Origins
Wilhelm Dewender (1927–2011)
Architect and Engineer in Wachtendonk
His professional and entrepreneurial achievements laid an important foundation for the later establishment and development of the Foundation.
Wilhelm Dewender in his later years
Handwritten notes on important milestones in his life
School class photograph in Bühne (1941)
Office and family residence in Wachtendonk (1962)
Biographical timeline
- Born on 19 January 1927 in Bühne (today part of Borgentreich), District of Höxter.
- 1933 to 1941 School years and childhood in Bühne.
- 1941 to 1943 Agricultural assistant with Heinrich Götte, Bühne.
- 1943 to 1944 Apprenticeship as a mason with Wilhelm Schulte, Warburg.
- 1944 to 1948 Military service, wartime injury and imprisonment as a prisoner of war in Amiens, France.
- 1948 to 1950 Completion of masonry training with Oelrich, Bühne; qualified as a journeyman mason.
- 1950 to 1954 State School of Civil Engineering in Höxter (later the University of Applied Sciences Lippe and Höxter, now OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts); Specialisation: Structural Building Construction; Qualification: Ingenieur
- 1954 to 1956 Architectural office of Nisters in Wankum
- 1956 Founded his own architectural office in Wankum
- 1967 Reclassification to the right to use the engineering degree Ingenieur (grad.)
- 1970 Entered in the Register of Architects of the Chamber of Architects of North Rhine-Westphalia (AKNW)
- 1982 Reclassification to the right to use the engineering degree Dipl.-Ing.
- 1995 Handed over the engineering office to Norbert Dewender; subsequently continued to work as senior partner
- Married Wilma Timmermanns (28 May 1931 – 23. November 2005), a bank employee, on 6 May 1958 in Wankum; Moved from Wankum to Wachtendonk.
- Daughter Edith was born on 13 June 1959 and passed away on the same day.
- Son Norbert was born on 16 November 1961.
- Construction of a new office and residential building and relocation from Kuhdyck to Kempener Str. 11 1962.
- Died on 21 July 2011 in Wachtendonk.