Carl Bensel

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Levantehaus, entrance portal (1912)
Bugenhagen House (1914)
Villa Heutelbeck (1926)
St. Paulus Church Billstedt (before 1930)
Johanneskirche (1937)

Carl Bensel (born April 3, 1878 in Iserlohn ; † October 11, 1949 in Hamburg ; full name: Carl Gustav Bensel ) was a German architect .

Life

After graduating from high school , Bensel first studied philosophy and art history , then switched to architecture , he attended the Technical University of (Berlin-) Charlottenburg , the Technical University of Dresden and the Technical University of Munich . As early as 1905 he passed the 2nd state examination and then worked until 1910 as a government master builder in the construction department of the Prussian Railway Directorate in Cologne under construction officer Friedrich Mettegang , most recently as head of the Krefeld railway construction department .

In 1910 he started his own business in Düsseldorf , apparently on the basis of an extensive order from a private railway company. In the following three years he worked repeatedly with other architects, including Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot and Johann Kamps . At the suggestion of Alfred Lichtwark , Bensel successfully participated in various competitions for new buildings in the Mönckebergstrasse area in Hamburg, which is why he moved to Hamburg in 1913. There, there was initially a collaboration with the real estate entrepreneur architect Franz Bach , where Bensel was primarily responsible for the facade design. The influence of the chief building director Fritz Schumacher on the Hamburg building process meant that Bensel was increasingly able to break away from traditional motifs in his designs and turn to simpler, contemporary-modern architecture.

From August 1914 to December 1918, Bensel officially served as a soldier; During the First World War , the Tiefstack power plant in Hamburg was completed, the facades of which he designed.

In 1924, Bensel's long-time employee, Johann Kamps, became his partner, and in 1929 the Altona architect Heinrich Amsinck became his third partner . The architectural office Bensel and Kamps (or Bensel, Kamps and Amsinck ) initially attracted attention with its projects in the field of residential construction, followed by successes in church construction from the mid-1920s. With its buildings, the office was one of the most important representatives of New Building in Hamburg. In addition, several projects for Greece can be proven.

As one of the most renowned architecture firms in Hamburg, Bensel, Kamps and Amsinck survived both the global economic crisis and the change of power in 1933. Adapting to National Socialist ideology, the designs after 1933 increasingly showed traditional elements related to the landscape.

After the outbreak of the Second World War , the Bensel, Kamps and Amsinck office was able to keep up with competition designs and expert opinions, which it prepared on behalf of Konstanty Gutschow , but was then dissolved in 1943 when Heinrich Amsinck retired because he was called up for military service and Johann Kamps passed away.

Carl Bensel was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), on whose board he was elected in 1931. In 1919 he became a member of the Hamburg Freemason Lodge Zum Pelikan .

He died in Hamburg at the end of 1949 and was buried in the Blankenese cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Buildings and drafts by Reg.-Baumeister a. DCG Bensel . In: Moderne Baufformen, Issue 8/1911 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Details and historical illustration of the large grave complex with a central, 8 m high Doric column by Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: Der Hamburger Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf. History and tombs , Verlag Hans Christians, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-7672-1060-6 , page 134, cat. 910.
  3. ^ Walter Müller-Wulckow : Buildings of the community . Langewiesche-Verlag, Königsstein 1928
  4. ↑ a b c d e The builder . Issue 9/1930
personal data
SURNAME Bensel, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bensel, Carl Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1949
Place of death Hamburg