Egbert Kossak

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Egbert Kossak (born August 24, 1936 in Hamburg ; † August 10, 2016 ) was a German architect and urban planner .

Life

Kossak studied architecture and urban planning at the Technical University of Berlin . Together with his fellow students Thomas Sieverts and Herbert Zimmermann, he founded the Free Planning Group Berlin in 1965/66 as a cooperative based on socialist principles. The planning group developed the concept for a satellite town with 80,000 inhabitants on the outskirts of Hamburg in Billwerder-Allermöhe, a plan that was stopped in 1976 and reduced to 9,000 inhabitants. From 1972 to 1981 Kossak was a professor at the University of Stuttgart .

From 1981 to 1999, Kossak was senior construction director in Hamburg. According to his own statement, he developed the concept of Hamburg's HafenCity together with the then mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi and building senator Eugen Wagner . Since 1999 he has been working as a freelancer. Together with the architecture office Renner Hainke Wirth , he created the master plan for the second part of the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. In 2003, Kossak was fined for taking bribes in connection with an architectural competition.

After Kossak's death, the Mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, paid tribute to him “as an important urban developer who had a profound impact on modern Hamburg in almost two decades of his work as chief building director”. Egbert Kossak found his final resting place in the Ohlsdorf cemetery.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former building director Kossak died , hamburg.de from August 20, 2016 ( Memento from August 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Thomas Sieverts : A golden age of spatial planning. The long decade 1960–1975. In: Karin Wilhelm, Kerstin Gust (ed.): New Cities for a New State , transcript Verlag Bielefeld 2013, p. 198. ISBN 978-3-8376-2204-1 .
  3. ^ Gert Kähler : From the Speicherstadt to the Elbphilharmonie. Hundred Years of City History Hamburg Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2009, p. 166
  4. ↑ Who came up with the idea for Hafencity? , World on Sunday
  5. ↑ Hamburgers expand the Hafencity of Rotterdam , Hamburger Abendblatt
  6. ↑ Final judgment , Hamburger Abendblatt (the link no longer works)
  7. ↑ Oliver Schirk: Hamburg ex-building director Egbert Kossak died , abendblatt.de, August 20, 2016, accessed on August 20, 2016
  8. ^ Image tombstone at genealogy.net
personal data
SURNAME Kossak, Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2016