Employment Office Dessau

Former employment office Dessau (2012)

The listed employment office in Dessau is located at August-Bebel-Platz 16 in the independent city of Dessau-Roßlau . The planner was Walter Gropius .

history

The industrialization at the beginning of the 20th century recognized the need to place and manage the unemployed and jobseekers. Based on this conviction, the Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlungs und Arbeitslosversicherung was founded in 1927 . They did not want to fall back on existing construction plans. This was the reason for a limited architectural competition in Dessau, which Walter Gropius won, supported by Carl Fieger . Incidentally, it was supposed to be the last order for Gropius's architectural office. The other competitors were Max Taut and Hugo Häring . Even before the foundation stone was laid in May 1928, Gropius quit the Bauhaus and moved to Berlin. The winning design was implemented from 1928 to 1929 with the collaboration of the Bauhaus workshops.

The demands of the Nazi regime to demolish the building were not obeyed because the war began. The building was spared from war damage.

architecture

The building is based on a steel frame construction with a yellow clinker brick facade. The floor plan is based specifically on the planned use. A functional and economic integration of the work processes in the design was a condition of the Berlin city planning officer Martin Wagner . The architects probably also took their bearings from the employment office in Dresden, which had been built two years earlier, and whose interior design had similar requirements.

The offices are in a square, two- to three-story building with a flat roof, ribbon windows and a separate entrance. The semicircular, single-storey building in front has a flat roof that is also upgraded with three semicircular shed roofs . The outward-facing glass surfaces of the shed roofs ensure that the interior of the building is permeated with light. Parts of the shed roofs can be opened using cables to ventilate the interior. A ribbon of windows runs along the outside of the building under the roof. These rooms were designed for job placement. All partition walls are glazed at the height of the ribbon window. Inside, an almost intersection-free route leads through the semicircular floor plan. The labor insurance was located in the interior of the semicircle, the cash register in the center. Six separate entrances made it possible to group job seekers in advance. There were two exits to the side.

The structure inside was lost as the requirements changed due to renovations. In 1936 more windows were installed. A partially reconstructive repair followed in 2002/03. The six entrances are partially walled up.

The shape of the building complex was integrated on what was then the triangular Askanischer Platz. After the Second World War , that square was redesigned so that the original integration can no longer be traced.

use

From June 1929 the building was used as an employment office. After the end of the war and the withdrawal of the Allies, the Soviet occupiers used it as a military administration until 1957. Then the social security of the Free German Trade Union Federation of the GDR moved into the building. After the reunification , the building was rebuilt. Today the building houses the registration office, the driver's license office and the regulatory office.

Web links

Commons : Arbeitsamt Dessau - collection of images, videos and audio files

Employment office Dessau on Bauhaus 100

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Bauhaus 100 ( Memento from September 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hans-Christian Feldmann: Orderly administrative procedures . The employment office in Dessau. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection (Hrsg.): Monuments . Magazine for monument culture in Germany. No. 5 . Monuments publications, 2019, ISSN 0941-7125 , p. 47 .
↑ ^a ^b Bauhausstadt ( Memento from July 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
^ ^A ^b Hans-Christian Feldmann: Orderly dealing with the authorities . The employment office in Dessau. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection (Hrsg.): Monuments . Magazine for monument culture in Germany. No. 5 . Monuments publications, 2019, ISSN 0941-7125 , p. 48 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Hans-Christian Feldmann: Orderly dealing with the authorities . The employment office in Dessau. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection (Hrsg.): Monuments . Magazine for monument culture in Germany. No. 5 . Monuments publications, 2019, ISSN 0941-7125 , p. 49 .

51.8295417 12.2389276Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 46.4 ″ N , 12 ° 14 ′ 20.1 ″ E

[Bauhaus_100-1] Bauhaus 100 ( Memento from September 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[Monumente47-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hans-Christian Feldmann: Orderly administrative procedures . The employment office in Dessau. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection (Hrsg.): Monuments . Magazine for monument culture in Germany. No. 5 . Monuments publications, 2019, ISSN 0941-7125 , p. 47 .

[Bauhausstadt-3] Bauhausstadt ( Memento from July 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[Monumente48-4] A ^b Hans-Christian Feldmann: Orderly dealing with the authorities . The employment office in Dessau. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection (Hrsg.): Monuments . Magazine for monument culture in Germany. No. 5 . Monuments publications, 2019, ISSN 0941-7125 , p. 48 .

[Monumente49-5] Hans-Christian Feldmann: Orderly dealing with the authorities . The employment office in Dessau. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection (Hrsg.): Monuments . Magazine for monument culture in Germany. No. 5 . Monuments publications, 2019, ISSN 0941-7125 , p. 49 .