Günther Kokkelink

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Günther Kokkelink (* July 18, 1932 in Eilsum ; † November 21, 2013 in Hanover ) was a German architect and professor of urban history at the University of Hanover .

Life

“ Protest !” - Advertisement against the demolition of the Villa Willmer monument and for a Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act ;
1970 in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

Career

From 1938 Kokkelink attended the elementary school in Neermoor , from 1942 the state high school with high school train in Leer, where he passed the Abitur in 1951. After studying architecture at the Technical University of Hanover and at the University of Bristol , Kokkelink worked as an architect in Hanover, Braunschweig and Ludwigshafen am Rhein from 1963 to 1967 . At the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art at the Technical University of Hanover (from 1968 Technical University) he dealt with the architecture of the 19th century and received his doctorate in 1968 with a dissertation on Conrad Wilhelm Hase . After taking a lectureship at the art history seminar of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1972 to 1973 , he was appointed professor for urban history at the TU Hannover in 1974. Kokkelink led several research projects, for example on Lübeck's old town , railway architecture and the Hanoverian classicist Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves . From 1997 he was retired.

Günther Kokkelink was buried on November 28, 2013 in the Engesohde city cemetery . Instead of expressions of mourning, his family asked for donations to the Hanover City Archives .

plant

As a scientist, he mainly wrote about the preservation of monuments , about the architects Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves and Conrad Wilhelm Hase and about the architects' association of the Hanoverian Bauhütte , which he had revived in the 1970s and of which he was chairman. Together with his wife Monika Lemke-Kokkelink, he published on the architecture of the Hanover School and, together with Harold Hammer-Schenk, was the editor of the extensive work Laves and Hanover. Lower Saxony architecture in the 19th century .

Architects database

Most recently, Kokkelink researched with Monika Lemke-Kokkelink and Reinhard Glaß on architects and artists whose works are directly related to Conrad Wilhelm Hase , for which purpose a database was set up.

Appreciation

Conrad von Meding "always modest and friendly" described the Kokkelink occurring in an obituary in 2013 as one of the "exponiertesten expert on the North German architectural history" of the "standard work" about architecture in Northern Germany and in a comprehensive index, the Hannoversche Bausammlung in city archives Hannover have created . In addition, Kokkelink was "a rigorous warning against the demolition orgies in Hanover", who prevented the demolition of the Noltehaus in Leinstraße and achieved the re-erection of the Ernst August memorial in front of the main train station.

