Fritz Torno

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Fritz Albert Torno (born April 8, 1881 in Kallies (Pomerania) ; † November 7, 1962 in Hanover ) was a German architect .

Life

Fritz Torno was the son of the merchant in Kallies Wilhelm Torno. He studied architecture for four semesters at the Staatliche Baugewerkschule Deutsch-Krone and then six semesters at the Technical University of Hanover with Heinrich Köhler and Hubert Stier . In 1901 he was one of the founding members of the North German Association of Hanover , which was renamed Franconia Hanover in 1903 and was reconstituted as Corps Neo-Franconia in Breslau in 1909, merging with the Franconia Stuttgart Association . From 1903 he was a freelance architect BDA in Hanover. From 1911 he formed the Mackensen & Torno working group there with Wilhelm Mackensen . Since 1912 he was married to Mally Wesche from Göttingen .

plant

George's Palace

In his paper 100 Years of Building in Hanover (see literature), Alexander Dorner also summarized the early works of Wilhelm Mackensen and Fritz Torno (before their working group) in just one list of Mackensen & Torno.

The following buildings have been occupied so far:

  • 1912-1913; with Wilhelm Mackensen: Georgspalast office and commercial building in Hanover, Georgstrasse 36
  • 1920-1922; with Wilhelm Mackensen: Dorotheenstrasse residential complex
  • 1921 or approx. 1922–1924: Commerz- und Privatbank AG building in Hanover, Theaterstraße 11/12 (facade with figures by Georg Herting ; preserved)
The Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon attributes the building to the architects Wilhelm Mackensen and Adolf Springer and dates it to around 1922–24 . In contrast, the Hanover Chronicle records the construction of the building in 1921 as a joint construction by the architects Mackensen & Torno. The building of today's Commerzbank is a listed building .
  • 1936–1937: Torno and Mackensen rebuilt the building of the Hannoversche Kapital-Versicherungsanstalt with Sparkasse, built by Heinrich Ludwig Debo in 1884–1885, at Landschaftstrasse 5 and integrated it into the new building of the Sparkasse Hannover (Landschaftstrasse 4/5, building structure partially preserved) .

Awards

  • Honorary member of the BDA

literature

  • Alexander Dorner: 100 years of building in Hanover. For the centenary of the technical university. Edler & Krische, Hannover 1931, p. 31.
  • Günther Kokkelink , Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Architecture in Northern Germany. Architecture and handicrafts of the Hanover School 1850–1900. Schlütersche , Hannover 1998, p. 570.
  • Fritz Riggert, Otto Gervesmann: History of the Corps Normannia Hannover, 1859, March 15, 1959, 1959, p. 228.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal database of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library (see web links)
  2. ↑ a b Alexander Dorner: 100 years of building ... (see literature)
  3. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke : Mackensen, Wilhelm. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 242 ( online )
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek : 1921. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 156. ( online )
  5. ^ Theaterstrasse 11/12 (Commerzbank). In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, vol. 10.1: City of Hanover, part 1. - therein: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , status: July 1, 1983, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 5.
  6. ↑ Dataset on Ludwig Debo in the database of architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , last accessed on July 26, 2011

Remarks

  1. ↑ 1956 he became IdC of the Corps Normannia Hanover , which awarded him the ribbon in 1958.
personal data
SURNAME Torno, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Torno, Fritz Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Kallies (Pomerania)
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1962
Place of death Hanover