Adolf Falke

Adolf Falke (born January 28, 1888 in Brome ; † June 6, 1958 in Hanover ) was a German architect , draftsman , designer , set designer and local politician .

Life

One of the ten surviving, futuristic “Falke watches” in Hanover, here on Lister Platz

After attending a village school near Gifhorn, Adolf Falke fell ill with polio at the age of eight , which resulted in a shortened leg as a lifelong disability. However, the cantor of the village school encouraged him and made it possible for Falke to attend the Leibniz School in Hanover. After graduating from high school in 1910, Adolf Falke studied architecture from 1910 to 1914 at the Technical University of Hanover and at the Technical University of Munich . In Hanover he became a member of the Bauhütte zum white paper . Because of his mobility problems, he was not drafted as a soldier during World War I , but was able to work as an employee in the construction office of the Bahlsen biscuit factory with the sculptor and architect Bernhard Hoetger on the plans for Bahlsen's TET city .

From 1919 Adolf Falke ran his own architecture office and in 1920 was appointed a member of the Association of German Architects . In his office, Falke taught the future architect Hans Klüppelberg how to draw, from which a lifelong friendship developed. The later town planning officer Rudolf Hillebrecht also wanted to design “modern” and therefore worked after his studies from August 15, 1933 to February 15, 1934 with Adolf Falke, from which a paternal-friendly relationship developed.

In 1926 Adolf Falke won the competition for a so-called “normal clock”: based on his futuristic type design, the city of Hanover installed around 20 “ Falke clocks ” in the city. Ten examples of the listed "advertising clocks" can still be found in exposed places in Hanover.

In the Third Reich , however , Falke was banned from working by the Reich Chamber of Culture in 1937 because he was married to Therese Danziger , a Jew . Nevertheless, he was able to continue working in secret, for which he was given jobs by former clients and friends that were not visible to the public.

In September 1945, the British military government commissioned Falke to prepare an architectural association. After a good year in 1934 by the Sun was on November 1, 1946 Nazi conformist Association of German Architects will be re-established in Lower Saxony, chaired by Adolf Falcon to 1956 held. In addition, Falke was a member of the expert advisory board ("building maintenance advisory board") of the city of Hanover. Former councilor Adolf Falke fulfilled his former student Rudolf Hillebrecht's wish for a reference for the British military authorities and thus played a decisive role in Hillebrecht's further career.

When the Café Kröpcke was rebuilt as a temporary measure for the Export Fair in 1947 , Falke was one of the participants in a limited architecture competition that was finally won by Dieter Oesterlen's design in 1948 .

Adolf Falke worked until the last year of his life. He was buried in the Nackenberg city cemetery.

Honors

• In 1999 the city of Hanover honored Falke by naming a new street in Kirchrode as Adolf-Falke-Weg .

Work (incomplete)

Adolf Falke not only planned commercial buildings, but also designed furniture, lamps and jewelry. He also created sets for the Kestner Society and the Hanover Theater . The following are known of his work:

• until 1919: Participation in the TET city planned for Bahlsen with Bernhard Hoetger
• 1922/1923: Ferdinand Sichel warehouse in Hanover
• 1926: Garage for Daimler-Benz in Hanover
• 1926: Interior of a shop for the Bahlsen company on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin
• 1926: winning competition design for a normal or advertising watch in Hanover (type design of the so-called "Falke watches")
• 1929: Group of houses on Karl-Peters-Platz in Hanover
• 1929–1931: Liststadt residential development in Hanover, between Podbielskistraße and Defreggerstraße , on the site of the previously planned TET town ; with artists' , which then, for example, Grethe Jürgens used

From 1948 Adolf Falke built various commercial buildings in downtown Hanover, including:

• Commercial building for Hans Westermann KG in Karmarschstrasse
• 1949: Reconstruction of the main bookstore of Sachse & Heinzelmann, Georgstrasse / Windmühlenstrasse
• Knoop commercial building

Connecting wing of the primary school in Meterstraße in Hanover's Südstadt

• Commercial building for the Heutelbeck fashion house
• 1951: Falkes own house in the Schopenhauerstraße in Hanover
• 1951: Commercial building for the IG von der Linde lingerie and fashion business
• 1952: Jewish retirement home in Hanover
• 1953: Schmorl & von Seefeld bookstore in Hanover, Bahnhofstrasse 14
• 1957: Commercial building for the Hanover press
• 1957: Design of a synagogue for Hanover
• 1958: Design for the Meterstraße elementary school in Hanover (together with Rudolf Klein , executed 1959–1960)

literature

• General Artist Lexicon , Vol. 36, p. 404
• Alexander Dorner : Otto Falke. In: 100 years of building in Hanover. For the centenary of the technical university. Edler & Krische, Hannover 1931, p. 44.
• Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. 2nd edition, Schlütersche , Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , p. 322f.
• Friedrich Lindau: Adolf Falke. In: Planning and Building in Hanover in the 1950s. Schlütersche, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-530-9 .
• Helmut Knocke : Falke, Adolf. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 pp. 174, 188 , online via Google books
• Helmut Knocke: Falke, Adolf. 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. 174.
• Adolf Falke. In: Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the City of Hanover , Volume 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present. (with the collaboration of Dieter Brosius , Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer , Siegfried Müller and Helmut Plath ) Schlütersche , Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 .

Web links

Commons : Adolf Falke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Helmut Knocke: Falke, Adolf. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 174.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Friedrich Lindau: Adolf Falke. In: Planning and Building in Hanover in the 1950s. Pp. 22, 37, 98 and ö.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Alexander Dorner: Otto Falke. In: 100 years of building in Hanover. P. 44.
4. ^ Friedrich Lindau: Hans Klüppelberg. In: Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction ... p. 327.
5. ^ Friedrich Lindau: Rudolf Hillebrecht. In: Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction ... p. 325.
6. ↑ Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: middle. In annex: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 4 In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Volume 10.1: City of Hanover, Part 1. Friedrich Vieweg & Son, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 .
7. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen : Georgsplatz. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon . P. 118f.
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Helmut Knocke: Falke, Adolf. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 174.
9. ^ Friedrich Lindau: Rudolf Hillebrecht. In: Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction ... p. 68.
10. ^ Winfried Nerdinger, Cornelius Tafel: Architekturführer Deutschland. 20th century. P. 68.
11. ^ Hugo Thielen : Jokusch, Margarete. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 188.
12. ^ Hugo Thielen: Sachse & Heinzelmann. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 533.
13. ^ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Bahnhofstrasse. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon. P. 88f.