Alfred Runge (architect, 1880)

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Alfred Friedrich Claus Runge (born August 7, 1880 in Flörkensdorfer Mühle, today part of Ahrensbök ; † 1961 in Lübeck-Travemünde ), was a German architect . Some of his buildings are now listed .

Life

Alfred Runge was a son of the tenant Ferdinand Friedrich Runge and his wife Anna Dorothea Emma, ​​nee. Wagner. He studied architecture at the universities of Hanover and Karlsruhe as well as at the Lübeck Building School, a predecessor of the Lübeck Technical University . From 1901 he worked (with a break in 1903) in Lübeck as an architect in 1904 with Carl Hahn Hahn & Runge Bureau of Architecture and Construction in the Broad Street 85-87, 1926 with Wilhelm Lenschow as office Runge & Lenschow in Königstraße 57. His early buildings are part of Schleswig-Holstein's homeland security architecture , those of the 1920s are characterized by brick expressionism. Since 1904 he was a member of the Association of German Architects , since 1908 of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities .

buildings

Former consumer department store on Klingenberg

literature

  • Werner Hegemann : Proposals for the renovation of the Lübeck Marienkirche. Architects: Runge and Lenschow BDA in: Städtebau 20 (1925), H. 3/4, P. 64
  • Runge and Lenschow. With an introduction by Martin Richard Möbius (= Neue Werkkunst ) Friedrich Ernst Hübsch Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1929

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. Lübeckische Blätter 50 (1908), p. 807
  2. Anke Hoffsten: The People's House of the labor movement in Germany: community buildings between everyday and utopia. Cologne; Vienna; Weimar: Böhlau 2017 ISBN 978-3-412-50734-3 , p. 478f.