Ernst Friedrich Brockmann

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Ernst Friedrich Ludwig Brockmann (later Ernesto Federico ; born September 26, 1920 in Hanover ; † September 24, 1978 in Bosco Luganese ) was a German architect , sculptor and graphic artist . The former prisoner in the " Eschershausen Concentration Camp " designed large office, administrative and trade fair buildings during the years of reconstruction and held numerous honorary positions up to the top of the Association of German Architects BDA.

Life

Ernst Brockmann attended the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover and graduated from high school in 1935. From 1937 he studied architecture at the Technical University in Hanover, there among others with Friedrich Fischer . During his studies, Brockmann became a member of the Bauhütte zum white paper from 1938 . In the middle of World War II , he passed his main diploma examination in 1941 .

After completing his studies, Brockmann did not have to go to the front as a soldier: since his mother was Jewish , the National Socialists classified him as “unworthy of defense”. The Reich Chamber of Fine Arts also prohibited Brockmann from any independent professional activity. In 1942, however, Brockmann found a job as an employee of the architect Hans List , where he designed interior architecture and furniture, and then found a job with the architect Ernst Zinsser until January 1, 1945 . Eventually Brockmann was interned in the Eschershausen concentration camp.

After the liberation of the city of Hanover by the Allies , he went into business for himself on May 1, 1945, while the fighting in Berlin was still going on. In by the air raids on Hannover extensively destroyed city he began in 1946 with the establishment of the Thalia Theater in Ernst Winter Hall of HANOMAG .

In 1947 Brockmann applied in a limited competition for a new building for the Kröpcke café, which was destroyed in the war . Participants in the competition were the also freelance architects Dieter Oesterlen , Adolf Falke , Ernst Zinsser , Professor Otto Fiederling as well as the building councilors Hans Bettex and Zenker and senior building officer Dr. Kleffner. In 1948 Oesterlen's design was awarded the contract for the “Café am Kröpcke”, which was to become the meeting place for cultural workers in Hanover again in the following years.

Building of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Hanover , construction phase at Schiffgraben (relief by Kurt Lehmann )

In 1947 Brockmann was accepted as a member of the Association of German Architects , in which he held numerous honorary positions from 1955 to 1967: for one year he was chairman of the Hanover district, nine years chairman of the Lower Saxony regional association and two years until 1967 he was vice-president of the BDA at federal level. At the same time he was a member of the expert (building maintenance) advisory board of the city of Hanover from 1955 to 1964 as well as a representative of the BDA in the building committee of the city council. In 1961, in this role, there were arguments about the construction of the theater , almost a falling out between Brockmann, as BDA representative, and city planning officer Rudolf Hillebrecht .

In addition to his honorary posts and the numerous works from his independent architectural work, Ernst Brockmann successfully participated in competitions with his own contributions, but also performed expert and judging tasks himself .

At the age of 47, Brockmann retired from his professional activities in 1967 for health reasons. In 1970 Brockmann's architecture office was transformed into the “Dipl.-Ing. Brockmann Baukontor KG ”. Brockmann spent the last years of his life in Ticino , where he worked as a sculptor under the stage name "Ernesto Frederico".

Awards

plant

Ernst Friedrich Brockmann designed, among other things, industrial design , furniture and exhibition stands as well as shops , various residential, commercial and commercial buildings. In the years of reconstruction, in addition to buildings for the (today's) Hanover Fair , he also created large office and administrative buildings for insurance companies and chambers.

