Hermann Henselmann

Hermann Henselmann ( born February 3, 1905 in Roßla; † January 19, 1995 in Berlin) was a German architect. His work influenced architecture and urban planning in the GDR in the 1950s and 1960s.

Life

Hermann Henselmann studied by a carpenter at the Craftsman and Arts and Crafts School Berlin, found work in architectural offices and received in 1930 his first separate job. The he designed in the 1930s villas and single-family homes are examples of consistent modernity. After he was having trouble with the ruling Nazis because of Jewish ancestry, he had to give up his own office and was employed architect. He lived in the 30s some time with his family in Wilhelmshorst in Berlin.

After the war, Hermann Henselmann was first city architect in Gotha and from 1946 to director at the Academy of Construction in Weimar, then from 1949 Head of Department at the Institute of Civil Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, Berlin ( GDR ). Here Henselmann revised the early 1950s, his " modernist " approach to architecture and took the ideas of Socialist Realism. Its architectural success, particularly in the context of the Stalin Allee project led in 1953 to the appointment of chief architect to the City Council of Greater Berlin ( until 1959 ). He then headed different design brigades and from 1964 to 1967 then the Institute for type configuration ( VEB ) to which he is the industrially-oriented mass production in a residential area turned to. Until 1972 he was deputy director of the Institute for Urban Planning and Architecture, Academy for. 1972 Hermann Henselmann retired. He lived among other things, in one of which he designed tower skyscrapers at Strausbergerplatz in Berlin.

As one of the masterpieces of his work, the 1961-1964 built according to his plans Teacher's House (12 floors) are considered together with the Congress Hall ( Berlin Alexanderplatz).

Hermann Henselmann is the grandfather of actress Anne -Sophie Briest.

Structures ( selection)

Skyscraper on the Weberwiese in Berlin

Jentower

Construction projects Frankfurter Tor

Awards

Publications

  • Hermann Henselmann: Travel in both familiar and unfamiliar. Berlin 1969.
  • Irene Hensel, Hermann Henselmann: The big book of building. Children's book publishing house, Berlin 1976.
  • Hermann Henselmann: Three trips to Berlin, the CV and way of life of a German architects in the last century of the second millennium Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1981.
  • Hermann Henselmann: pull from the sky to the drawing board. Selected Essays 1936 until 1981. Architects in socialism. Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-922993-01- X.
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