Wolfgang Voigt (architectural historian)

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Wolfgang Voigt (* 24. May 1950 in Hamburg ) is a German architectural historian and nonfiction - author .

Life

Wolfgang Voigt was born in 1950 as the son of the paleontologist Ehrhard Voigt and the teacher Ellinor Voigt, b. Bucerius born. After graduating from high school in 1970 at Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg, he served in the German armed forces until 1972. He then studied architecture in Hanover at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover and graduated in 1978 with the diploma examination. Until 1981 he worked as a research assistant at the architecture department of the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen for a research project on the history of Bremen's housing construction in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1982 he switched to the architecture collection of the Hanover City Archives to work on and research the estate of Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves .

From 1985 Voigt worked as a freelance architectural historian, was a freelancer at the Hamburg Monument Protection Office and did research on modern architecture, among other things. In the following year he became a research assistant at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . At the same time he was in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hanover with the dissertation From Bremen House to State Apartment. Mass housing construction and politics in Bremen 1900-1931 PhD with Günther Kokkelink .

In the 1993/94 winter semester Voigt held a substitute professorship for building history at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. In the field of modern building and urban construction history, he completed his habilitation in 1998 under the title Planning and Building in the Occupied Territory , later also under the title German Architects in Alsace 1940 - 1944. Planning and building in the annexed border region published.

In 1997, Voigt took over the position of deputy director of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main . Voigt has been a freelance architecture historian in Frankfurt am Main since January 2016.

Voigt is deputy chairman of the Ernst May Society and deputy spokesman for the Federation of German-Language Architectural Collections .

Fonts (selection)

  • The railway king or Romania was in Linden. Materials on the social history of workers' housing construction during industrialization. With examples from Hanover's factory suburb of Linden (around 1845 - 75), as well as a necessary excursus about Germany's railway king Bethel Henry Strousberg (= materials from AG SPAK ), Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialpolitischer Arbeitskreise, M 46, Sozialpolitischer Verlag SPV, Berlin 1980, ISBN 978-3- 88227-046-4
  • Hartmut Häussermann, Wolfgang Voigt: The Bremen house. The anticipated housing reform? (= University of Bremen. Scientific unit urban and social research: working papers , booklet 2), University of Bremen, 1986
  • Wolfgang Voigt (editor), Helmut Knocke , Ulrich Steinbacher (collaborator): Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves. Finding aid for the estate. Ulrich Steinbacher in memory . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 42 (1988), pp. 233–283
  • Wolfgang Voigt: The Bremen house. Housing reform and urban development in Bremen 1880-1940 (= series of publications by the Hamburg Architecture Archive , volume [5]), also dissertation 1986 at the University of Hanover, ed. commissioned by the Hamburg Chamber of Architects, Junius, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 978-3-88506-192-2
  • Atlantropa. World building on the Mediterranean. An architect's dream of the modern age , including a film documentation with animations of the “world improvement idea” Atlantropa, Grosser and Stein, Pforzheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-86735-025-9
  • Plan and construct in the territories annexes. Architectes allemands en Alsace de 1940 à 1944 (= German architects in Alsace 1940 - 1944 ) (= Publications de la Société Savante d'Alsace et des Régions de l'Est / Collection "Recherches et documents", T. 78 ), Société Savante d'Alsace, Strasbourg 2008, ISBN 978-2-904920-39-4
    • German architects in Alsace 1940 - 1944. Planning and building in the annexed border region (= publication by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt am Main ), at the same time habilitation paper 1998 at the University of Hanover under the title Planning and Building in the Occupied Area , Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 2012 , ISBN 978-3-8030-0755-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography , voigt-architektur.com, accessed on February 26, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Voigt , marlowes, accessed on February 26, 2019
  3. ^ Bodies and persons , Ernst-May-Gesellschaft, accessed on February 26, 2019
  4. ↑ Contact , Federation of German-Language Architectural Collections, accessed on February 26, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg