Ernst Zinsser

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Former headquarters of Continental AG at Königsworther Platz in Hanover, 1952/1953 according to plans by Ernst Zinsser and Werner Dierschke ,
since 1995 university building ("Conti-Campus")

Ernst Adolf Zinsser (born June 26, 1904 in Cologne ; † December 16, 1985 in Hanover ) was a German architect . After working as a construction clerk , he opened his own architecture office in 1935. From 1947 to 1971 Zinsser was professor for design and building science in the architecture department of the Technical University of Hanover .

Life

Zinsser was the son of the dermatologist and university professor Ferdinand Zinsser . He got his first inspiration for architecture from the Hamburg city planner Fritz Schumacher, who was then called to Cologne . His studies took him to the universities in Stuttgart , Karlsruhe , Danzig and Dresden . His contribution to the design of a festival area as an annual student work was recognized as a diploma thesis in 1928. After graduating in Karlsruhe in 1929, he started a traineeship in Berlin in 1931 and passed the state examination for government builder with distinction in 1933 .

Ernst Zinsser's grave in the Kirchröder cemetery in Hanover

Ernst Zinsser was married to Ursula geb. Erdmannsdörffer (1911-2000). The marriage had four children. His older sister Auguste (called "Gussie") was Konrad Adenauer's second wife .

In 1935 Zinsser resigned from the civil service and began his private work in Berlin. In 1936 he moved to Hanover. A first order came in 1937 from his brother-in-law Konrad Adenauer for his house in Rhöndorf . He also became known for his thing sites , which he planned with his college friend Fritz Schaller .

Even before the Second World War broke out with the attack on Poland , Zinsser was  " indispensable " (UK) for the planning of the buildings of the Hanoverian plant of the United Light Metal Works (VLW) and its subsidiary Metallwerk Hanover (MEHA) in Laatzen - today's exhibition center . and therefore did not have to serve in the Wehrmacht . From 1942 onwards, Zinsser was commissioned with the construction of factories in Posen- Kreising (then Reichsgau Wartheland ) for Focke-Wulf GmbH , where he had his own office. Fw-190 fighters were to be built in the new plant .

The choice of the then Minister of Economics, Alfred Kubel , to use the site of the former metal works in Laatzen for the first export trade fair in 1947, goes back to a proposal by Zinsser, which he and Wilhelm Hübotter submitted to him.

He received special attention beyond the borders of Hanover through the construction of the new headquarters of the Continental Gummiwerke at Königsworther Platz (together with Werner Dierschke) - at that time with 15 floors the tallest new building in the still new Federal Republic.

Many of Ernst Zinsser's buildings were awarded the Architecture Prize of the Association of German Architects (BDA) and are now listed as historical monuments .

buildings

Industrial and commercial buildings

1951: Edler & Krische business books factory, Kestnerstrasse 42, Hanover
  • 1935–1943: Plant of the United Light Metal Works (VLW), Göttinger Chaussee 14 in Hannover-Linden (South)
  • 1936–1942: Metallwerk Hannover (MEHA - subsidiary of VLW) in Laatzen (today's exhibition center , halls have been replaced by new buildings)
  • 1940/41: Factory building of the Huth-Apparatefabrik GmbH , Göttinger Chaussee 76 in Hanover-Ricklingen (from autumn 1946 Telefunken )
  • 1942–1944: Plants for aircraft construction at Focke-Wulf GmbH in Posen- Kreising
  • 1951: Edler + Krische (EKAHA) (reconstruction of the street wing of the Edler & Krische business books factory, which was partly destroyed in the war, from the 1880s), Kestnerstrasse 42 in Hanover-Südstadt - Architecture Prize of the BDA in Lower Saxony 1976. (The building is used as a ReHa clinic by the Hanover health center , a branch of the Parkklinik Bad Rothenfelde .)
  • 1954: Dispatch and storage hall, still called the Zinsserhalle today, of the Werner & Ehlers bed spring factory in Hanover, now the seat of the FAUST association

Hotel buildings

  • 1947–1952: Kastens Hotel Luisenhof in Hanover (together with Georg Seewald **) (reconstruction and expansion)
  • 1952: Hotel Columbus on Bahnhofsplatz in Bremen (today Star Inn Hotel Bremen Columbus )
  • 1954–1955: Staatl. Kurhotel Bad Pyrmont (conversion after use as a military hospital)
  • 1962–1963: Staatl. Kurhaus Bad Nenndorf
  • 1968–1970: Hotel Am Leineschloß , Am Markte 12 in Hannover-Mitte (together with H.-J. Meyer-Delvendahl **)

Church buildings

  • 1946–1951: St. Marien Church in Laatzen -Grasdorf (reconstruction)
  • 1955–1956: Friedenskirche in Ludwigshafen am Rhein (reconstruction, under monument protection)
  • 1964–1966: Ansgarkirche community center, Voltmerstrasse 66 in Hanover-Hainholz (tower demolished in 2001)

Hall buildings, meeting places

  • Conference u. Common rooms of the general management of the VW plant in Wolfsburg
  • 1952/53 exhibition hall 10 ( house of the electrical industry ) in Hanover-Laatzen (demolished in 1998)
  • 1962 Stadthalle Hannover , Theodor-Heuss-Platz 1–3 (interior design of the dome hall and restoration rooms)
  • 1969 Hall of honor for the Air Force and Aviation Memorial in Fürstenfeldbruck

School buildings

  • 1952: Waldorf School Hannover- Maschsee (part)
  • 1957–1958: Primary school in der Flage / Uhlandstrasse in Hanover
  • 1960–1962: Elementary school Leipziger Straße 38 in Hanover-Vahrenheide (under monument protection)
  • 1966–1968: Bevenser Weg primary school / Lüneburger Damm in Hanover
  • 1966–1968: Elementary school in Gartenheimstrasse in Hanover-Bothfeld

