Hermann Mäckler

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Hermann Mäckler (born January 16, 1910 in Vallendar ; † October 24, 1985 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German architect and book author.

Life

In 1929 he passed his Abitur in the Episcopal Konvikt in Hadamar . Then he did an internship as a bricklayer in extension buildings in Maria Laach . There he met Martin Weber . From 1930 to 1934 he studied architecture in Offenbach. From 1934 to 1941 he worked in Martin Weber's architectural office. In 1936 he moved to the Herbert Rimpl office and worked for the Ernst Heinkel aircraft factory in Oranienburg , also as an author of various newspaper articles. In 1938 he was an employee of the housing stock corporation of the Hermann-Göring-Werke . An elaborately designed book with the title Ein Deutsches Flugzeugwerk with texts by Hermann Mäckler was published in 1940 by Herbert Rimpl. In 1942 he was head of the industrial construction department IV for shipyards in the construction office in Salzgitter. In 1944, Hermann Mäckler was used to plan the underground relocation of the armaments industry. The end of the Second World War he made in early 1946 in Frankfurt together with Alois Giefer in the architectural firm Giefer and Mäckler independently . From 1948 he led the reconstruction of the Frankfurt Imperial Cathedral , which burned out during the air raids on Frankfurt am Main .

The office was one of the prominent designers of Catholic church buildings and housing developments in the 1950s and 1960s ; It achieved national fame through buildings in Berlin's Hansaviertel and Frankfurt am Main.

Hermann Mäckler was the father of Christoph Mäckler .

Quote

"How different from a joke should the reconstructed house appear once its completely destroyed surroundings are built up."

- For the rebuilding and reconstruction of the Frankfurt Goethe House after the Second World War

Important buildings

Holy Spirit Church, Würzburg

Awards

In November 1954, the Maria-Hilf-Kirche , the Allerheiligenkirche , the girls' dormitory and the house “Fries” (all in Frankfurt am Main) were called “exemplary” by a jury that was convened by the Association of German Architects and the Hessian Minister of Finance Buildings in the State of Hesse ”. The jury included the following architects: Werner Hebebrand , Konrad Rühl , Sep Ruf and Ernst Zinsser .

literature

  • Herbert Rimpl, text and arrangement: Hermann Mäckler: Ein Deutsches Flugzeugwerk. The Heinkel-Werke Oranienburg - Berlin, Wiking, 1938 - 152 pages, photos: Heinrich Heidersberger
  • Mäckler, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 292 .
  • Hermann Mäckler 1910–1985. In: Bauwelt. No. 45/1985, p. 1762.
  • Almut Gehebe-Gernhardt: The reconstruction of the city of Frankfurt, Main using the example of the architects Alois Gefer and Hermann Mäckler , 2nd volumes. 2007. as a dissertation at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main 2006 and as CD-ROM, 2007
  • Almut Gehebe-Gernhardt: Architecture of the 1950s in Frankfurt am Main - using the example of the architectural association Alois Giefer and Hermann Mäckler . Revised version: Studies on Frankfurt History. Vol. 59, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86539-675-4 .

Web links

Commons : Hermann Mäckler  - Collection of Images

References and comments

  1. ↑ Almut Gehebe Gernhardt: Architecture of the 1950s in Frankfurt am Main - using the example of the architects Alois Giefer and Hermann Mäckler. 2011, page 131 f.
  2. ↑ Jo Sollich: Herbert Rimpl (1902–1978) architecture group under Hermann Göring and Albert Speer Architect of German Reconstruction "2013, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, p. 58
  3. ↑ Jo Sollich: Herbert Rimpl (1902-1978) architecture group under Hermann Göring and Albert Speer Architect of German Reconstruction "2013, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, p. 370
  4. ↑ Will and enthusiasm. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 7, 2011, page 39.
  5. ↑ The house is part of an overall plan with the neighboring houses of the graphic designer Hans Leistikow and the architect Alois Giefer .
  6. ↑ Award for exemplary buildings in the state of Hesse on November 6, 1954 . In: The Hessian Minister of Finance (Hrsg.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1955 no. 4 , p. 70 , point 75 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.6 MB ]).
  7. ↑ The Disappearance of Postwar Modernism. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . September 11, 2011, page R 3.
personal data
SURNAME Mäckler, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Vallendar
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1985
Place of death Frankfurt am Main