Bernhard Hermkes
Bernhard Hermkes (born March 30, 1903 in Simmern / Hunsrück , † April 17, 1995 in Hamburg ) was a German architect and urban planner .
Life
Hermkes studied architecture in Munich and Berlin. After an internship in the architecture office of Carl Bensel and Johann Kamps in Hamburg, he finished his studies in Stuttgart with Paul Bonatz .
He found his first job at the Frankfurt am Main city planning office on the New Frankfurt project . In 1927 he started his own business and designed a dormitory for single workers. He also used the arcade house form propagated by Paul AR Frank and Anton Brenner . In 1929 he was appointed to the present HfG Offenbach as a subject teacher for three years . From 1933 to 1936 he worked as a freelance architect in Frankfurt am Main.
From 1935 he found a job with Herbert Rimpl who worked in industrial construction. Under this he was involved in the planning and construction of the Heinkel-Werke Oranienburg . He later moved to Wilhelm Wichtendahl's office , for whom he worked on the construction of the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke Regensburg plant . For Wichtendahl he went to Hamburg as site manager of the MAN ship engine plant . In 1944 he was drafted into military service. After returning from American captivity , he opened his own office in Hamburg in 1945. In 1946 and 1947 he worked in the Hamburg city planning committee, as he was considered politically unencumbered. As part of the “Hamburg Project” residential project, he was involved in the planning of the Grindel high-rise buildings and acted as spokesman for the group of architects.
His Hamburg projects were documented by the photographer Ernst Scheel .
In 1955 he became a professor for building construction and industrial construction at the Technical University of Berlin . His competition design for the redesign of Ernst-Reuter-Platz in Berlin is described as groundbreaking. Here he realized the Osram house and the building for the architecture faculty. One focus of his buildings was still in Hamburg.
His use of concrete in shell construction and folding structures is considered pioneering.
Works
- Single homes in Frankfurt am Main ( Adickesallee , 1927–1930 and Platenstrasse , 1930–1931)
- Hamburg engine plant
- Grindel skyscrapers in Hamburg (1946–1956)
- Kennedy Bridge in Hamburg (1952–1953)
- SAGA administration building , Hamburg-Altona (1952–1953)
- Philipsturm ( demolished ) and other buildings for the IGA 1953 in Hamburg Planten un Blomen
- Landesbank Kiel (1953–1954)
- Albert Schweitzer High School in Hamburg, Struckholt 27
- Vorwerk headquarters in Wuppertal (1954–1965)
- Winner in the urban planning competition Ernst-Reuter-Platz , Berlin
- Osram administration building on Ernst-Reuter-Platz in Berlin (1956–1957)
- Audimax of the University of Hamburg (1957–1958)
- Fahrsort housing estate in Hamburg-Lurup (1957–1960, together with Gerhart Becker)
- Wholesale market hall Hamburg (1958–1960)
- Veermoor housing estate in Lurup (1959–1967, together with Gerhart Becker)
- Wedel power plant (1961)
- Plant show house in the old botanical garden for the IGA 1963 in Hamburg
- Day care center of the ev. Church in Lurup (1966, together with Gerhart Becker)
- Architecture faculty of the TU Berlin on Ernst-Reuter-Platz (1966–1968)
- Kleiberweg settlement in Lurup (1967, together with Gerhart Becker)
- Administration of Allianz Insurance , Hamburg (1969–1971)
Honors
The Bernhard-Hermkes Street in Frankfurt-Kalbach was named in April 2013 after it.
Web links
- Bernhard Hermkes In: architekten-portrait.de.
- Bernhard Hermkes. In: arch INFORM .
- Plans and project drawings for the architecture building of the TU Berlin in the architecture museum of the university
- Literature by and about Bernhard Hermkes in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bernhard Hermkes Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Norbert Rohde : Historical military objects of the Oberhavel region -Band 1-, Das Heinkel-Flugzeugwerk Oranienburg, Velten Verlag GmbH, Leegebruch 2006, ISBN 3-9811401-0-9 , p. 24
- ↑ Hans Bunge: Ernst Scheel Photographer 1903 - 1986 , . Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86218-076-9 .
- ↑ Official Journal for Frankfurt am Main , Volume 144, No. 17, City of Frankfurt am Main, April 23, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hermkes, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and urban planner, university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Simmern / Hunsrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1995 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |