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Amt Macht Stadt Erich Leischner and the Vienna Stadtbauamt Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall Exhibition: 16 June 1999 - 02 August 1999 Opening: Tuesday 15 June 1999, 7pm 1885 Born on January 2, 1887 in Vienna to Hans Leischner, chief inspector of the Viennese professional fire brigade as well as widely known drawer and watercolorist, and Jeanette (Johanna) Leischner, née Staudigl Primary school, then secondary education at the Bundesrealschule Schottenbastei 1906 Matura (school-leaving certificate) and enrollment in architectural studies at the Vienna University of Technology Passes 1st state exam with "very qualified". ab 1911 voluntary at the Vienna Stadtbauamt, at first with a student contract Design proposals for the Vienna water works and the municipal electricity utilities 1912 State exam and graduation from the Vienna University of Technology with honours in utility building and architecture. Teachers: Carl Mayreder, Max v. Ferstel, Leopold Simony, Carl König ab 1913 employed as architects at the Stadtbauamt, at first in the department for school construction, later in the architectural department 1915 - 1918 War service in a pioneer battalion, military objects in Transylvania and in the Carpathian Mountains. First lieutenant 1918 Birth of his daughter Traude Passes the city architecture exam with "excellent qualification" Until he retires, he carries out numerous housing projects as architect in the architectural department of the Vienna Stadtbauamt in the framework of the housing program designed by the social-democratic community administration. Furthermore swimming pools, bridges, streets, parks, cemeteries, garages, kindergartens, buildings for the fire brigade and the water works, monuments and fountains. Painter and drawer of Vienna views, show pictures,i.e. 1924 Baurat (member of the construction council) 1929 Among those proposed by the professorial college for the chair of utility building construction at the Vienna University of Technology 1931 - 1932 Among those proposed by the professorial college for the chair of architecture at the Vienna University of Technology 1933 - 1934 Among those proposed by the professorial college for the chair of civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology 1937 Oberbaurat (senior member of the building council) 1938 Commissioned to perform für "special tasks" for the city’s regulation department, creation of show pictures for propaganda-motivated reconstruction plans for Vienna 1945 Marriage with Stephanie Josepha, née Holzer Head of the re-established the architectural department of the City of Vienna and building consulting department (later Magistratsabteilung 19) 1947 Senatsrat (member of the architectural senate) ab 1949 Retirement from his public office, free-lance architect as of this point Member of the Chamber of Engineers for Vienna, Lower Austria, and Burgenland Member of the society "Gesellschaft bildender K[Ydieresis]nstler Wiens, K[Ydieresis]nstlerhaus" Laureate of the Goldener Lorbeer Numerous projects for the City of Vienna and for private clients. 1970 Dies in Vienna on April 14. |
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