Günter Behnisch

In 1922, Behnisch was born the middle child of three children in Lockwitz, near Dresden.^[1] He went to many schools, because his Social Democrat father was arrested, fired, and moved to Chemnitz by the new Nazi government.^[1]

In 1939 at age 17, Behnisch volunteered to join the navy (Kriegsmarine). This was a less difficult alternative than being conscripted.^[1] He eventually became a U-boat officer and served on U-952. In October 1944, he became one of the youngest U-boat commanders. He commissioned U-2337.^[2] After World War II, he surrendered his submarine to the British. He became a prisoner of war in Featherstone Castle in Northumberland.^[1]

Behnisch trained to become a bricklayer.^[1] In 1947, however he studied architecture at the Technical University in Stuttgart.^[3] From 1967 to 1987 he was a professor at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt.^[4]

 

 

• 1967–72: Olympic Park in Munich, Germany^[5]
• 1984–87: Central library of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt, Germany
• 1984–90: Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt, Germany
• 1985–87: HYSOLAR-Building der University of Stuttgart, Germany
• 1987–92: Plenary Complex of the German Parliament (Bundestag) in Bonn, Germany^[6]
• 1993–2005: Academy of Arts Building in central Berlin, a six-story glass expansion of the reconstructed Hotel Adlon^[7][8]
• 1997: State Clearing Bank – Landesgirokasse in Stuttgart, Germany^[9]
• 1998: Control tower at Nuremberg Airport, Germany^[10]
• 1998–2002: North German State Clearing Bank in Hanover, Germany^[11]
• 1999: Museum der Phantasie, Bernried am Starnberger See, Germany
• 2003: Genzyme Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA^[12]
• 2005: Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research in Toronto, Canada^[13]

• Busch, Rainer; Röll, Hans-Joachim (1999). German U-boat Commanders of World War II: A Biographical Dictionary. Translated by Brooks, Geoffrey. London, Annapolis, Md: Greenhill Books, Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-186-6.

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