Fonts

  • with Dankwart Gottschalk (arrangement): Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves , catalog for the exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death on April 30, 1964 (from April 30 to May 31, 1964), Hannover City Administration, 1964.
  • The neo-Gothic Conrad Wilhelm Hase: A form of historicism. 1st part: 1818-1859. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Volume 22, Issue 1/3, ISSN  0342-1104 , Hanover 1968, DNB 481563008 (Dissertation TU Hanover, Faculty of Building, July 11, 1968, 211 pages).
  • with Heinz-Detlef Theen (edit.): Evaluation questions of monument preservation in urban areas , ed. from the Institute for Building and Construction Art history, Technical University of Hanover, 1976, ISBN 3-931585-00-X .
  • Conrad Wilhelm Hase: Builder of Historicism , guide to the exhibition of the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer from September 24 to October 27, 1968 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birthday, Hanover 1968.
  • with Harold Hammer-Schenk (Ed.): From the castle to the train station: Building in Hanover. For the 200th birthday of the court architect G. L. F. Laves, 1788–1864. An exhibition by the State of Lower Saxony, Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the University of Hanover and the State Capital Hanover, Historical Museum. Exhibition in the forum of the Landesmuseum Hannover from October 13, 1988 to January 8, 1989, Institut für Bau- u. Art history of the University of Hanover, Historical Museum Hanover, 1988, ISBN 3-88746-223-8 .
  • Harold Hammer-Schenk, Günther Kokkelink (eds.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , ed. by Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X .
  • with Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Architecture in Northern Germany. Architecture and handicrafts of the Hanover School 1850–1900. Schlueter, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-538-4 .
  • Hans-Joachim Heuer a. a. (Ed.): Planning and construction history of the "Royal Police Presidium" in Hanover - today: "Police Directorate". In: From the police of the authorities to the service provider for public security: Commemorative publication for the 100th anniversary of the Hanover police headquarters 1903–2003. Verlag Deutscher Polizeiliteratur, Hilden 2003, pp. 11–46, ISBN 3-00-011937-X .
  • Polytechnic school in the Kingdom of Hanover. From the beginning to the twenties. In: The University of Hanover: its buildings, its gardens, its planning history , ed. on behalf of the President of the University of Hanover by Sid Auffahrt and Wolfgang Pietsch. Petersberg, 2003, pp. 65–94 (with illustrations and plans).
  • with Monika Lemke-Kokkelink: Conrad Wilhelm Hase / 1818–1902 / founder of the Hanover School of Architecture , text for the exhibition on the 100th anniversary of death in the Hanover city archive from March 14 to May 14, 2002, Hanover city archive, 2002, 20 pages, with illustrations.
  • with Wolfgang Frontzek: On the building history of the " Broyhan House ", Kramerstraße 24 in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series (1985), Vol. 39, ISSN  0342-1104 , pp. 135-168 (with 15 illustrations).
  • Laves, Georg Ludwig Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985,ISBN 3-428-00195-8, p. 2 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • The church building by Conrad Wilhelm Hase and his students in Hanover. In: Stories about Hanover's churches. Studies, pictures, documents , ed. by Hans Werner Dannowski and Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Lutherhaus, Hannover 1983, ISBN 3-87502-145-2 , pp. 113–117 (with 2 illustrations).
  • The royal residence city of Hanover / Your planning from 1816 to 1866. In: Der Architekt , 1982, No. 1, pp. 8-10 (with 1 illustration and 2 plans).
  • Conrad Wilhelm Hase. Architect and teacher of architecture. In: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover , Vol. 1 (1981), pp. 180–192 (with 19 illustrations).
  • The architecture of the Hanover School. In: History and Architecture of the Bauhütte Hannover , 1980, pp. 91-100 (with 20 illustrations as an appendix).
  • Conrad Wilhelm Hase and his autobiography. In: History and Architecture of the Bauhütte Hannover , 1980, pp. 51–83 (with 4 illustrations).
  • The origin of the Bauhütte and its goals. In: History and Architecture of the Bauhütte Hannover , 1980, pp. 9-17.

literature

  • Stefan Amt (Ed.): Festschrift for Günther Kokkelink. (= Writings of the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the Technical University of Hanover , Vol. 12). Institute for the history of architecture and art, Hanover 1999, ISBN 3-931585-09-3 (pp. 231-234 list of publications).
  • Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction - the city in dealing with its architectural identity , with a foreword by Paulhans Peters. 2., revised. Edition. Schlütersche , Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-87706-659-3 , see register p. 347 .
  • Catalogus Professorum 1831-2006. Festschrift for the 175th anniversary of the University of Hanover, Volume 2. Ed. On behalf of the Presidium of the University of Hanover by Horst Gerken. Georg Olms, Hildesheim - Zurich - New York 2006, ISBN 3-487-13115-3 , pp. 264-265.
  • Conrad von Meding: Construction expert Prof. Kokkelink has died. He created the building collection in Hanover's city archive. Obituary in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung No. 276 of November 26, 2013, p. 15.
  • Sid Auffarth : Günther Kokkelink 1932–2013. In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony. Vol. 34 (2014), pp. 29-30.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the dates of birth: Biographical database of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library ; for the dates of death: Obituaries , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , November 23, 2013, accessed on November 25, 2013.
  2. ^ Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction ... , with appendix biographies of Hannoverscher Architekten , p. 328 .
  3. ↑ Compare the obituary notice in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from November 23, 2013; online on the HAZ website
  4. ↑ Helmut Knocke : Bauhütte to the white sheet. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 52.
  5. ^ Database of architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (see the section on web links ).
  6. ↑ Conrad von Meding: Building expert Prof. Kokkelink has died. He created the building collection in Hanover's city archive. Obituary. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung No. 276 of November 26, 2013, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Kokkelink, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, professor of urban history and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hurry
DATE OF DEATH November 21st 2013
Place of death Hanover