Adolf Sommerfeld (building contractor)
Adolf Sommerfeld , also Andrew Sommerfield (born May 4, 1886 in Kolmar , † February 18, 1964 in Baden AG ) was a German-British building contractor .
Life
After a carpenter teaching , he created a construction company in Berlin, where he more construction and Terrain companies under the umbrella of AHAG-Sommerfeld merged into a group of companies.
In 1923 Sommerfeld financed the construction of the model house Am Horn , which was built for the first Bauhaus exhibition from August 15 to September 30, 1923 in Weimar .
From 1922 to 1931 he was married to the writer Renée Brand . In 1926 they had a son. They lived in a house built by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer on Limonenstrasse in Berlin-Lichterfelde , the Sommerfeld blockhouse (Limonenstrasse 30, 12203 Berlin, partially destroyed). Sommerfeld was friends with the expressionist sculptor Arminius Hasemann .
When the National Socialists staged a shootout in front of his house on Limonenstrasse in March 1933, the Jewish Sommerfeld emigrated to Palestine and later to Great Britain. After 1945 he returned as Andrew Sommerfield , took over the remainder of his group of companies and continued building work in Germany.
Services
Adolf Sommerfeld shaped the southwest of Berlin. He worked with the architects Walter Gropius , Alfred Schild , Fred Forbát and Bruno Taut . In Berlin-Zehlendorf he built the forest settlement Onkel Toms Hütte and provided for the extension of today's underground line U3 from Thielplatz to Krumme Lanke . In 1924, Sommerfeld received the order from the League of Nations to build ten thousand houses for Greek refugees from Asia Minor.
His main field of activity was suburban, rational housing and settlement construction. From 1926 onwards he worked intensively on mass housing as a solution to urban planning and social problems and advocated the rationalization of the construction industry.
In 1927 Sommerfeld acquired 100 hectares in Kleinmachnow from the large landowner Dietloff von Hake . It began in 1932 in the construction phase at the Düppelpfuhl with 150 houses. Sommerfeld marketed the new district with Siedlungsgesellschaft mbH Kleinmachnow , whose sole shareholder he was most recently. Despite his emigration in 1933, the settlement was completed by 1938. The settlement was celebrated as an exemplary German colony by the National Socialists.
Honors
The Sommerfieldring in Berlin-Wannsee was named after him.
literature
- Celina Kress: Between Bauhaus and Bürgerhaus - The projects of the Berlin contractor Adolf Sommerfeld , Diss. 2008 [1]
- Celina Kress: Adolf Sommerfeld - Andrew Sommerfield. Building for Berlin 1910–1970 . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-081-8 .
Web links
- Summer field ring. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert ) - further information on the person of Sommerfeld
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephan Finsterbusch: Bauhaus No. 1 . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , August 12, 2016. Accessed August 16, 2016.
- ↑ Bauhaus 100. In: bauhaus-online.de. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Celina Kress: Adolf Sommerfeld - Andrew Sommerfield. Building for Berlin 1910–1970 . Lukas, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-081-8 , p. 100.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sommerfeld, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sommerfield, Andrew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German building contractor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolmar |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th February 1964 |
| Place of death | to bathe |