Hans Benno Bernoulli

Hans Benno Bernoulli ( born February 17, 1876 in Basel, † September 12, 1959 ) was a Swiss architect, urban planner and professor; he lived and worked since 1897 in Germany until he was appointed in 1912 at the ETH Zurich.

Life

Bernoulli was the son of the Bureau staff Theodor Bernoulli. The later women's rights activist and engaged in the fight against alcoholism Elisabeth Bernoulli was his sister. Bernoulli left without a degree Humanistic Gymnasium in Basel. In the same year he began an apprenticeship, but he also did not finish.

At 18, he began an apprenticeship as a draftsman with the architect Alfred Romang and Wilhelm Bernoulli. This doctrine closed Bernoulli successfully and attended 1897-1898 the Technical University of Munich. There he became a pupil of Friedrich von Thiersch. The following year, Thiersch took him as an employee at his private architecture studio.

Funded and supported by Thiersch visited Bernoulli 1900, the Technical University of Karlsruhe. After completing his studies Bernoulli volunteered in the years 1901-1902 at various architects in Darmstadt and Berlin. In 1902, he settled for ten years as a freelance architect in Berlin.

In addition to his freelance work, he was there at the same time still working as a lecturer at the Institute of Technology ( Berlin ) Charlottenburg and at the educational establishment of the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin. During this time Bernoullli also undertook several study trips to Austria, Italy and Denmark. 1904 married Bernoulli in Berlin Anna Ziegler, a daughter of the pastor Heinrich Ziegler.

1912 appointed him to the Basel construction company to its chief architect, and thus also to the Board. The following year he was entrusted Bernoulli as a lecturer of Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ ); six years later he was promoted to professor. 1938 witnessed a scandal, as Bernoulli published his satirical political poems. As Freiwirtschaftler and supporters of Silvio Gesell he had expressed very critical of the government financial policy. He was dismissed, and his professor title was taken from him because he was " intolerable " become with these views for the ETHZ.

On his 71st birthday, the University of Basel honored him with an honorary doctorate. 1947 to 1951 he sat for the national ring of Independents ( LdU ) in the National Council (representatives from Basel -Stadt).

After the Second World War, he helped build the ruined cities again. Along with Silvio Gesell founded Bernoulli Swiss Confederation free economy. As a politician, he represented social-liberal views and was very involved in social housing with garden city settlements (eg the Bernoulli houses at Hardturmstrasse in Zurich ) or the introduction of prefabricated components in the late forties.

He fought all his life speculation and sat down - in vain - for the municipalization of the soil a ( quote: " land of the city, home ownership to private persons ").

In Warsaw he was actively involved in urban planning experiments and reconstruction. In Hungary and Austria, he was a consultant. The Zurich houses should be sold at cost price to be affordable for " Büezer " (workers). It is Bernoulli with his urban views quite see in the footsteps of Friedrich Ostendorf. In addition, Bernoulli founded the magazine for a natural economic order.

At the age of 83 years Hans Bernoulli died on September 12, 1959 in Basel.

Buildings

Writings

Architecture

• From the sketchbook of an architect. Wepf, Basel, 1943.
• The organic renewal of our cities. Wepf, Basel, 1942.
• The city and its ground. Publishers for Architecture, Erlenbach 1943.
• Journal of a natural economic management.

Economic policy

• The gold dizziness. Cooperative Ver. Free Economic writings, Bern 1927.
• In the maze of money. Free Economic history of the monetary system. Publishing of Pestalozzi House, Bern 1935.

Poetry

• The rabbits and other bloody jokes about our economic management. Poems. Publishing of Pestalozzi House, Bern 1939.
• The state servant and other rhymes about the needs of our time. Poems. Seltisberg 1991.