Friedrich Brauns (architect)

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Friedrich Brauns (full name Friedrich Ernst Brauns ; * July 17, 1869 in Hanover ; † June 12, 1942 ibid) was a German architect .

Life

Friedrich Ernst Brauns was born in Hanover in 1869 as the son of the master bricklayer and architect Ernst Brauns .

After attending school, he studied from 1889 to 1891 under the matriculation number 9121 at what was then the Technical University in Hanover with Conrad Wilhelm Hase . During this time he became a member of the Bauhütte zum white paper in 1890 .

After completing his studies, Friedrich Brauns initially worked in Karlsruhe , and only later did he design buildings in his hometown. In 1919 Brauns moved into a residential building that he had previously built at Scharnhorststrasse 6 . The three-storey plastered building, adorned with Art Nouveau décor and elements of the Belle Époque, is one of the most important multi-family houses between Gellertstrasse and Kirchwenderstrasse in today's Zoo district in terms of monument conservation .

Friedrich Ernst Brauns died on June 12, 1942 in Hanover.

Works (if known)

  • in Hannover:
    • 1904: Apartment building Scharnhorststrasse 6 , his first tenant there was the railway director Albert Becké ; from 1919 Friedrich Brauns lived in the building himself
    • 1910: Gellertstrasse 49 (previously at number 5), residence for Franz Garvens , which was destroyed during the air raids on Hanover in World War II

Archival material

Archives by and about Friedrich Ernst Brauns can be found, for example

  • in the archives of Bauhütte Hannover , which is partially in the city Hannover archive , partly in the club house in the Braunstraße 28 is to sift

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h Reinhard Glaß: Brauns, Friedrich Ernst in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de , most recently Retrieved April 23, 2017
  2. Wolfgang Neß : Structural development between Seelhorststrasse, Scharnhorststrasse and Plathnerstrasse , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 1, volume 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 149–152; here: p. 152 .; as well as zoo in the addendum to part 2, volume 10.2: List of monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation, p. 10f.