Franz Hoffmann (architect, 1881)

Franz Hoffmann (* 1881 ; † 1948 ) was a German architect who left behind listed residential buildings , especially in Hanover (today) .

Life

Franz Hoffmann was still active in Hanover at the time of the German Empire for the housing cooperative Spar- und Bauverein , for which he built the building complex Schlosswender Garten (today: Brüggemannhof ) in the local style. At the time of the Weimar Republic , he completed the northern part of the Brüggemannhof in the same architectural style , but then, together with Walter Saran ( Saran & Hoffmann office ), delivered partial plans for the Kleefeld garden city developed under city director Karl Elkart and garden director Hermann Kube , which in clinker construction and "traditional block-square-street formation" were originally intended for "the better-off workers and the middle class ".

Franz Hoffmann died after the end of the Second World War in the year the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in 1948.

Famous works

South wing of the Brüggemannhof , built 1912–1915 for the housing cooperative Spar- und Bauverein in Hanover-Nordstadt

• 1912–1915: Southern wing of the Schlosswender garden , later renamed Brüggemannhof ( Hanover-Nordstadt );
• 1922–1924: Northern wing of the Schlosswender garden (Brüggemannhof)
• "Around 1928", together with Walter Saran : row of houses Sievertstrasse 20-28 ( Hannover-Kleefeld ), with "little decor "

literature

• Gerd Weiß: Excursus: Cooperative housing construction. Brüggemannhof , in monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in Lower Saxony, city of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 113; as well as Nordstadt in the addendum to volume 10.2, list of architectural monuments acc. § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 6f.
• Gerd Weiß: Monument topography ..., Vol. 10.2 , ... 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 27, 90, 196

Web links

Commons : Franz Hoffmann (1881-1948)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Franz Hoffmann in: archthek - Historisches Architektenregister, section Hofacker - Hogreve , last accessed on January 11, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Gerd Weiß: Monument topography ..., Vol. 10.2 (see literature)
2. ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Brüggemannhof. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 95
3. ^ Eva Benz-Rababah : Garden City Kleefeld. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 203f.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Knocke : Brüggemannhof. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 88.