Alfred Martens

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Alfred Martens (born July 2, 1881 in Borken , † August 27, 1920 in Hooksiel ) was a German architect .

Life

Alfred Martens appeared as an architect in the late founding period of the German Empire , when in 1910 an urban building construction department was established under his leadership in the municipal building department of the then independent industrial town of Linden near Hanover . By 1911 at the latest, Martens was also a government architect .

On World War I Martens took on as an officer, most recently with the degree of captain d. L. part and was seriously injured physically and mentally.

Martens was a member of the Hanover Architects and Engineers Association and was elected its deputy chairman. At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , as head of the Linden city building department, he and Richard Behrens, head of the Linden building police department, developed a development plan for a low-rise housing estate in Ricklingen in the spring of 1919 . The settlement in the Ricklinger "Gredelfeld", the "Siedlung Gredelfeld", was founded mainly by the Magistrate - Building Councilor Mertens.

In the summer of 1920 Martens sought recovery from the wounds he had suffered from the World War in the seaside resort of Hooksiel on the North Sea coast. There he died of a heart attack on August 27th while bathing.

Martensplatz

The square in today's Oberricklingen district , which was laid out in the year of Alfred Martens' death and whose traffic route leads from Menzelstrasse to Schwedenpfad, was named Martensplatz when it was built in 1920 in honor of the municipal building council.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Martensplatz , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 170
  2. ↑ a b c Walter Buschmann : Linden. History of an industrial city in the 19th century. (= Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony. Volume 92) Lax, Hildesheim 1981, ISBN 3-7848-3492-2 (revised new edition, Hahn, Hannover 2012, ISBN 978-3-7752-5927-9 ), p. 259, 304
  3. ↑ Verkehrstechnische Woche and railway technology magazine , Vol. 6, 1911, p. 571; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ a b c o.V. : Affairs of the association / Alfred Martens † , in: Zeitschrift für Architektur und Ingenieurwesen , published by the Architects and Engineers Association of Hanover, vol. 66–67, Hanover: Carl Rümpler, 1920, p. 167; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Martens, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Hanoverian building officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Bark
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1920
Place of death Hooksiel