!!!Theiss, Siegfried

b. Bratislava (Slovakia), Nov. 17, 1882, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 24, 1963, architect. Studied at the University of 
Technology in Vienna and with F.  Ohmann; worked with Max Ferstel. 
1907-1961 partner of H.  Jaksch in their office "Theiss & Jaksch" in 
Vienna; Professor at the University of Technology in Vienna. "Theiss & 
Jaksch" often won competitions and became known through large-scale 
orders for office and church buildings even before World War I; in the 
years between the two wars they mainly planned housing estates for the 
Municipality of Vienna. In the late 1920s they turned to a moderately 
modern style with the high-rise building in the 1st district of Vienna 
(Herrengasse; 1931-1933) as their most important example. During the 
National Socialist period they built a number of dairies, after 1945 
designed the typical shop-fronts and interior furnishings of the shops 
of the  Palmers group.

!Further works
airforce barracks at Wiener Neustadt, 1914-1917; 
miners´ barracks, Huettenberg (Carinthia) 1921-1923; Quarin-Hof, 
10th district of Vienna, 1924; workers´ residential house, Bruck 
an der Mur, 1924; sanatorium, Bad Schallerbach (Upper Austria), 
1924-1925; Sandleitenhof, 16th district of Vienna, 1924-1928 (with E. 
Hoppe, O. Schoenthal, F. Matuschek, F. Krauss and J. Toelk); grammar 
school building AHS Wenzgasse, 13th district of Vienna, 1930/31; the 
"Reichsbruecke" bridge, Vienna, 1933-1936.

!Literature
G. Schwalm-T., T. & Jaksch. Architekten 1907-1961, 1986.



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