Adolf Springer (architect)

Adolf Springer (born September 5, 1886 in Strehlen , † September 20, 1978 in Hanover ) was a German architect.

Life

The administrative building built by Springer in 1935 for the JH Lerch company , today the seat of the Lower Saxony State Chancellery

Born in Silesia at the time of the German Empire , Adolf Springer spends his apprenticeship and training time in Hanover, including in the office of the architect Wilhelm Mackensen .

In the middle of World War I , Springer became a member of the Hannoversche Bauhütte in 1917 .

At the time of the Weimar Republic , Springer joined the Association of German Architects (BDA) and, after the Nazi era and the air raids on Hanover in World War II , was one of the re-founders of the BDA under the British military authorities in 1946, which later - 1967 - appointed honorary member.

Moreover Adolf Springer served as a member of the competition - Committee of the BDA and the building committee of the state capital Hanover.

Works (selection)

In addition to various residential buildings, including on Altenbekener Damm and in Döhren and Linden , Adolf Springer also created the following buildings:

1921, together with Wilhelm Mackensen and Fritz Torno : Commerzbank building , Theaterstraße 11/12 ;
1927–1930, together with Alexander Kölliker and Wilhelm Fricke : various buildings in the garden city of Kleefeld ;
1929, together with Alexander Kölliker: World Games (canceled in 1994), Georgstraße at the corner of Kleine Packhofstraße ;
1929, later again in 1949: Palast-Lichtspiele , Bahnhofstrasse 5 ;
1935: Administration building in neoclassical style for the technology wholesaler JH Lerch , Planckstrasse 2/3 , later the seat of the Lower Saxony State Chancellery ;
1935–1936: Ernst-Grote-Haus , Breite Strasse, Hanover
1936: Maschsee restaurant on the north bank of the Maschsee , demolished in 1970;
1950: Reconstruction of the Niedersachsenhalle ;
1955, together with Friedel Steinmeyer : Thuringia -Haus, Friedrichswall 10 (broken off in 1998);
1958: House Stallmach , Georgstrasse at the corner of Limburgstrasse (the building was changed in 1999).

literature

General artist lexicon online

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural-historical identity , 2nd, revised edition, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2001, ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , passim ; Preview over google books
↑ Helmut Knocke : State Chancellery. 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. 583.
↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Breite Straße 10 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hanover. Art and culture lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 95

personal data
SURNAME	Springer, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	September 5, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chasing
DATE OF DEATH	20th September 1978
Place of death	Hanover

[Wiederaufbau_und_Zerstörung-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural-historical identity , 2nd, revised edition, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2001, ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , passim ; Preview over google books

[2] Helmut Knocke : State Chancellery. 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. 583.

[HKuKL-3] Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Breite Straße 10 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hanover. Art and culture lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 95