Albert Speer junior

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Albert Speer in April 2010

Albert Friedrich Speer (born July 29, 1934 in Berlin ; † September 15, 2017 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German urban planner , architect and university lecturer . He ran an international architecture and planning office in Frankfurt am Main.

Life

Albert Speer was the son of the architect and Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition Albert Speer (1905–1981) and Margarete born in the period of National Socialism . Weber (1905-1987). He was the oldest of six children and lived near Berchtesgaden until he was 11 years old . His father was imprisoned until 1966.

In 1945 his mother moved with the children to live with their grandparents in Heidelberg . Because of his severe stuttering, Speer left school and began an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Heidelberg in 1952, which he completed in 1955 with a journeyman's certificate. He made up his Abitur at the evening grammar school . In 1955 he began to study architecture at the Technical University of Munich . From 1960 to 1964 he worked in various architectural offices in Germany, Sweden and Turkey, among others. From 1960 he was a member of the Association of German Architects . Because of his father and the associated possible bias of the jury , he participated anonymously in several competitions.

In 1964 he won second prize in an international competition for relocating train stations and designing the city center in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . He then founded his own office for urban and regional planning in Frankfurt am Main .

In 1968 the city and regional planning of West Tripolitania in Libya was the first order abroad. Albert Speer had been a member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning since 1970 . In 1972 the Technical University of Kaiserslautern appointed him to the chair for urban and regional planning, where he helped to set up and significantly shape the spatial and environmental planning course . At times he was dean of the ARUBI department (architecture, spatial and environmental planning, civil engineering). In 1994 Albert Speer received a visiting professorship at the ETH Zurich . His teaching activities lasted until 1997. In 2011 Albert Speer was awarded an honorary professorship (TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor) at the Technical University of Munich.

Albert Speer's first marriage was to the journalist Rut Winkler . Since 1972 he was married to the actress Ingmar Zeisberg in his second marriage . His sister is the former politician of the Greens Hilde Schramm .

In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine in 1999, Speer said that he had been asked about his father's crimes all his life and that it was not easy for him. Der Spiegel was of the opinion that nobody was responsible for their parents' acts, but that everyone was responsible: “That also includes asking yourself whether a German progressive architect should design court buildings for Saudi Arabia. ... [this] is much easier to answer. With a no. ”Speer drafted the plans for a courthouse in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh .

From 2010 until his death Speer was a member of the board of trustees of the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain .

architecture office

Speer founded his first architecture office in Frankfurt am Main in 1964. In the mid-1960s, the range of work included the planning of new residential areas , land use plans , old town renovations in medieval cities such as Lübeck , Speyer and Worms as well as regional planning studies in Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse . In 1972 he was commissioned by DG Bank in Frankfurt am Main for the first major national architectural project .

In the early 1970s, several international projects were added in North Africa and Asia. 1973 began eight years of advisory work for the Algerian government. In 1977 orders from the Saudi Arabian government followed. To this day, various plans for Riyadh are being worked on, for example the diplomatic quarter with the Community Center , the Ministry of Water and Electricity and various urban development and transport planning projects.

The office has been advising Messe Frankfurt on its planning since 1979 . In particular, this activity is currently visible through the development of the Europaviertel on the site of the old Frankfurt freight station. Since then, the office has also supported the city of Frankfurt with planning and advisory work. Examples of this are the Museumsufer and Holbeinsteg , large areas of Frankfurt Airport and parts of the skyline .

In 1984 Albert Speer and colleagues founded the AS&P - Albert Speer & Partner office in Frankfurt am Main, which currently has over 180 employees and is one of the largest and most renowned offices for architecture and urban planning in Germany. At times the office also had project offices in Hanover and Berlin.

In 1994, the creation of a development structure for a district in Tianjin paved the way for further large Chinese projects. Since the turn of the millennium, the office has drawn attention in particular with the following work:

Master plan for EXPO 2000 Hanover
BMW branch in Dreieich
Victoria Tower Mannheim
Oval at Baseler Platz Frankfurt am Main
Europaviertel Frankfurt am Main (model)

Engagement in China

In 2001 an office was opened in Shanghai in order to be able to act and react on site during the planning. This representative office has been a Chinese company since spring 2007, which is 100% owned by AS&P. In 2009, more than 100 employees worked in the office.

In January 2006, the office prevailed in a design competition against architecture firms from Japan, China and the USA. The office took over the planning for a 120 km² automobile city with 300,000 inhabitants near the Chinese industrial metropolis Changchun .

Prizes and awards (selection)

In 1964 Albert Speer won second prize in the international competition in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. In 1966 he was awarded the prize of the German Building Exhibition for Young Architects for the satellite town Birkenheide project . In 1998 he won first prize in the competition for the construction of a new administration building for Westdeutsche Immobilienbank and Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz in Mainz.

In 2003 Albert Speer received the Goethe plaque from the city of Frankfurt am Main , one of the most prestigious awards in his hometown. "Albert Speer's influence on the urban development of Frankfurt cannot be overestimated," was the reason given. It is thanks to him that the city has found a new identity.

In 2004 he received the architecture award from the Association of German Architects and Engineers' Associations .

In October 2006 Speer was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his scientific commitment and the associated further development of architecture and urban planning . Speer gave life in the city a new face, had a decisive influence on science and represented Germany worldwide as a recognized architect and urban planner.

Speer has been a member of the National Urban Development Policy Board of Trustees of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development since 2007 .

Foundation, endowment

In 1995 Albert Speer set up a foundation that was recognized as the "Professor Albert Speer Foundation" by decision of December 13, 1994 by the Darmstadt regional council.

For the purpose of the foundation, the statutes say: “The purpose of the foundation is to promote young academics in the field of architecture and planning by granting scholarships, grants, study abroad and / or a prize for architects and planners over the age of 35 have not yet completed, can be awarded every 2 years. "

Interviews

  • Gerhard Matzig: Albert Speer about size. Interview with Albert Speer junior. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 30, 2010, p. 66.

Literature (selection)

  • Albert Speer: The intelligent city. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-421-03033-2 .
  • Lothar Juckel , Diedrich Praeckel (Hrsg.): Stadtgestalt Frankfurt: Speer's contributions to urban development on the Main 1964–1995. With contributions by Dieter Bartetzko . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-421-03068-5 .
  • Paulhans Peters : Albert Speer & Partner, Planning and Building, Urbanism and Architecture. Birkhäuser, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-7643-5265-5 .
  • Ulrike Stark: Architects. Albert Speer and Speerplan. Fraunhofer Irb, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8167-3035-3 .
  • Jeremy Gaines, Stefan Jäger: Albert Speer & Partner. A manifesto for sustainable urban planning. Think Local, Act Global. Prestel Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7913-4206-1 .
  • They were at zero . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 2015 ( online - Spiegel interview).

Web links

Commons : Albert Speer junior  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Speer junior is dead. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Hitler was a nice uncle for us . Interview with Gerhard Matzig in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on April 30, 2010
  3. ^ Susanne Beyer: Urban development - penguins in the desert . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 2013, p. 112-116 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Kulturfonds-frm.de
  5. ↑ metropoleruhr typically - Information Service Ruhr
  6. ↑ Members of the National Urban Development Policy Board of Trustees ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ www.albert-speer.de
personal data
SURNAME Speer, Albert junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speer, Albert Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 15th September 2017
Place of death Frankfurt am Main