Buildings in Hanover and Langenhagen

  • 1946: Thalia-Theater ( Ernst-Winter-Saal der Hanomag )
  • 1947/48: Erdmann office building , Große Packhofstraße , house number 34 (today heavily changed)
  • 1948: Reconstruction and redesign of the St. Heinrich Church , Sallstrasse 72
  • 1948/49: Grenzburg-Lichtspiele
  • 1948–1951: Lomnitz office building, Georgstrasse 18;
  • 1950:
  • 1950: Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hanover IHK am Schiffgraben 49
  • 1952/53: own residential and office building in Jungfernstrasse 9
  • 1953: Residential high-rise at Schwarzen Bär, Falkenstrasse 1
  • (former) health food store Schmelz. Karmarschstrasse 16
  • 1954: Extension of the IHK along the ship moat, house number 49
  • 1954/55:
  • 1955/56: Commercial building with Ernst-August-Markthalle (previously: City-Passage ), corner of Bahnhofstrasse 8 / Ernst-August-Platz
  • 1956/57: Borsum furniture store. Limburgstrasse 1 later the headquarters of fairkauf
  • 1957: Commercial health insurance company Halle , Leibnizufer 13-15 (changed today)
  • 1958 (with the architects Lichtenhahn, Ms. Hüper and E. Teerling): Luminaire high-rise and electrical hall on the exhibition grounds
  • 1959:
    • Raiffeisenhaus , corner of Kaiserallee / Hindenburgstrasse
    • Residential building Ludwig-Bruns-Strasse 10, 12, 14
  • 1959: House at Plathnerstraße 42
  • 1959/60:
  • 1960:
    • Construction of the Volkswohl health insurance, Lavesstrasse 6 at the corner of Schiffgraben
    • Brothers Grimm School , Constantinstrasse 63
  • 1960/61: Möbelhaus Böhme (hanging construction), Hamburger Allee 12–16 (changed today); Möbel Boehme (later: Möbel Unger) was the first building that was built as part of a new urban planning concept for the Raschplatz tangent .
Aerial view of the exhibition center, in the foreground the CeBIT hall

as Brockmann & Decker office:

  • 1971: Office building, Tannenbergallee 6
  • 1971–1973: Bödekerstraße 13 office building
  • 1972/72: House Mars-La-Tour-Straße 6
  • 1972–1975: Housing complex in Langenhagen; Söseweg 6 and Sollingweg 73
  • 1972–1976: Limmerstrasse residential complex; in Carré Limmerstraße , Mathildenstraße, Pavillonstraße and Fortunastraße
  • 1973/74: Garden courtyard houses in Langenhagen: Eckerweg 1, 3 and 5
  • 1974–1976: Limburgstrasse office building; between Limburgstraße, Heiligerstraße and Schmiedestraße
  • 1976–1978: List Medical Center, Celler Strasse 79
  • 1978/79: Langenhagen commercial center, Söseweg 5
  • 1979–1981: Medical Center, Hildesheimer Strasse 102/104
  • 1980–1982: Housing complex Tiergartenstrasse 129 / 129A

During his lifetime Brockmann had converted a former trading house in Südstadt for archival purposes ; the city ​​archives of Hanover moved into this building at Am Bokemahle in 1992 .

Buildings in other cities

The Grugahalle in Essen from 1956

Fonts

  • Brockmann 1945-1970. 1970
  • Drafts and plans 1970–1980 , ed. by Brockmann & Decker, 1980

Catalogs

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernst Friedrich Brockmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Helmut Knocke: Brockmann, Ernst. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 73.
  2. ↑ standard data entry (GND 109,062,906 ) of the German National Library . Query date: December 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Note: The quoted "Eschershausen concentration camp" did not exist under this name, but there were various subcamps of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp near Eschershausen. Brockmann's exact place of internment is currently unoccupied .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Friedrich Lindau: Reconstruction and destruction ... p. 321.
  5. ↑ City map Hannover : Wegweiser durch Hannover / Guide through Hanover. Patent city ​​map with exhibition plan and other information about the export exhibition 1947. Falk-Landkarten-Verlag , Emil Falke, Hamburg 1947.
  6. ^ Friedrich Lindau: Hannover, reconstruction and destruction ... p. 68
  7. ↑ Kröpcke. In: Friedrich Lindau: Hanover, reconstruction and destruction ...
  8. ^ Friedrich Lindau: Document D. In: Hannover. Reconstruction ... p. 307 and others
  9. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Erdmann. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 162.
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa Hartmut Möller: Ernst F. Brockmann in Hannover (= Architekturzeit 2017 ), Tübingen; Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8030-0822-0
  11. ↑ a b c d Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Brockmann, Ernst-Friedrich. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon ...
  12. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: 1961. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 252
  13. ^ Karljosef Kreter : City Archives. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 584f.
personal data
SURNAME Brockmann, Ernst Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brockmann, Ernst-Friedrich; Brockmann, Ernst Friedrich Ludwig; Ernesto Frederico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, graphic artist and sculptor, Vice President of the Association of German Architects
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1978
Place of death Bosco Luganese