Administrative buildings

1955–1956: Listed office and factory building of Geha-Werke , Hanover
  • 1950–1951: Stadtsparkasse Hannover, Goseriede 7 in Hannover-Mitte (under monument protection)
  • 1950–1951: Administration and central laboratory Kali-Chemie AG (today Solvay ), Hans-Böckler-Allee 20 in Hanover (1976 BDA architecture prize ) (under monument protection)
  • 1951–1953: Continental high-rise , head office of Continental Gummiwerke AG , Königsworther Platz 1 in Hanover (together with Werner Dierschke, under monument protection, since 1995 used as Conti-Campus by the University of Hanover )
  • 1955–1956: Geha-Werke office and factory building , Podbielskistraße 321 in Hanover-Bothfeld (listed)
  • 1955–1956: Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests in Kiel (1969 BDA architecture prize , under monument protection)
  • 1955–1957: Administration and factory building of Feinkost-Appel , Engelbosteler Damm 72 in Hanover-Nordstadt
  • 1958–1959: Gundlach office and commercial building, Rathenaustraße 9 / Theaterstraße in Hannover-Mitte
  • before 1962: barracks in Lower Saxony
  • 1964–1965: Church Chancellery of the Evangelical Church of Germany ( EKD ), Herrenhäuser Straße 2 in Hanover-Herrenhausen (The building has been used by the University of Hanover since the EKD moved into a new building in 1985.)
  • 1965–1967: Computer center of Continental Gummiwerke AG , Körnerstrasse / Schloßwender Strasse in Hanover (together with Hans-Jürgen Meyer-Delvendahl) (The building is used as a library by the University of Hanover .) **

  • 1950–51: Sparkasse office building , Goseriede 7, Hanover

  • 1950–51: Administration building and central laboratory of Solvay GmbH , Hanover

  • 1955–57: Appel Feinkost, Engelbosteler Damm 72, Hanover

  • 1958–1959: Gundlach office and commercial building, Hanover

  • 1965–1967: Computer center of Continental Gummiwerke AG , Hanover

Residential and commercial buildings

Konrad Adenauer's house
in Rhöndorf / Rhine
  • 1936: House at Berliner Str. 14 in Hemmingen (Lower Saxony)
  • 1950–1951: Residential and commercial buildings in Bonehauerstraße 6,8,10,12,14 and Marstallstraße 1 in Hannover-Mitte, Kreuzkirchenviertel (1976 BDA architecture award to various architects for the entire complex, under monumental protection)
  • Otto Werner clothing store , Osterstraße 16 in Hannover-Mitte (expansion of the passage)
  • 1950: Sprengel chocolate factory shop in Hanover-Mitte, Georgstrasse 22 (interior work)
  • 1950–1951: Zinsser house, Ostfeldstr. now Muthesiusweg 12 in Hannover-Kirchrode
  • 1952: House M., Hanover
  • 1959: Residential building (for Gerhard Grosse **), Schopenhauerstraße 6 in Hannover-Kleefeld (1976 BDA architecture prize, under monument protection, deleted from the list of monuments in 2001 and replaced by a new building)
  • 1961: Residential house at Ringelnatzweg 12 in Hanover-Herrenhausen (under monument protection)

Information based on Ralph Haas (see literature) and notes by Wilhelm Behnsen, 1947–1968 employee of the Zinsser office in Hanover (*)
Additions based on architecture in Hanover since 1900 (see literature) (**)

literature

  • Wilhelm Hofmann: Ernst Zinsser - Building in Hanover. In: The Architect. Issue 1/1982, pp. 26-27
  • Chamber of Architects Lower Saxony (Ed.) / Hermann Boockhoff and Jürgen Knotz (Editing): Architecture in Hanover since 1900. Callwey, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7667-0599-7
  • Ralph Haas: Ernst Zinsser, life and work of an architect in the fifties in Hanover. (= Writings of the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the Technical University of Hanover , vol. 15), also dissertation 1999 at the University of Hanover, 2 volumes (text and images), Hanover: Institute for the history of architecture and art, 2000, ISBN 978- 3-931585-11-2 and ISBN 3-931585-11-5
  • Hartmut Möller: Ernst Zinsser in Hannover (= ArchitekturZeit , 2016), with a foreword by Sid Auffarth and photos by Hartmut Möller, Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8030-0813-8 and ISBN 3-8030- 0813-1 ; contents

Web links

Commons : Ernst Zinsser  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Lindau : Ernst Adolf Zinsser , in ders .: Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. Schlütersche, Hannover 2001 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , p. 341; Preview over google books
  2. ^ Friedrich Lindau : Ernst Adolf Zinsser , in ders .: Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. Schlütersche, Hannover 2001 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , p. 341; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ image (PDF) wolf-weiskopf.de
  4. ^ Sid Auffarth , Wolfgang Pietsch: The University of Hanover. Their buildings, their gardens, their planning history , ed. on behalf of the Presidium of the University of Hanover, Imhof, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-90-3 , pp. 257-266
  5. ↑ Hans-Herbert Möller (ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in Lower Saxony, Hanover, Part 1, 10.1 [Vol.] , ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , conditioning center , in: register of monuments gem. § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , as of July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 3f.
  6. ↑ Building in Germany 1945-1962 BdA, Hamburg 1963
  7. ↑ The art and the beautiful home 11/1952
personal data
SURNAME Zinsser, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zinsser, Ernst Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1985
Place of death Hanover