Gottfried Schramm (architect)

Johann Gottfried Schramm (born April 17, 1894 in Hamburg ; † December 26, 1982 there ) was a German architect .

Life

Gottfried Schramm was the son of an overseas merchant from Hamburg. From 1912 he studied architecture in Berlin , interrupted by a deployment as a soldier during the First World War . After the end of the war he continued his studies at the Technical University of Dresden . He received his diploma in 1921 from Hans Poelzig .

In 1921 he married Elcita Moebius in Monterrey . She was the daughter of one of his father's trading partners. In the same year Schramm began his career as an architect, which he interrupted in 1939 to take part as captain of the reserve in World War II , from which he returned in 1946.

After the end of his professional activities he lived as a pensioner and died on December 26, 1982 in his hometown.

Working as an architect

Schramm joined Erich Elingius' architectural office in 1924 . The office was mainly concerned with the planning of apartment blocks that were subsidized by the house interest tax . As part of the urban development of Hamburg promoted by Fritz Schumacher , buildings were built in Winterhude , Hamm and on the Veddel . Schramm was significantly involved in several buildings, the tendencies of the New Building and the Bauhaus followed, including several steel houses and his own weekend house, completed around 1930 at Herzog-Adolf-Straße 6 in Reinbek with interior fittings made of tubular steel furniture.

Even after the architectural change associated with the seizure of power in 1933 , the Elingius & Schramm office remained true to its moderately modern style. In 1935 the Prien-Haus on Jungfernstieg and the Hamburg-Mannheimer-Versicherung building on the edge of the Outer Alster were built , and in 1938 the Standard-Haus on the Esplanade . After the end of the Second World War, Schramm resumed work in the architecture office in 1946. Erich Elingius died in 1948, whereupon Schramm Elingius took his son Jürgen into the office and renamed the firm to Schramm & Elingius . In 1949 they received 1st prize for a competition entry for the redesign of downtown Hamburg; however, their designs were later given little consideration. In the years that followed, the law firm mainly realized office buildings in addition to single and multi-family houses. Together with the architects Harald Peters and Jost Schramm , who were taken on in 1956 , the office was one of the leading architectural offices in Hamburg and, with the projects implemented, had a decisive influence on the post-war image of the city.

Gottfried Schramm left the office at the age of 70.

literature

• Jan Lubitz: Schramm, Gottfried . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 300-301 .

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