Gerhard Langmaack

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Gerhard Langmaack (born February 19, 1898 in Hamburg ; † May 26, 1986 in Ahrensburg ) was a German architect .

Life

Interior of the church in Altenlohm (1936)

Gerhard Langmaack, son of a banker, attended the State Building Trade School in Hamburg from 1914 . From 1916 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a pioneer soldier . In 1922 he opened his architectural office in Hamburg, which he managed until 1973.

One of his first significant orders in 1925/1926 was the construction of the Warburg cultural studies library based on plans by Fritz Schumacher . Characterized by the youth movement and homeland security , Langmaack was susceptible to the propaganda "appropriate building" and in 1934 became head of the regional office for North Germany of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . Because of his refusal to join the NSDAP, he was dismissed from this office in 1936.

He was particularly interested in church building. He built his first church in 1936 in Altenlohm , Goldberg district in Silesia . More than sixty church reconstruction and new building projects bore his signature. After 1945 he was intensively involved in the reconstruction and new construction.

Langmaack, encouraged by his confirmator, Pastor Ludwig Heitmann at the Johanniskirche in Hamburg-Eppendorf , joined the Berneuchen movement early on and has been a member of the Michael Brotherhood since it was founded in 1931. In 1949 he was one of the founders of the German Evangelical Church Building Day , of which he was a member. For many years he had a teaching position at the Department of Protestant Theology at the University of Hamburg , which in 1968 awarded him an honorary doctorate in theology.

Trinity Church in Detmold (1960/1961)

plant

Peace Church in Flensburg (1967/68).
Hope Church in Ramallah (1961–1963)

buildings

Fonts

  • Why nature and homeland protection? Wendt & Matthes, Berlin 1932.
  • Our mass fate and the way of architecture. In: Baugilde, magazine of the Association of German Architects , 16th year 1934, pp. 511–534.
  • The place of worship. In: Karl Ferdinand Müller (Ed.): Liturgia. Handbook of evangelical worship. 1. Volume, Kassel 1954, pp. 366-436.
  • Works from the years 1923–1955. Self-published, undated
  • Protestant church building in the 19th and 20th centuries. Johannes Stauda Verlag, Kassel 1971, ISBN 3-7982-0108-0 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Langmaack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maike Bruhns: Fritz Schumacher's life and work after 1933 . In: Hartmut Frank (Ed.): Fritz Schumacher. Reform culture and modernity . Hatje, Stuttgart 1994.
  2. ↑ Hans Carl von Haebler: History of the Evangelical Michaelsbruderschaft . 1975, p. 163 f .
  3. ↑ Karin Berkemann: The architecture of tomorrow! P. 87.
  4. ↑ a b Karin Berkemann: The architecture of tomorrow! P. 86.
  5. ↑ Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon . tape 1 . Brune Mettcker, Wilhelmshaven 1986, ISBN 978-3-930510-00-9 , pp. 47 .
  6. ↑ Karin Berkemann: The architecture of tomorrow! P. 41.
  7. ^ Burkhard Meier, Klaus-Peter Fliedner: Lippische Kirchen . topp + möller, Detmold 2004, ISBN 3-936867-06-2 , p. 65 .
  8. ↑ Ev. Thomaskirche Espelkamp | KaTplan GmbH Münster. Retrieved March 7, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Karin Berkemann: The architecture of tomorrow! P. 81.
  10. ^ Anne Herden-Hubertus: Monument of the Month: Typical architecture of the 1960s. The cemetery chapel in Bad Holzhausen (Preußisch Oldendorf, Minden-Lübbecke district). LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia , accessed on November 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Langmaack, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1986
Place of death Ahrensburg