Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer

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Audimax, Braunschweig
Iduna high-rise, Münster
Century Hall, Frankfurt
Preussag administration building on Lützowplatz, Berlin
DKV administration, Cologne
Interior work in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel
University Library, Braunschweig
Am Römerturm 3, Cologne

Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer (born May 10, 1907 in Halberstadt ; † April 18, 1990 in Cologne ) was a German architect and university professor .

With Walter Henn and Dieter Oesterlen , he founded the “ Braunschweiger Schule ”, an architectural education that was highly regarded in the 1950s and 1960s.

Life

From 1925 to 1929 Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer studied architecture in Braunschweig and Vienna and from 1929 to 1935 he was assistant to Carl Mühlenpfordt's chair in Braunschweig. Mühlenpfordt had a lasting influence on Kraemer's understanding of architecture.

Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer owned an architecture office in Braunschweig from 1935 to 1940 and worked as a freelance architect with the Munte Bauunternehmen , among others . In 1939 he was appointed the official trusted architect of the German Labor Front and at the same time district officer of the office for the beauty of work . He planned numerous buildings for industrial and armaments companies, including a forced labor camp for the Büssing aircraft engine works and a “delousing facility” for forced labor in the NIEMO, which belongs to Büssing . His military service in 1940 ended with a war wound in 1944.

In 1945 he received his doctorate. The subject of the dissertation was "The theater buildings and theater plans by Peter Joseph Krahe and Theodor Ottmer ".

From 1945 he was senior building officer for the city of Braunschweig and from 1946 full professor for building theory and design at the TH (today TU) Braunschweig. Since 1947 he was a member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .

His buildings, which were built from 1945 onwards, are characterized by a strict formal language and an objective but elegant functionality and make him one of the most important Brunswick architects of the 20th century, and, along with Egon Eiermann and Sep Ruf , one of the most influential German architecture producers in the sign of the economic miracle .

With Günther Pfennig and Ernst Sieverts he ran the office partnerships of Prof. Kraemer - Pfennig - Sieverts (KPS) from 1960–1974, and with Sieverts and other partners from 1975–85 Prof. Kraemer Sieverts & Partners (KSP). His offices in Braunschweig and Cologne employed over 170 people in the early 1960s and received numerous prizes and awards.

Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer was also involved in the preservation of monuments and was involved in the reconstruction of the Braunschweiger Gewandhaus and in the redesign of the Bibliotheca Augusta and the armory in Wolfenbüttel .

He retired in 1974 , after moving to Cologne in 1975 he ended his active work as an architect in 1985. His son Kaspar Kraemer then entered the partnership and uses the house at Am Römerturm 3 , one of his father's last construction works.

Buildings (selection)

literature

  • J. Herrenberger: Festive greeting (for Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer's 65th birthday). In: The Circle of Friends. Issue 65/1972, pp. 7-8.
  • Kraemer, Sieverts & Partner: Buildings and Projects. Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 1983. ISBN 3-7828-1468-1 . ( Table of contents, PDF file; 159 kB )
  • Roland Böttcher, Kristiana Hartmann, Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : The architecture teachers at the TU Braunschweig 1814–1995. City Archives and City Library Braunschweig, Braunschweig 1995, pp. 100-103. ISBN 3-87884-046-2 .
  • Holger Pump-Uhlmann: Reconstruction and expansion of the university after 1945. In: Walter Kertz (Hrsg.): Technical University of Braunschweig. From collegium to technical university; 1745-1995. Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 1995, pp. 733-779. ISBN 3-487-09985-3 . ( Table of contents, PDF file; 71 kB )
  • Wolfram Hagspiel : The “St. Claren Quarter” - its structural and urban development up to the present. In: Am Römerturm. Two millennia of a Cologne district. Cologne 2006. ISBN 3-927396-99-0 .
  • Karin Wilhelm, Olaf Gisbertz, Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg, Anne Schmedding (eds.): Law and freedom. The architect Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer 1907–1990. Jovis, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-939633-17-4 .
  • Olaf Gisbertz: Idea and Task - On the work of Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer on the Rhine and Ruhr . In: INSITU. Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte 3 (1/2011), pp. 119–132.
  • Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg: Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer (1907-1990), architect, university professor. In: Brunswick personalities of the 20th century. Edited by Other History Working Group Döring, Braunschweig 2012, pp. 158–161. ISBN 978-3-925268-42-7 .

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b video: The Stiftung Warentest building through the ages test.de from December 23, 2014
  2. ↑ Arne Schmitt: entanglements. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016 ; accessed on July 23, 2018 .
  3. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer. In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  4. ↑ The builder. Born 1955, issue 9.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Entry in the NRW architecture database
  6. ↑ Catalog of works , accessed on June 12, 2016
  7. ↑ Studio stage / hexagonal structure . In: Art History (Art History Institute) . ( uni-kiel.de [accessed on September 19, 2018]).
  8. ^ Office for Economic, SME and Transport Promotion and Transport Office of the City of Cologne (Ed.): Economic architecture in Cologne . Cologne 1985, p. 24 .
personal data
SURNAME Kraemer, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1990
Place of death Cologne