Friedrich Ludwig Haarmann

Monument in Holzminden

Friedrich Ludwig Haarmann (born April 25, 1798 in Holzminden ; † July 26, 1864 there ) was a German architect and construction clerk , he worked as a district master builder in Holzminden and founded the first German building trade school there .

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Friedrich Ludwig Haarmann grew up as the son of the chief forester Johannes Christoph Haarmann († 1842), who worked in Holzminden ( Kingdom of Westphalia ) until 1813 . In 1814 after the city was taken over by the Duchy of Braunschweig , his father was no longer employed as a chief forester and then founded an earthenware factory in Holzminden, which was later converted into a pot factory. In 1817 the father was employed in the city as a chamber builder. His mother was Johanna Friederike Auguste Klingemann († 1857), the daughter of a businessman from Stadtoldendorf. Friedrich Ludwig was the first child of this marriage and later attended high school in Holzminden. From 1816 Haarmann studied chemistry and mineralogy as well as the "higher construction subject" in Göttingen with a view to later taking over his father's factory . From 1817 he increasingly took on tasks in his father's factory, then left them to his siblings to devote himself to construction. During his apprenticeship, at his request, he also took on as a trainee with the councilor and architect Krahe in Braunschweig, where he was involved in the construction projects for the new construction of Holzmindener Strasse, urban buildings in Wolfenbüttel and the demolition of the fortifications. From April 1821 he received an annual remuneration (allowance). From February 3, 1824, he was employed as Chamber Construction Conductor in the building administration of the Duke of Braunschweig, but was transferred to Holzminden on September 1, 1824, to build the monastery and city school there under the supervision of his father . On August 2, 1825, he married Sophie Luise Henriette Löbbecke († 1854), the daughter of a merchant in Braunschweig. After his father's retirement, Friedrich Ludwig Haarmann became district builder on January 1, 1835 and independently managed the construction management of the Weser district and was also chairman of the examination committee for the master craftsman's examination for builders (trade and guild regulations), which was reintroduced in the duchy on October 29, 1821.

In 1842 he wrote a “Guide to the Estimation of Building Drafts”, the 4th edition of which was published in 1862, and founded the “Zeitschrift für Bauhandwerker” in 1857, which was published by Knapp Verlag in Halle an der Saale and was supported by the teachers of the building trade school Haarmann the editor. In 1853 Haarmann became a member of the Hanover Architects and Engineers Association . On March 1, 1862, he was released from his official business and retired as a civil servant. Haarmann died on July 26th, 1864 of complications from a stroke. In his honor, a statue was erected in front of the building trade school on January 4, 1869.

Ducal building trade school Holzminden a. W.

Building trade school Holzminden
built in 1902; today the location of the HAWK Hochschule Hildesheim Holzminden Göttingen

Because of the sometimes low requirements of the journeymen for the master craftsman's certificate , Friedrich Ludwig Haarmann began to give the future candidates free lessons in German, technical drawing and mathematics in the evenings. From 1829 the building manager Hanemann also gave tutoring for the journeymen. In 1830/1831 they founded the first German building trade school with seven students in the state stone grinder building with lessons only during the winter (outside the construction season at that time ). The school, which in 1838 had to move to the Davinsche Haus (today the land registry office ) due to increasing popularity , soon became the model for further schools to be founded in northern and later southern Germany.

From 1861 the building trade school in Holzminden under Haarmann offered year-round lessons. After Haarmann's death, he was succeeded by his son Gustav Haarmann as headmaster. After his death on February 23, 1891, this office was passed on to the grandson Ludwig Haarmann . During the winter semester of 1876/1877, over 1,000 students took part in the lessons.

State Building School (from 1896)

From 1851, the building trade school was taught not only in construction but also in mechanical engineering and here, above all, in mill construction. For almost 50 years, until 1907, there was always a mechanical engineering class. This makes the building school in Holzminden the oldest (first) "miller's school" in Germany.

In 1896, the building school was placed under the supervision of the state and transferred to the city of Holzminden as property, which meant that teachers could be permanently employed for the first time. Under the direction of the architect Opitz, a new building was erected, which was inaugurated in 1902. From 1913 to 1939 the building school held the title Braunschweigische Landesbauschule zu Holzminden . In 1939 the first certificates were issued with the renaming of the State Building School for Structural Engineering .

During the Second World War , teaching was severely restricted and came to a temporary end with the fire in the school building in April 1945, but thanks to the initiative of teachers and students, it was possible to start again in November 1945 in poorly prepared basement rooms. The reconstruction of the "building school", to which the new director Daming devoted himself particularly, could not least be accomplished through the material help of the alumni association and the old rulers.

In 1959, the school was renamed as the State Engineering School for Building in Holzminden, under the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture .

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University of Applied Sciences in the university network (from 1972)

After 140 years of independence, the Holzminden construction school was integrated in the 1971/1972 winter semester in the course of centralization to create the Hildesheim / Holzminden University of Applied Sciences , which was later expanded to include the Göttingen location . Today, the Holzminden location with the Faculty of Management, Social Work, Building and its more than 1000 students in the fields of construction management , building technology , industrial engineering , real estate management and social work, together with Göttingen and Hildesheim, belongs to the university association of the University of Applied Science and Art ( HAWK) ( University of Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen )

literature

• Paul Zimmermann:  Haarmann, Friedrich Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 690-692.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ducal building trade school Holzminden a. W. , Anzeiger zum Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , February 4, 1882, p. 8, accessed on December 8, 2012