Wilhelm Schütte – Wikipedia

Wilhelm Schütte (Born August 14, 1900 in Mülheim-Heißen, † April 17, 1968 in Vienna) was a German-Austrian architect.

Schütte’s parents Hans and Elisabeth, born Doll, both came from pastor families, his father was himself a pastor. In 1902 the family moved to Mülheim am Rhein, which was incorporated into Cologne in 1914. Wilhelm Schütte attended high school here and took the emergency dab in 1917, in the First World War. He then worked on different construction sites and at different companies. From the end of June to the end of November 1918, he had to do military service. Schütte has been studying civil engineering at TH Aachen since the summer semester of 1918. From the winter semester of 1918/19, he moved to the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he completed the pre -diploma in 1920. He then worked as an architect and construction manager at Karl Doll in Essen and studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich. In 1922 he worked in the architecture firm of Martin Elsaesser in Cologne, where he designed furniture. 1922/23 Schütte Schütte completed his architectural studies in Munich with the diploma at Theodor Fischer. He then worked in the office of Theodor Fischer and in the Robert Vorhoelzer office. Then he was briefly a building royal at the Munich Oberpostdirektion, in 1925 Schütte Schloss then completed his training as a government master builder.

At the Neue Frankfurt project, he became head of the school building subdivision. School construction later remained its main area of ​​responsibility. In Frankfurt he met his future wife Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, whom he married in 1928.

Later he also worked in China, the Soviet Union, until August 1937, and France before emigrating to Istanbul in 1938, where he could compete. In Turkey, he was able to build some schools to impart Robert Vorhoelzer. By dispensing the Turkish government’s official stationery, he managed to achieve a prison for his wife Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, against whom the death penalty had been applied for in Germany for treason.

From 1947 he lived in Vienna and accepted Austrian citizenship, but – like his wife – received hardly any orders as a communist, so that his buildings were primarily commissioned by KPÖ. He stayed in Vienna even after he separated from his wife in 1951. After the founding of the Austrian section of the Ciam in 1948, he became its general secretary.

• 1923–24 postal residential and overnight buildings in Berchtesgaden
• 1925–27 Konrad-Haenisch-Schule, Frankfurt a. M. (together with Martin Elsaesser)
• 1927–28 Ludwig Richter School, Frankfurt a. M. (together with Martin Elsaesser)
• 1927–29 elementary school Niederursel (since 1965 Heinrich-Kromer-Schule), Frankfurt a. M.
• 1928/30 open -air classes Frankensteinerschule
• 1928–29 School in the Roman city (since 1964 Geschwister-Scholl-Schule), Frankfurt a. M.
• 1926–29 Holzhausenschule, Frankfurt a. M.
• At the beginning of 1930s: school for 640 students, 1st quarter, Magnitogorsk
• 1960–1961 Special School, Vienna-Floridsdorf ^[first]

• Ute Waditschatka (ed.): Wilhelm Schütte, architect: Frankfurt, Moscow, Istanbul, Vienna , Zurich: Park Books [2019], ISBN 978-3-03860-140-1.
• Thomas Flierl (ed.): Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky / Wilhelm Schütte: “Make the way for Prinkipo, my thoughts will accompany you!” The 1941–1945 prison change. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2021, ISBN 978-3-86732-306-2.

1. ↑ New architecture in Austria 1945–1970 . R. BOHMER-Publiser, whol 1969, p. 98F.