Hanns Hopp
Hanns Hopp ( born February 9, 1890 in Lübeck, † February 21, 1971 in Berlin) was a German architect.
Life
Hanns Hopp was born in Lübeck, the son of a building contractor and attended the grammar school. 1909-1911 studied Hopp at the Technical University of Karlsruhe with Friedrich Ostendorf. His studies he completed in 1913 at the Technical University of Munich with Theodor Fischer, who introduced him especially in the formal language of modernism. Hopp attended a private art school in Munich. In 1913 he went to the building department to Memel ( Prussia ), and from 1914 he worked as an architect in the city extension office in Königsberg. In 1920 he became head of the technical department of the Fair Office Königsberg ( German Ostmesse ). In 1926 he opened his own architectural practice with his office partner George Lucas and was one of the leading architects in Königsberg. As the public procurement contracts were more sparse because of the economic crisis in 1930, he focused on the construction of one-and two -family homes. At the beginning of the war Hopp was drafted as a soldier in 1940 but found indispensable for an activity in the national planning agency Königsberg. From there he moved in 1943 to a concrete construction company and was mainly involved in the construction of bunkers. The end of 1944, he used the Dresden branch, to distinguish themselves from Königsberg there, and was appointed Head of the Arts and Crafts School. In 1945 he designed a rigorous reconstruction plan for Dresden, he knew without regard to the destroyed city grown structure with bold high-rise buildings and major roads. 1946, a lectureship at the revived University of craftsmanship in Dresden was given to him. A few months later, he became head of the art school Giebichenstein in Halle ( Saale) until 1949., Where he taught an architecture class in the tradition of the Weimar Bauhaus. By Hans Scharoun Hopp was also appointed to work at the Institute for Building of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. From 1950, he became the Manager and from 1951 director of structural engineering department at the Institute for Building Construction and Urban Development in Berlin, where he was responsible for planning the blocks E and G of the Stalin Allee. He also received a master class at the run by Hermann Henselmann and Richard Paulick Bauakademie. From 1952 to 1966 he was president of the Association of German Architects in the GDR. He was awarded construction contracts for new buildings representative public, eg Culture House of Maxhiitte and the German Academy of Physical Culture. Hopp in 1957 became Professor Emeritus; He died in 1971 in Berlin.
Hopp was a member of the 2nd People's Council of the SBZ.
Stylistic development
In the early 1920s, the architectural style of Hanns Hopp was oriented in the formal language of expressionism, influenced by the Bauhaus in 1930. In the 1930s, he followed in his private residences to the spirit of time, but still based on a traditionalist style of modernity. After the Second World War, he sought a renewal of influenced by the Bauhaus modernism, but then took part in the government contracts in neoclassical style in the Stalin Allee and other large buildings.