Carl Rotermund

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Carl Rotermund (born August 16, 1889 in Bremen , † December 6, 1976 in Bremen) was a German architect and university professor .

biography

Rotermund studied architecture from 1906 to 1912 at the Technical University of Munich , the Technical University of Darmstadt , the Technical University of Karlsruhe and the Technical University of Danzig . As a war volunteer he took part in the First World War.

After the war he worked for the Bremen City Planning Office from 1922 to 1928 and then worked as a freelance architect in Bremen. He also worked as a lecturer at the Technikum Bremen . In 1922 he won an architecture competition for the post office in Bremen 5 ; From 1923, however, the second-placed design by Rudolf Jacobs was carried out .

From 1926 to 1927/1928 the preserved printing and publishing building of the Schünemann Verlag , Schlachte 10 / Second Schlachtpforte 7 / Martinistraße 28, was built according to his plans , in which the Bremer Nachrichten was produced. The building in the conservative style of the 1920s was rebuilt around 1952 (or 1955) and is a listed building .

His design for a town hall in Bremen from 1928 was not realized after the Second World War - as it was no longer in keeping with the times. Around 1928/1930 he was involved in the interior design of several representative rooms for the express steamers Bremen and Europa . He worked as a designer for the Eilers bridge construction company, including the old Kaiserbrücke in Bremen and a Rhine bridge near Speyer . At the end of 1932, with the title of professor , he took over the management of the Hildesheim School of Applied Arts , which he led until 1952.

In 1951/1952 Rotermund and Carsten Schröck planned the Ilsabeenstift in Bremen-St. Magnus . From 1952 he worked as a "house architect" for the Schünemann publishing house. His award-winning school building design, the school type Bremen- Huchting , was realized as a school on Willakedamm in 1959 (abandoned as a school around 2006). Another school on Wilhelm-Leuschner-Strasse in the Vahr followed in 1965. Together with his son-in-law Dr. Walter Sommer, City Planning Officer in Remscheid from 1947 to 1959, he ran a joint architecture office from 1959. Together with the architect Rolf Störmer, both planned the administration building for Gothaer Versicherung on Bremer Contrescarpe , at the corner of Rembertistraße. As the winner of the competition, they planned the south indoor swimming pool in Bremen- Neustadt in the green spaces of the Neustadtswallanlagen in 1969/1970 . With its distinctive roof with two steel pylons , this building has become a landmark of the new town. The town halls in Lingen and Großenkneten as well as school centers in Syke and Ahlhorn were built partly based on competition successes .

Rotermund was the father of three daughters, all of whom studied architecture and received their doctorates in the subject.

literature

  • Carl Rotermund. In: Der Aufbau, Zeitschrift der Aufbaugemeinschaft Bremen , Volume 42, 1988, p. 26.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
  2. ^ Carl Thalenhorst : Bremen and its buildings 1900–1951. Bremen 1952.
  3. ↑ Architecture guide Bremen: Indoor swimming pool south
personal data
SURNAME Rotermund, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH 6th December 1976
Place of death Bremen