* 1906 in Mühlhausen (Thuringia)
† 1960 in car accident on the Avus
- apprenticeship as carpenter, studied at the Kunstgewerbeakademie Dresden
- 1928–1932 trained at the Bauhaus under Mies van der Rohe; Diploma; until 1937 architect in Mies van der Rohe’s office
- until 1940 freelance architect in Berlin (buildings for the UfA, film vault, negative house, administration building, Reichspost Ministry)
- 1945–1947 freelance architect again; Luftbrückendenkmal (Berlin Airlift Memorial), high-rise building Lietzensee
- 1947 Professor of Architecture at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin
- 1958 one of his Hansaviertel houses was shown at the Brussels World Exhibition
