Andreas Hamann (architect)

Andreas Hamann (born July 19, 1884 in Schwerin ; † March 15, 1955 in Hanover ) was a German architect and construction clerk .

Life

Hamann was the first born son of the architect Gustav Hamann , his mother was Henriette Marianne Evers. He had eight siblings. The family had lived in the house at Mozartstrasse 14 in Schwerin since 1902, which was designed by Gustav Hamann.

Hamann attended the Schwerin secondary school and studied architecture at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg and at the Munich Art Academy . He passed the main diploma examination in 1909, followed by the 2nd state examination in 1913 and the appointment as government master builder ( assessor in public building administration). The following time as a probationary civil servant he spent at various institutions with a wide range of activities.

On October 1, 1919 Hamann became the city building called the city of Schwerin and additionally received from the magistrate head of the Housing Department transferred. As a town planning officer, he was responsible for supervising the town's buildings, advising the building authorities, had to decide on building cost subsidies and monitored the development plans and their safeguarding in terms of structural engineering. His buildings and designs are stylistically assigned to Brick Expressionism and New Building .

Hamann's last work as town planning officer is the monumental KGW machine building hall, which opened as a festival hall in 1934. The multi-purpose hall, which can hold several thousand visitors, was intended by the Nazi rulers for rallies and cultural events. Hamann did not implement changes requested by the Gauleiter and other parties involved; as a result, he was released on September 19, 1934 at the age of 50 with a correspondingly low pension .

On May 12, 1945, Richard Crull, mayor of Schwerin since 1942, was dismissed by the US military authorities. The former Wismar city councilor Heinz Maus was appointed as mayor. Hamann was reinstated as town planning officer, but was soon appointed town councilor for economy. But in June 1950, when he refused to take part in a German-Soviet friendship rally in Schwerin, he fell out of favor with the city administration and resigned as a city planning officer. The only way he could avoid imminent arrest was to flee quickly to West Germany.

Hamann died on March 15, 1955 in Hanover and was buried in the family grave in the old cemetery in Schwerin.

plant

From 1925, the Schwerin cemetery administration campaigned for the project of a crematorium with a mourning and morgue in the old cemetery. Andreas Hamann's first planned construction variant with a cost of 325,000 Reichsmarks was rejected by the Schwerin city representatives, the second, much smaller design (which was about a third cheaper) was accepted in June 1929. On December 14, 1930, the expressionist brick building was inaugurated.

In 1926 the Schwerin magistrate decided to redesign Marienplatz to build a new public lavatory on Totendamm . The expressionist building designed by Hamann was completed in the summer of 1927, and the construction costs were 19,800 Reichsmarks (RM).

A preliminary design made by Hamann for a new town hall building in February 1928 was not implemented, and the town house , Am Packhof 2-6 , was built later .

The former girls' secondary school (Niklotschule), which was inaugurated in April 1930, is one of the first-class architectural monuments in Schwerin. The construction costs amounted to approx. 800,000 RM. A 13 x 3.80 meter swimming pool was built in the building. In 1957/58, the wing of the Andreas Hamann school building on the courtyard side was expanded by the architects Otto Greese / Heinrich Handorf . This is a three-storey extension. Up to the start of school on April 10, 1958, the costs amounted to 480,000 marks. Since 2005 the Niklotschule has been a commercial training center for around 1,800 apprentices in the fields of business, trade and administration, as well as a technical school for health and social affairs.

Another Hamann project came into being around 1930 with the extension of what was then the city hospital on Werderstrasse , which was built from 1839 to 1841 based on designs by the then court architect Georg Adolf Demmler .

Other designs by Hamann concerned waiting shelters for the tram, accumulation buildings for the power station, residential buildings in Neumühle and the garden city.

• 1927: Tram waiting hall and kiosk with public toilets on Totendamm / Goethe Street in Schwerin
• 1930: Crematorium and funeral devotional hall in the old cemetery in Schwerin (inauguration December 14, 1930)
• 1930: Niklot School in Schwerin (inauguration on April 29, 1930)
• 1930: Extension of the Werder Clinic in Schwerin (2012-2014 refurbished main administration building used by VR-Bank Schwerin )
• 1932/1934: Housing development in Neumühle and in the garden city in Schwerin
• 1934: Festhalle (KGW machine building hall) in Schwerin, Wismarsche Straße
• Accumulator stations for the Schwerin power station
• Tram shelters

literature

• Hamann, Andreas. In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania? Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 . / Hinstorff, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01405-1 .
• Gerhard Steiniger: Andreas Hamann, city planner of stature. In: Mecklenburg – Magazin , regional supplement Schwerin, year 1996, No. 19, page 10.
• Bernd Kasten, Jens-Uwe Rost: Schwerin. History of the city. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2005, ISBN 3-935749-38-4 , page 74 f. and page 231 f.
• Udo Brincker: Chronicle of the city of Schwerin. Schwerin 2011, page 237 and page 373.
• Schwerin live monthly information magazine December 2017 issue (111) page 28. On December 14, 1930 the mourning hall with crematorium in the old cemetery is inaugurated. Author: S.Krieg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HJFA: Niklot school. The Bauhaus style school. In: Schweriner Express of September 16, 2017, page 2.
2. ↑ Schweriner Express of November 4, 2017, page 2.