Bruno Grimmek

Memorial plaque on the house, Lessingstrasse 5, in Berlin-Hansaviertel

Erich Wilhelm Bruno Grimmek (born January 16, 1902 in Berlin ; † December 3, 1969 there ) was a German architect . From 1928 until he retired in 1964, he worked for the Berlin building authorities.

Life

After a year-long apprenticeship as a bricklayer, Grimmek studied architecture at the Berlin Building Trade School . After graduating, he worked in Hans Poelzig's architecture office . In 1927 he went to Gera . During the National Socialist era, he designed administration buildings for Berlin under the direction of the General Building Inspector for the Reich capital, Albert Speer . After the Second World War he became head of the design department of the building construction office in West Berlin . He designed some buildings on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds and extensions to the Technical University of Berlin and the Plötzensee Memorial . On behalf of the Federal Employment Agency , he designed the construction plans for the Wedding Employment Office .

As part of the International Building Exhibition in 1957 , he designed the America House in Hardenbergstrasse with funds from the Marshall Plan . He was also involved in the construction of numerous underground stations on underground lines 6 and 9 , which were built in the late 1950s. Stylistically, his designs continue the tradition of the functional construction of Alfred Grenander's underground stations.

buildings

• 1950: George C. Marshall House on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds (with Werner Düttmann )
• 1951–1952: Plötzensee Memorial
• 1954–1956: Institute buildings of the Technical University of Berlin , Fasanenstrasse 89–90
• 1955–1962: New buildings for the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin
• 1962–1965: Reconstruction of the wholesale flower market in Berlin-Kreuzberg
• 1956/1957: America House (Berlin)
• 1957: Palais am Funkturm (with Werner Düttmann)
• 1957: Hansa elementary school in Berlin-Hansaviertel
• 1960: Otto Suhr Institute
• 1966: New building of the Landesbildstelle Berlin
• U-Bahn stations Afrikanische Strasse , Hansaplatz , Turmstrasse , Birkenstrasse , Westhafen , Amrumer Strasse , Rehberge , Spichernstrasse .

Web links

Commons : Bruno Grimmek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kathrin Chod, Herbert Schwenk, Hainer Weisspflug: Grimmek, Bruno . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Mitte . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
• Monument areas Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Birth register StA Berlin I / II, No. 86/1902
2. ^ Death register StA Wilmersdorf of Berlin, No. 3077/1969
3. ↑ Bruno Grimmek. In: berlinischegalerie.de. February 16, 1902, Retrieved February 2, 2019 . 
4. ^ Eberhard Elfert: Employment Agency Müllerstrasse: Once the most famous employment office in Germany. In: weddingweiser.de. July 16, 2013, accessed February 2, 2019 . 
5. ^ German Embassy Washington DC ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Henriette Heischkel: The Marshall House on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds - A representative building for the USA by Bruno Grimmek . In: INSITU. Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte , 2/2009, pp. 262–276.