Adolf Hanser

Administrative Court of Karlsruhe

Grand Ducal District Office Mannheim

Adolf Hanser (born August 2, 1858 in Friedrichshafen , † October 18, 1901 in Karlsruhe ) was a German architect , Baden construction clerk and building trade school teacher.

Act

Adolf Hauser studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic . From 1882 to 1883 he worked as an employee in the office of the architect Paul Wallot in Frankfurt am Main , where Wallot's design for the Reichstag building in Berlin was created at that time . Then Hanser went on a long study trip to Italy .

In 1884 he opened his own architectural office in Mannheim . From 1890 to 1898, Adolf Hanser taught as a professor at the building trade school in Karlsruhe . In 1898 he moved from the building trade school to the state building administration of the Grand Duchy of Baden and worked as a building officer and structural engineering consultant in the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Finance, in 1900 he was promoted to senior building officer.

City Hall West (Karlsruhe)

Buildings and designs

In Karlsruhe

• Extension of the Palais Bürklin
• 1895–1896: Bank building for the Rheinische Creditbank , Waldstrasse (used today by BBBank )
• 1895–1898: Administration building of the Karlsruher Lebensversicherung , today City Hall West
• 1899–1901: Preliminary drafts for the administration building of the Baden Chamber of Accounts , the building of the Baden General State Archives and the building of the Baden Administrative Court ( revised by Friedrich Ratzel after Hanser's death and executed 1902–1905)

In other places

• 1900–1901: Bank building for the Rheinische Creditbank in Strasbourg
• 1900–1901: Draft for the administrative building of the Baden District Office Mannheim (1902/1903 executed by Ludwig Levy )

literature

• Wolfram Förster: Adolf Hanser (1858–1901). An architect from Baden. (= Ingenium , Volume 1.) (publication accompanying the exhibition at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, University of Technology) Karlsruhe 2001, ISBN 3-935893-01-9 .
• Bernhard J. Lattner, Roland Feitenhansl: Silent contemporary witnesses. 900 years of Karlsruhe architecture. Edition Lattner, 2007.

Web links

• Literature on Adolf Hanser in the state bibliography of Baden-Württemberg