Ernst Kopp (architect)

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Ernst Kopp (born March 25, 1890 in Brno , Austria-Hungary , † December 4, 1962 in Switzerland) was a German architect .

biography

Memorial plaque on the house of Otto Tetens in Bad Saarow
1961: Diakonie Hospital in Bremen

Ernst Kopp was the son of the architect Emil Kopp and his wife Helene Kopp, née Gielen. After attending grammar school and an arts and crafts school , he was a freelance architect from 1913. Kopp's first marriage to Freda von Rohrscheidt has three children: Jürgen, Ute and Burkhard. In his second marriage he married Marie Winkler.

His interest in technical innovations prompted him to join the young German air force during the First World War . After his training as a pilot, the deputy sergeant major Ernst Kopp was transferred to Feldfliegerabteilung 41 as a pilot at the end of 1916. Feldfliegerabteilung 41 was set up on September 13, 1914. In this unit he experienced the 1st aerial victory of Vice Sergeant Hahn (pilot) and Lieutenant Engel (observer) on November 10, 1916. Shortly afterwards, the FFA 41 was renamed the Fliegerabteilung (A) 258. After passing the compulsory exams, he received the Prussian pilot's badge in early 1917. In July the aviation department changed its location and moved to the Chateau du Biez, a country estate near Pecq near Tournai in Belgium. Together with his observer, Lieutenant Paulun, who had come from Fliegerabteilung (A) 221 in June 1917, he flew successful missions that were rewarded on July 31, 1917 with the award of the Iron Cross 1st class . On August 28, 1917, Ernst Kopp left the unit and stayed for a short time with Flieger Ersatzabteilung 1 in Adlershof. It can be assumed that Kopp had carried out various training flights with single-seaters. He was trained there as a single-seat combat pilot. Then came the transfer to the single-seat squadron 4b in Freiburg. Homeland Security reported a need for a pilot. This season had the task of protecting the southern German cities from enemy bombing attacks. The unit flew u. a. Siemens-Schuckert D.III aircraft. The squadron leader was Lieutenant Eugen Weber, from August 1918 Lieutenant Karl Haustein. This unit was also promoted to lieutenant. Lieutenant Ernst Kopp did not have a confirmed victory in the air, but he was very much appreciated by his superiors. The combat single-seater squadrons 4 a and 4 b were combined into the Württemberg Jagdstaffel 84 on October 29, 1918.

After the First World War he went back to his learned profession as an architect. In addition to Ludwig Lesser and Emil Kopp, he was commissioned to plan Bad Saarow . Among other things, the mud baths and several villas and country houses in Bad Saarow can be traced back to him, for example that of Otto Tetens in Seestrasse (1930) and the summer house of the two Miss von Gottberg (1931). In 1928 the Catholic Parish Church of the Holy Spirit with a parish and community center was built in Beeskow according to his plans. Kopp also designed the Martin Luther Hospital in Berlin , the Royal Hospital Al Maossat in Alexandria , the German Hospital in Rio de Janeiro , the Evangelical Hospital in Gütersloh and other hospitals and public buildings in Germany.

Kopp was a member of the Association of German Architects and after 1933 - like all architects and artists - in the Reich Chamber of Culture . Its international activities ended in 1939 with the Second World War. His office was relocated to Berlin in the 1930s and was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1943. 1949 to 1955 worked again in Alexandria . In 1956 he founded an architectural office in Bremen with his nephew Bert Gielen. Both realized several hospital buildings and a. the central building of the St. Jürgensstrasse hospital (until 1962), the central building of DIAKO Ev. Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen (1961) and the central building of the Bremen-Nord Clinic (1962). After his death at his second home in Switzerland, Gielen continued the office with Dieter Kopp, another nephew.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? 10th edition, Degener, Berlin 1935.
  • Reinhard Kiesewetter: dream housing Bad Saarow. 60 houses with an eventful history in Bad Saarow-Pieskow on the Märkisches Meer, 4th edition, Förderverein Kurort Bad Saarow, Bad Saarow 2002.
  • Peter R. Pawlik: From Saarow to Alexandria. Ernst Kopp (1890–1962). The detours of a great hospital builder. (= Studies on the history of the hospital system , Volume 49.) Murken-Altrogge publishing house, Herzogenrath 2013, ISBN 978-3-935791-45-8 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Kopp: Lawful Building. Part IJP Bachem, Cologne approx. 1932. (published by Hermann Kohlmann, Cologne)
  2. ^ Dehio-Handbuch Brandenburg, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , p. 58
  3. ↑ Martin Luther Hospital: Our story
personal data
SURNAME Kopp, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1962
Place of death Switzerland