Godber nits

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Godber Nissen (born June 24, 1906 in Vladivostok ; † December 25, 1997 in Hamburg ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Nissen was the son of a businessman from Heide (Holstein) who returned to Germany with his family after internment as a result of the October Revolution in 1919 and settled in Hamburg. After graduating from high school in 1925, he completed his architecture studies at the Technical University of Dresden up to the intermediate diploma, and worked as an intern in Altona with Karl Schneider and Gustav Oelsner , as well as with Werner Kallmorgen in his newly opened office.

He completed his studies in 1931 with the main diploma examination at the Technical University of Berlin with Heinrich Tessenow . In the same year he opened his first office in Berlin and received orders from the Reemtsma cigarette factories for various conversions. Contact with Reemtsma was maintained even after the war. The company's administration was rebuilt in 1952 based on his designs on the grounds of the private Villa Reemtsma , and the house was also converted for this purpose.

former administration buildings of Reemtsma GmbH

In 1937 Nissen received the order for the factory building of the Pomeranian Motor Works in Arnimswalde near Stettin . Due to his work in the armaments industry, his office was placed under Albert Speer and two years later incorporated into the Todt organization . This closeness to the regime was viewed critically by individuals, but it did not harm his further career, as it was ultimately viewed as a legitimate evasion from a war mission. Contacts with Konstanty Gutschow , with whom he designed several clinic buildings in the 1950s, also date from the war years .

After the end of the war, Nissen returned to Hamburg and from 1946 to 1953 he shared an office with Carl-Friedrich Fischer .

From 1954 to 1965 he was a member of the Commission for the Reconstruction of Heligoland , in which he temporarily held the chair.

Also in 1954, he opened his own office, which was responsible for the first buildings on Hamburg's Neuer Wall with a metal and glass facade. One focus of the work was hospital buildings, in which Nissen tried to set human needs as a counterpoint to apparatus medicine. In 1979 the employees Schlutz and Peter Martinius became partners, the office was finally taken over by Hartmann Schlutz in 1989.

From 1956 to 1971 Nissen taught as part of the newly established professorship for building theory at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , at the same time as Fritz Trautwein .

He headed the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg from 1972 to 1980 as president.

Nissen died in Hamburg in 1997, where he was buried in the Nienstedten cemetery .

Buildings and designs (selection)

Embassy in Stockholm
IHK building in Düsseldorf
Neuer Wall 43, Hamburg (1958)
Commerzbank Hamburg
  • 1937–1945: New buildings for the Pomeranian Motor Works, Arnimswalde near Stettin
  • 1938–1939: Factory settlement for the Pomeranian Motor Works with two country houses near Stettin
  • 1938: Landhaus van der Heydt in Berlin-Grunewald
  • 1943–1945: Buildings of the “Avia aircraft factories” in Prague
  • Early 1950s: British cultural institutes in northwest Germany (together with CF Fischer), e.g. B. "The Bridge" in Kiel (1950)
  • 1950: DeFaKa department store in Kiel (together with CF Fischer )
  • 1952–1959: Cooperation with Konstanty Gutschow in the field of clinic construction:
  • 1953–1954: New construction of the " Görtz-Palais " in Hamburg under restoration / reconstruction of the baroque facade after destruction in the Second World War (together with CF Fischer)
  • 1956–1957: Building complex of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) and the Rheinisch-Westfälische Börse (RWB) at Ernst-Schneider-Platz 1 in Düsseldorf (together with K. Gutschow)
  • 1957: Single-family houses for Interbau Berlin
  • 1957–1966: Reemtsma plant in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 1958: Neuer Wall 41-43 office building in Hamburg
The “New Fleet” lies between the houses. The houses are one of the first attempts to construct a commercial building facade out of glass and aluminum in Hamburg. The original building was densified in the 1990s by Gerkan, Marg and Partners , so that the original spatial impression is no longer preserved.
  • 1958–1960: New building of the German embassy in Stockholm
  • 1960–1961: New building for Commerzbank am Brodschrangen in Hamburg (together with Wilhelm Fritsche)
  • 1963–1970: Eppendorf University Clinic (UKE) , Eye Clinic
  • 1967: Sports and leisure center for Reemtsma in Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 147
  • 1968–1972: Construction of the central fan structure for the Elbe Tunnel , a purely technical, windowless concrete structure with a platform that serves as a viewing platform and flood protection.
  • 1968: Group of ten row houses on the Elbhang in Hamburg, Övelgönne 3-5

reception

  • As part of the 5th Hamburg Architecture Summer 2006, the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg honored its former president (1972–1980) with the exhibition: A Virtuoso of Simplicity. The architect Godber Nissen. (May 10th to June 25th 2006)

literature

  • Godber nits. A master of post-war modernism. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930802-03-1 . (= Series of publications by the Hamburg Architecture Archive )

Web links

Commons : Godber Nissen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Architect's portrait by Jan Lubitz , last accessed on February 22, 2011.
  2. ↑ Schlutz Architekten  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schlutz-architekten.de  
  3. ↑ Mentioned in the cemetery picture gallery “Garden of Remembrance”, p. 183 below
  4. ^ Exhibition report in Kiel
  5. ^ Hermann Hipp: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. History, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster. Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-1590-2 , p. 167.
  6. ^ Dirk Meyhöfer: Hamburg. The architecture guide. Braun, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-3-938780-15-2 , pp. 152, 237.
  7. ↑ Website of the embassy in Stockholm ( memento of the original from June 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on February 24, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stockholm.diplo.de
  8. ^ Hermann Hipp: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. History, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster. Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-1590-2 , p. 136.
  9. ^ Dirk Meyhöfer: Hamburg. The architecture guide. Braun, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-3-938780-15-2 , p. 254.
  10. ^ Hermann Hipp: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. History, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster. Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-1590-2 , p. 345.
  11. ^ Dirk Meyhöfer: Hamburg. The architecture guide. Verlagshaus Braun, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-3-938780-15-2 , p. 261.
  12. ^ Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg , last accessed on February 23, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Nits, Godber
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vladivostok
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1997
Place of death Hamburg