Clemens Julius Mangner, often C. J. Mangner in abbreviated form, (24 September 1885 – 19 December 1961) was a German architect who worked in his home town of Bonn and in what is now Wuppertal.
Life Born in Bonn, Mangner attended the in the town of Barmen, which is now part of Wuppertal. He studied, among others, with Wilhelm Kreis in Düsseldorf. His architectural firm last ran a residential and office building in Barmen, built for himself according to his own plans. (An der Bergbahn 14). From there he also planned, among other things, residential buildings for Bonn's new citizens from the Ruhr area. In today's Wuppertal, Mangner was entrusted with the construction of settlements in housing cooperatives, including the (1912–1927). From 1920 onwards, he can be traced for a few years with an office in Bonn (Münsterplatz 19). In 1923 Mangner won an architectural design competition for the new construction of the Wuppertal (today Hauptbahnhof) as part of a redesign of and and was also commissioned with the implementation. He was a member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten, within which he was appointed chairman and later honorary chairman of the Wuppertal district group and the Düsseldorf district group, as well as for a time of the Deutscher Werkbund.Ausgeführte Arbeiten und Entwürfe, C.J. Mangner Architekt BDA und DWB, Barmen [catalogue of works] Mangner also founded the Wuppertal section of the and became its first chairman. In 1925, he was appointed to the , for which he last served as secretary until 1955 and which appointed him an honorary member in 1960.Adressbuch der Stadt Bonn, J. F. Carthaus, Bonn (1920, 1924, 1936)Taschenbuch des öffentlichen Lebens, Festland Verlag, 1953, .Planen in Stadt und Land: Vorträge und Berichte, Springer-Verlag, 2013, , .
Mangner died in Wuppertal at the age of 76. and was buried at the in Bonn.
Awards 24 September 1955: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1. Class. 1957: Cornelius-Gurlitt-Gedenkmünze der .
Work Buildings
Date CityDistrict Adresse Picture Object Description Notes 1912–1914 WuppertalBarmen Schwerinstraße weitere Bilder New building : Construction management (client: Allgemeine Baugenossenschaft Barmen) Historic preservation 1912–1917 Wuppertal Barmen Seydlitzstraße, Zietenstraße, Bürgerallee weitere Bilder Siedlung Nordpark New building (with August Hecker; client: Allgemeine Baugenossenschaft Barmen). 1916 Assevent Avenue du Maréchal de lattre weitere Bilder Franco-German military cemeteryAssevent, DenkFried - Monuments and cemeteries Extension ca. 1920 WuppertalElberfeld Burgunderstraße 1–5 weitere Bilder Siedlung Frankenplatz: Group of three houses New building (client: Gemeinnütziger Bauverein zu Elberfeld) Historic preservation ca. 1920 WuppertalElberfeld Frankenplatz 29/31 weitere Bilder Siedlung Frankenplatz: Residence New building (client: Gemeinnütziger Bauverein zu Elberfeld) Historic preservation ca? 1920 WuppertalElberfeld Frankenplatz 33/35 weitere Bilder Siedlung Frankenplatz: Residence New building (client: Gemeinnütziger Bauverein zu Elberfeld) Historic preservation 1921 BonnBad Godesberg Rolandstraße 45 Villa New building Historic preservation 1921 WuppertalBarmen Sedanstraße Memorial for the fallen of the Gymnasium Sedanstraße. New building 1967 by Eugen Busmann 1921 WuppertalElberfeld Frankenplatz 6 weitere Bilder Siedlung Frankenplatz: Residence New building (with Ernst Bast; client: Gemeinnütziger Bauverein zu Elberfeld) Historic preservation 1921 Wuppertal Elberfeld Frankenplatz 13 weitere Bilder Siedlung Frankenplatz: Residence Historic preservation 1921–1922 WuppertalElberfeld Friesenstraße 9–13 weitere Bilder Siedlung Frankenplatz: Group of three houses New building (client: Gemeinnütziger Bauverein zu Elberfeld) Historic preservation 1926 WuppertalVohwinkel Gustav-Freytag-Straße 10/12 weitere Bilder Duplex house. New building 1926 WuppertalBarmen At Bergbahn 14 weitere Bilder Residential and office building C. J. Mangner. New building Partly destroyed during the war (1943) 1927 WuppertalBarmen Wettinerstraße 50–56 weitere Bilder Residences. New building (client: Bergische Terraingesellschaft). 1927/1928 WuppertalBarmen Schubertstraße 42 weitere Bilder Residence. New building 1951/1952 WuppertalVohwinkel Stackenbergstraße 21 weitere Bilder Residence. New building (with Wolf Rückle). 1954/1955 WuppertalBarmen Alter Markt 26–28 weitere Bilder Residential and commercial building with cinema Europa. Renovation (?) Client: Kurt Preschner
Miscellaneous After 1910: Wuppertal, overall development plan for the north-west slope of the Hardt (). 1920: Wuppertal, Development plan for the Lüntenbeck housing estate in the same-named residential quarter (commissioned by the Gartenheim-Bund).
References Die Angaben sind der rechtswirksamen Denkmalliste der Stadt Bonn entnommen. Sie wird von der Unteren Denkmalbehörde geführt, von der die Einträge zu den einzelnen Denkmälern kostenpflichtig bezogen werden können. (Akte zur Villa Rolandstraße 45, Nr. A 3645) : Architekten, Bauingenieure, Baumeister, Bauträger und ihre Bauten im Wuppertal. Pies, Wuppertal 2003, , . Jörg Moll: „Moderate Moderne“ contra „Bauhaus“. Clemens Julius Mangner, ein Wuppertaler Architekt. , architektur-wuppertal.de
Further reading Jörg Moll: „Moderate Moderne“ contra „Bauhaus“. Clemens Julius Mangner, ein Wuppertaler Architekt. In (ed.): Die Barmer Südstadt, Müller + Busmann, Wuppertal 1994, , .