Hans Stimmann

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Hans Stimmann

Hans Stimmann (born March 9, 1941 in Lübeck ) is a German architect and urban planner .

Life

After he had obtained the secondary school leaving certificate , Stimmann completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer from April 1958 to April 1961 , which he completed as a skilled worker . In the following years he studied architecture at the State Engineering School of the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences and obtained a degree as an engineer (grad.) In 1965.

Until 1970, Hans Stimmann was employed as an architect for industrial, residential and school construction in Frankfurt am Main . He then began studying urban and regional planning at the Technical University of Berlin , which he graduated with a degree in engineering. In 1975 he became a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning at the TU Berlin; In 1977 he received his doctorate and took up a position as a technical consultant at the Senator for Building and Housing in Berlin , which he held for four years.

From 1980 to 1985 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning at the Technical University of Berlin and at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg , after which he worked as a freelancer for a year in the office for construction and urban development in Berlin.

From 1986, Stimmann held the office of building senator in his home town of Lübeck; In 1991, the then Berlin Senator for Building and Housing Wolfgang Nagel appointed him as Senate Building Director in the Senate Department for Building and Housing in the federal capital. In this position, Stimmann shaped the construction industry in Berlin for six years. After reunification, East Berlin and West Berlin grew together there; In June 1991 the Bundestag decided to move its seat from Bonn to Berlin.

Between 1996 and 1999 he was State Secretary for Planning in the Senate Department for Urban Development, Environmental Protection and Technology. During this time, he designed, among other things, the inner city plan and emphatically advocated contextual urban development in the sense of critical reconstruction , which is based on the historical urban layout and local building typology. From December 1999 to October 2006, Stimmann again held the office of Senate Building Director. During this time he came under criticism several times (Berlin State Development Society, Topography of Terror , Spreedreieck ).

Evaluation and criticism

The construction method preferred by Stimmann was often criticized by well-known architects such as Daniel Libeskind , Richard Meier , Günter Behnisch or Michael Wilford . Stimmann's specifications would restrict the architects' work too much. Stimmann was supported by the architects Hans Kollhoff , Christoph Mäckler , Josef Paul Kleihues and Franco Stella , who saw the strict requirements as necessary for a city like Berlin.

Award

In 2009, Hans Stimmann received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his efforts to regain the Berlin city plan as a historical memory. In her laudation, Senator for Urban Development Ingeborg Junge-Reyer praised the development of Berlin into a “city of encounters and a European city” brought about by Stimmann.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , August 8, 2001: Too much debt - Senate dissolves the development company .
  2. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost , May 27, 2004: The chair of the Senate Building Director wobbles .
  3. ↑ FAZ.net January 11, 2011: The house that nobody wanted .
  4. ↑ Former Senate Building Director Dr. Stim man receives Order of Merit . Press release of the Senate Department for Urban Development from August 27, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Stimmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and State Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck