Georg Wellhausen
Georg Wellhausen (born May 9, 1898 in Gießen ; † July 23, 1987 in Hamburg ) was a German architect .
Life
Wellhausen began an apprenticeship in the architecture office of Hans Meyer at the age of 15 and in 1916 studied architecture at the building trade school in Darmstadt. In the same year he volunteered in the First World War and was deployed on the Western Front. After the end of the war, he resumed his studies, from 1920 as a master student of Arthur Wienkoop .
Professional background
In 1922 Wellhausen had his first job in the architecture office of Karl Wach in Düsseldorf , where he supervised the construction of the Düsseldorf Art Academy as construction manager . In 1925 Wellhausen became an employee in the construction department of the Ruhrknappschaft in Bochum , initially as a site manager, but is also involved in the design and construction of hospitals for the Ruhrknappschaft.
In 1929 Wellhausen moved to the construction department of Rhenania-Ossag-Mineralölwerke in Düsseldorf, today's Shell AG. With the relocation of the head office in 1930 he went to Hamburg, where he worked on building up the petrol station organization. For Shell, he developed types of petrol station construction that should blend in harmoniously with the respective townscape by dispensing with excessive advertising.
He also took part in competitions in which he received several awards and in 1939 was commissioned to build a HJ home in Hamburg-Bergedorf . Because of the Second World War , the construction was no longer carried out. In 1940 Wellhausen was drafted into military service and stationed as a weather service assistant at Ludwigslust Air Base.
In order to participate in the plans for the redesign of Hamburg carried out under Konstanty Gutschow , Wellhausen was released from military service in 1941 and founded his own architectural office in Hamburg. As a freelancer for Gutschow, he prepared development plans, expert opinions and competition designs and was busy with repair work on war-damaged buildings, which are coordinated by the Office for War-related Operations, which is also headed by Gutschow.
After the end of the war, Wellhausen was commissioned to rebuild the Hamburg Stock Exchange in 1946 .
In 1952 Wellhausen was commissioned to draw up a development plan for the island of Helgoland . He took up the dense development of historical structures that followed the strong wind load. For the lobster stalls in 1954, he orientated himself on Scandinavian models. The asymmetrical gable profiles, which were used to better light the narrow streets, are characteristic.
Wellhausen built buildings such as the Norddeutsche Bank and the Victoria House in Hamburg . Alongside Werner Kallmorgen , Bernhard Hermkes and Ferdinand Streb, he was one of the most important architects of the reconstruction. From the mid-1950s onwards he became the favorite architect of the Iduna insurance group in Hamburg and designed numerous commercial buildings in and around Hamburg, the appearance of which is characterized by cladding with white ceramic stones.
With the acceptance of his son Michael as a partner, Georg Wellhausen converted the office into a partnership in 1967, which was expanded to include his daughter Gabriele two years later. Due to extensive blindness, Georg Wellhausen withdrew from active work in the office in 1970.
literature
- Jan Lubitz: Builder of a pragmatic modern age. The architect Georg Wellhausen. In: Architektur in Hamburg , Yearbook 2005, pp. 162–173.
- Ralf Lange: Hamburg. Reconstruction and re-planning 1943–1963. Koenigstein 1994.
- Volker Roscher: Georg Wellhausen (1898–1987). In: The Architect , born 1987, issue 10, p. 460.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wellhausen, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | to water |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1987 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |