Bernhard Klemm

Bernhard Klemm (born July 15, 1916 in Dresden ; † April 16, 1995 there ; full name Bernhard Erich Kurt Klemm ) was a German architect , monument conservator and university professor .

Life

New buildings on Grunaer Strasse

Bernhard Klemm's grave in Dresden

Klemm attended the Dreikönigschule in Dresden until 1935 and studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart and at the Technical University of Dresden from 1935 to 1940 . Paul Schmitthenner and Paul Bonatz were among his teachers . He then worked for a year in the architecture office of Hans Freese in Dresden. There he was busy in 1941 with the design for the tower house on the north-south axis in Berlin. In 1942 he successfully passed the examination for the higher civil service as a government architect ( assessor ). From 1943 he headed Adolf Muesmann's architectural office in Dresden for a year . From 1944 he was then chief architect and senior site manager at Schilling & Graebner in Dresden for a year. There he replaced the previous chief architect Johannes Rascher , who had moved to the Reichsheimstättenamt to participate in the DAF's planning for the reconstruction.

Klemm returned to Dresden in 1945 and became an architect and site manager in Ragnar Hedlund's architectural office . From 1949, Klemm worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Dresden and from 1949 to 1950 he was also head of the "Hotel and Restaurant Operations" construction department. In 1951, Klemm succeeded Emil Leibold as chief architect of VEB Projektierung Sachsen. As head of the design department, among other things, he worked out reconstruction plans for the city of Dresden. His central buildings include the drafts for the reconstruction of Grunaer Straße , at the corner of Blochmannstraße, which were implemented until 1952 and then criticized by the authorities as “still rooted in formalism”.

In 1951, Klemm became an assistant and, from 1952, a senior assistant at the chair for building theory and building design at the Dresden University of Technology, headed by Heinrich Rettig . In 1952, Klemm took on a teaching position for technical studies at the Technical University of Dresden, in 1954 for building theory and design, and in 1956 for teaching building design. In the following year he became a lecturer for handicrafts and received his doctorate in 1962 with his dissertation The renovation of the Görlitz Peterskirchviertel . In the 1950s and 1960s, Klemm was intensely involved in the inventory and safeguarding of old town centers in Görlitz , Pirna and Meißen, among others . A redevelopment concept for the Inner New Town in Dresden also dates back to 1961 .

From 1969, Klemm taught as a lecturer for the preservation and reconstruction of buildings at the Technical University of Dresden and thus became the founder of the postgraduate degree in monument preservation at the university. From 1976 to 1981 he was associate professor for building theory and design at the architecture section of the Technical University of Dresden. Jürgen Schieferdecker was one of his students . The declared monument protection expert Klemm was a member of the castles committee of the European Economic Commission of the UN. The city of Hamburg awarded him the Fritz Schumacher Prize in 1983 . Since 1981, emeritus , died clamp 1995 in Dresden and was on the exterior Plauenschen cemetery buried.

Klemm's estate is at the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony and in the university archive of the Technical University of Dresden .

buildings

Former “Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander” University of Education in Dresden

• 1951–1952: Residential development on Grunaer Strasse 7–43 in Dresden
• 1963–1965: Reconstruction of the Dreikönigsschule in Dresden, which was destroyed in 1945, as an institute building for the "Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander" college of education (since 1994 building of the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art ), with Joachim Poppe
• 1968–1974: Redevelopment plan for the residential area Förstereistraße, Timäussstraße, Alaunstraße in the Outer Neustadt of Dresden, with Karl-Heinz Hertzschuch
• Reconstruction of the house at Peterstraße 11/12 in Görlitz

Literature and Sources

• Bernhard Klemm. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 456-457.
• Bernhard Sterra et al .: Dresden and its architects. Currents and tendencies 1900–1970 . Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Husum 2011, pp. 24–25, 190–191.
• Walter May, Werner Pampel, Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.
• Werner Durth , Jörn Düwel , Niels Gutschow : Architecture and urban planning of the GDR. Volume 1. Ostkreuz: People, Plans, Perspectives. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1998, ISBN 3-593-35933-2 .
• Werner Durth, Jörn Düwel, Niels Gutschow: Architecture and urban planning of the GDR. Volume 2. Structure: cities, topics, documents. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1998, ISBN 3-593-35933-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Durth et al., Volume 2, p. 443.
2. ↑ Durth et al., Volume 1, p. 209.
3. ↑ Durth et al., Volume 1, p. 233.
4. ^ Technical University of Dresden (ed.): Graves of professors of the alma mater dresdensis in cemeteries in Dresden and the surrounding area. 2nd edition, Lausitzer Druck- und Verlagshaus, 2003, p. 33.
5. ↑ May et al., P. 44, no. 51 (residential development Grunaer Str. 7–43)
6. ↑ May et al., P. 41, No. 45 (2) (University of Education "Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander", institute building)
7. ↑ May et al., P. 40, No. 42 (redevelopment plan for residential area Förstereistr., Timäussstr., Alaunstr.)
8. ↑ Jürgen Schieferdecker: The renovation of the old town and its protagonist - The architect Bernhard Klemm, DNN No. 163 of July 14, 2016, p. 8, see [1]