Eberhard Kulenkampff

Eberhard Kulenkampff in the Kiel Council Assembly (1974)

Eberhard Kulenkampff (born December 10, 1927 in Swakopmund , South West Africa ) is a German - Namibian architect , town planner and artist. He was the Bremen Senate Director .

biography

Kulenkampff comes from the Kulenkampff merchant family in Bremen. His parents Alfred and Hedwig Kulenkampff were farmers on Farm Okongue in what is now the Erongo region , in South West Africa, in what is now Namibia. He was a soldier in World War II from 1944 to 1945 and was seriously injured. Then he did an apprenticeship as a carpenter. From 1948 to 1954 he studied architecture and urban planning at the Technical University of Hanover . After graduating, he worked in Günther Marschall's office in Hanover in 1954/55 and was a freelance architect in 1955/56.

From 1956 he was district manager in the Hanover planning office at the time when Rudolf Hillebrecht was city planning officer . In 1962 he took over the management of the overall urban planning for the greater Hanover area . From 1969 to 1974 he worked as a city planner in Kiel . Among other things, he initiated the redesign of the Old Market according to plans by Wilhelm Neveling .

From 1974 to 1987, Kulenkampff was Senate Director in Bremen, representing the Senators for the Building Industry Hans Stefan Seifriz (until 1979, SPD ) and Bernd Meyer (SPD). He was - so it was said - "assertive, proactive and open". When Eva-Maria Lemke was elected Senator for Environmental Protection and Urban Development, he resigned as Senate Director in 1987. His successor was State Councilor Jürgen Lüthge . His urban planning goals: increased inner development of the city (Teerhof), careful, conservative renewal and improvement of districts (Ostertorviertel, old town Vegesack), content reorientation of the university to the technology park university, departure from large urban forms, expansion of shopping malls in the city. Then he was managing director of the housing company GEWOBA in Bremen until 1994 .

Kulenkampff was a member of the SPD. Initially as a hobby, he made embroidery as pictures. “Art with needle and thread” wrote the Weser-Kurier about his artistic works on the occasion of an exhibition in 2012: “From a distance, his pictures look like paintings.” He lives in Bremen's old town in Schnoor ( Lange Wieren 12 ) and also in Namibia and Umbria . He has been married to the artist Natalie Thomkins since 2000.

Honors

2016: Bremen Award for Building Culture from the Bremen Center for Building Culture.

Fonts

• Eberhard Kulenkampff: The city: scope for life. Eberhard Kulenkampff. Essays and lectures on the occasion of the award of the Bremen Award for Building Culture on January 29, 2016 (= series of publications / Bremer Zentrum für Baukultur , vol. 17), published on behalf of the Bremen Center for Building Culture by Eberhard Syring and Jörn Tore Schaper, 1st edition, Bremen: Carl Schünemann Verlag, [2016], ISBN 978-3-944552-94-1 ; contents

literature

• Jürgen Fränzel: Senator in Bremen Hans Stefan Seifritz. A résumé. With contributions by Margot Walther and Eberhard Kulenkampff . Hauschild, Bremen 1987, ISBN 392069984X .
• "Let's take the stars!" INTERVIEW: 51 years of the Garbsen planetary district, in: moderneREGIONAL 16.3 .
• Jutta Grätz: “We designed street names from the star map.” Interview with Eberhard Kulenkampff, the head of the planning group that designed the later district of Auf der Horst . In: Reaching for the Stars: Past and Present of the Garbsen District Auf der Horst , published by Axel Priebs and Rose Scholl on behalf of the Hanover Region and the City of Garbsen , Münster: LIT Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-13515 -5 ; contents

swell

• Karl Marten Barfuß, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005 . Volume 2: 1970-1989. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-575-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kerstin Thompson: Art with a needle and thread . In: Weser-Kurier from January 12, 2012.