Wilhelm Eduard Brodtbeck

Wilhelm Eduard Brodtbeck ( born September 25, 1873 in Liestal, † April 12, 1957 ) was a Swiss architect.

Biography

William Edward, son of William Senior (architect and cement producer ) and Susanne Caroline Spinnler, grew up in Liestal.

Wilhelm Brodtbeck first attended schools in Liestal and later in Basel. His architectural studies, he graduated from the Technical University in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. After several study trips to Germany, Holland, Austria, Italy and France, Brodtbeck worked in Lausanne.

His architectural firm William Brodtbeck founded in 1901 in Liestal. As a young architect, he realized a wide variety of residential buildings. It came later, several school buildings, and industrial buildings, added.

He married Susanna Elisabeth Buess of Wenslingen in 1904.

From 1921 he heads along with his partner Fritz Bohny W. Brodtbeck AG. In 1952 Rolf Georg Otto accepts the invitation of Brodtbeck the renowned architectural firm. The architects of the foundation phase retire for age reasons. Until his death, 1957, was Wilhelm Eduard Brodtbeck still chairman of the company. Today, the agency operates under Otto Partner.

Buildings

The company W. Brodtbeck AG was known throughout the region of Basel with its modern buildings. The architectural firm Brodtbeck could run in teams of two important contracts in the city of Basel. First, the Municipal Casino (1937-1941) and then, for the chemical company Sandoz, the administration building. From Brodt Becks architectural firm the Rotackerschulhaus in Liestal, the cantonal bank in Binningen, the mill complex with small power plant in Lausen BL ( 1923) and the investments of the saline in Swiss Hall in Muttenz come. In addition to the Munich stone Wohnkolonie Water House (1920 /21) in the Quartier New World.

More

Wilhelm Brodtbeck was 20 years in the community Liestal Commission and he was a board member of the Basel homeland security.

Writings

Wilhelm Brodtbeck also wrote poetry, festivals and prose.

• Young Blood. Poems 1899.
• D virtue gave. Time images from the recent past. Festival at the Cantonal shooting festival in Basel Liestal 1923