Friedrich Lindau
Friedrich Lindau (born May 10, 1915 in Quedlinburg ; † November 7, 2007 in Hanover ) was a German architect . He was the founding president of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects .
Life
1970 in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
Lindau grew up in Stendal and from 1935 studied architecture for a year at the Technical College in Buxtehude , then until 1939 at the Technical University of Hanover . He did military service until 1945 and then until 1951 he was an assistant at the Technical University of Hanover. 1951 founded his own architectural office in Hanover.
Friedrich Lindau created a number of trend-setting administrative buildings in Hanover in the 1950s. He dealt significantly with urban renewal after the end of the Second World War . He has published several books on Hanover and Hanover's urban planning.
In 1951 he was admitted to the Association of German Architects (BDA) and was elected 2nd chairman in 1955 and 1st chairman in 1957 of the Hanover district group of the BDA. From 1964 to 1968 he was 1st Chairman of the Lower Saxony Regional Association of the BDA, and since 1968 honorary member. In the same year, Lindau founded the State Association of Lower Saxony Architects' Associations (LGNA), from which the Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects emerged in 1970 , of which he was founding president from 1970 to 1975.
Friedrich Lindau was buried in the Herrenhausen cemetery .
In their will , Friedrich Lindau and his wife Ingeborg bequeathed their shared apartment and office building, in which Ingeborg lived until her death in 2012, to the Laves Foundation of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects. After the building was sold, the Chamber added the proceeds to the foundation's assets and announced that it would be more intensively involved in the architectural heritage of the 1960s and 1970s.
Honors
- 1963: The PLANO houses in Hanover-Bothfeld are included in the architecture exhibition Building in Germany 1945-1962 , Hamburg 1963
- 1976: PLANO houses Hannover-Bothfeld: Honorable recognition within the framework of the BDA Prize of the Association of German Architects (BDA)
- 1980: Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his commitment to the profession of architects
- 2005: Comprehensive exhibition of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects for the 90th birthday of "Friedrich Lindau Architect" in the Laveshaus
Work (selection)
- North entrance to the Hanover Exhibition Center
- 1952/53: Trade union building of the German Federation of Trade Unions in Lower Saxony on Klagesmarkt
- 1955–1956: Headquarters of IG Chemie-Paper-Ceramics in Hanover - significantly rebuilt in 1995. Three glass windows of the numerous works of art by Kurt Sohns have been preserved.
- International House Sonnenberg near Sankt Andreasberg
- DGB Federal School, Jump
- School for the visually impaired in Südstadt (Hanover) - a listed building since 1990
- 1955–1956: PLANO-Haus Bothfeld (Hanover) - a listed building since 1990. The term PLANO-Haus goes back to Roland Rainer .
- Housing estate on the Great Garden in Herrenhausen
- AWO retirement home in Bornum (Hanover)
- Student dormitory Haus Humanitas in Hannover-Mitte
- 1959: Senior Citizens' Center in Körtingsdorf in Hanover-Badenstedt - a listed building since 1990
- 1961: Wilhelm Gefeller Education and Conference Center of the IG BCE in Bad Münder
Fonts
- Planning and building in Hanover in the 1950s. Schlütersche, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-530-9 .
- Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. Schlütersche, Hannover 2001 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-87706-607-0 .
- Hanover - the courtly area of Herrenhausen. How the city deals with the monuments of its feudal era . With a foreword by Wolfgang Schächen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich (among others) 2003. ISBN 3-422-06424-9
- Architecture and city. Memories of a ninety-year-old Hanoverian architect. Quensen, Hannover 2005, ISBN 3-92280-587-6 .
See also
literature
- Architektur in Hannover , 2000, pp. 12, 43, 131, 146
- Helmut Knocke : Lindau, Friedrich. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 405.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Lindau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Friedrich Lindau. In: arch INFORM .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Knocke: Lindau, Friedrich (see literature)
- ↑ oV : The legacy of Friedrich Lindau on the side lavesstiftung.de , last downloaded 8 March 2017
- ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Otto-Brenner-Straße 1. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 178
- ^ Friedrich Lindau: Planning and building in the fifties in Hanover. Schlütersche, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-530-9 , p. 111 f.
- ^ Friedrich Lindau: Planning and building in the fifties in Hanover. Schlütersche, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-530-9 , p. 145
- ^ Friedrich Lindau: Planning and building in the fifties in Hanover. Schlütersche, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-530-9 , p. 121
- ^ Friedrich Lindau: Planning and building in the fifties in Hanover. Schlütersche, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-530-9 , p. 136
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lindau, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, founding president of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quedlinburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 2007 |
| Place of death | Hanover |