Friedrich Mehmel (architect)
Friedrich Mehmel (born April 2, 1883 in Neuenheiligen ; † April 23, 1966 in Hanover ) was a German architect , building contractor and local politician .
Life
Friedrich Mehmel was born in 1883 as the son of a farmer in Neuenheiligen. After attending school, he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and then attended the building trade school in Darmstadt from 1899 to 1901 . He then completed military service.
From 1903 Mehmel took on various activities as a salaried architect, first in the cities of Darmstadt and Mainz , then and Hanover. There he was registered as a guest student at the Technical University of Hanover for 1907 and 1908 . In 1900 he worked in the municipal service of Hanover.
In 1912 Friedrich Mehmel passed his master craftsman's examination as a bricklayer and subsequently became a part-owner of E. Behrens' construction business .
At the First World War Mehmel participated as a soldier.
At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Mehmel founded the company F. Mehmel in 1918 , a construction company for structural engineering, civil engineering and reinforced concrete , through which numerous buildings were erected, especially in the 1920s, such as the Anzeiger high-rise .
After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Mehmel was, although he was not the NSDAP joined, used for the construction of various airports in the Lower Saxony region and the construction of the Hermann Goering Works . Between 1934 and 1936, Mehmel's company, together with Fritz Schuppert , contributed to the construction of the Maschsee .
In the meantime, Friedrich Mehmel, who was an avid hunter, had acquired an estate near Bodenteich in the Uelzen district in the Lüneburg Heath in 1935 .
After the air raids on Hanover , in which the Mehmel factory premises were also destroyed during the Second World War in 1943, Mehmel initially organized the rubble clearance in the post-war period . From 1948 to 1960 he sat as an elected member of the German Party (DP) in the City Council of Hanover.
At the end of the 1950s, Friedrich Mehmel AG had its headquarters at Wiesenstrasse 30 in the Südstadt district of Hanover . The board of the corporation , as family business was led by three generations of his time were the architect Friedrich Mehmel, Ms. Emy Memel and "Dr. ing. Hans Gerstmayr, Hanover ”, while“ Miss. Meta Garbe [and] Dr. jur. Helmut Jetter ”acted as authorized signatories.
In the mid-1960s, the company was still 100% owned by Friedrich Mehmel, who died on April 23, 1966.
Honors
Friedrich Mehmel was made an honorary senator or honorary citizen of the former Technical University of Hanover .
literature
- E. Holz: 75 years of Mehmel , 1993
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b o. V .: Mehmel, Friedrich in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library [undated], last accessed on May 5, 2020
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Mehmel, Friedrich , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 249; Preview over google books
- ↑ a b c Kurt Joachim von Morr: Address Book of Directors and Supervisory Boards , Part 2, Berlin: Finanz-Verlag, 1958, p. 788; Preview over google books
- ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Wiesenstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 266
- ^ Rudolf Berndsen: The German stock corporations, balance sheet analyzes since 1948 , Hanover: Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen, 1965, p. 144; Preview over google books
- ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1966 , in: Hannover Chronik ; here: p. 259; Preview over google books
- ↑ Yearbook of the Technical University of Hanover , Giersen 1952, p. 31; Preview over google books
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mehmel, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, building contractor and nationalist local politician (DP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Saints |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1966 |
| Place of death | Hanover |