- Ernst Sagebiel
Ernst Sagebiel (2 October 1892 in
Braunschweig (Brunswick) – 1970 inBavaria ) was a Germanarchitect .Life
Sagebiel was a sculptor's son, and after his "
Abitur " in 1912, he began his studies inarchitecture in Braunschweig. He eventually finished his studies in 1922, after they were interrupted by his participation in theFirst World War , which included a stay in aprisoner-of-war camp . In 1924, he joined Jakob Körfer's architectural bureau inCologne . In 1926 came hisdoctorate ("Promotion"). In 1929, Sagebiel took up a job inBerlin as a project leader andchief executive officer at the architectErich Mendelsohn 's office, but in 1932, he had to leave this job owing to the severe economic climate in Germany at that time. He worked as aconstruction foreman .After
Adolf Hitler and theNazis seized power in 1933, Sagebiel applied for membership in theNSDAP , and became a member of theSturmabteilung (SA).Already by 1933, Sagebiel had, at his brother's suggestion, come to be at the "Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule" ("German Commercial Flyers' School"), which was a front organization involved more with Germany's
air force buildup than with commercial flying. As of 1934, he was being trusted with planning, as well as overseeing construction of, numerous Luftwaffebarracks (in Döberitz, Berlin-Gatow and Kladow, to name a few) as leader of the special works unit.In 1934 and 1935, he gave Germany its first major building project in the time of the Third Reich – the new Reich Air Transport Ministry. Later, he found himself busy with another project, Tempelhof Airport, then the world's biggest building.
Sagebiel's building style, which when compared to
Albert Speer 's rather classicist tendencies came across as very stark and linear, was described as "Luftwaffe modern", owing not least to his close association with theLuftwaffe . With his earlier building of the Reich Air Transport Ministry forHermann Göring , which came earlier than Albert Speer's exertion of influence on the National Socialists' architectural parlance, Sagebiel set a trend that would be recognizable throughout the Third Reich. From 1938, he was directly subordinate to the Air Transport Minister, Hermann Göring, and was thereby counted among the Reich's most important architects. In the same year, he became aprofessor at the "Technische Hochschule Berlin".With the outbreak of
war against theSoviet Union in 1941 came an end to all Sagebiel's building plans.List of projects and plans
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Columbushaus , Berlin, Project management forErich Mendelsohn
*Reichsluftfahrtministerium , Berlin 1934 – 1935
*Tempelhof International Airport , Berlin 1935 – 1941
*Stuttgart Airport
* Munich Riem Airport
* Bücker Aircraft Works,Rangsdorf
* Regional Air Command Centres inKiel ,Königsberg andMünster
* Luftwaffe schools in Berlin-Gatow,Dresden andPotsdam -Wildpark Literature
* Elke Dittrich: "Ernst Sagebiel - Leben und Werk (1892 - 1970)." Lukas Verlag Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936872-39-2
* Laurenz Demps und Carl-Ludwig Paeschke: "Flughafen Tempelhof." Ullstein Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-550-06973-1
* Hans J. Reichhardt, Wolfgang Schäche: "Von Berlin nach Germania." Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 2005 (gebundene Ausgabe), ISBN 3-88747-127-X
* Wolfgang Schäche: "Architektur und Städtebau in Berlin zwischen 1933 und 1945." Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7861-1178-2
* Jost Schäfer: "Das ehem. Luftkreiskommando IV in Münster von Ernst Sagebiel", in: Zeitschrift Westfalen, 76. Bd. Münster 1999, S. 380-401. ISSN 0043-4337See also
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Nazi architecture External links
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* [http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/SagebielErnst/ Biography at the German Historical Museum] (in German)
* [http://www.flughafen-tempelhof.de Tempelhof Airport's website] (in German)
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