinforced concrete with different roof pitches. 1947.
  • The economic efficiency of the debris. 1947.
  • Building material and coal requirements for residential construction. 1948.
  • Ways to economic building - work and results 1946-1947. 1948.
  • Ways to economic building - work and results 1948-1949. 1949.
  • Technical development and cost reduction in residential construction. 1950
  • Contributions to rationalization in residential construction. 1952
  • The construction preparation in the practice of housing construction. 1954.
  • Evaluation of existing work on the profitability of wall constructions. 1957.
  • The development of economical wall construction. 1957.
  • The development of economical wall construction II. 1959.
  • Small steel customer for housing construction. 1975.
  • History of building research. 1982.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the archive portal of the Kösener and Weinheimer Corps

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personal data
SURNAME Triebel, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Zetzsch
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2002
Place of death Hanover