Guido Harbers

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Guido Harbers (born September 4, 1897 in Rome , † July 29, 1977 in Feilnbach ) was a German architect and construction clerk .

Life

Guido Harbers was born as the son of a bank officer in Rome, where he attended the German School . He made his Abitur after returning from the secondary school in Weimar. In 1915 Harbers volunteered for the army, but was dismissed as unfit after illness. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich , among others with Theodor Fischer , and graduated with honors in 1921. In addition to his studies, he worked in railway construction as part of the Patriotic Aid Service.

After his final examination, he worked for two years in the construction department of the Munich Post Office at Robert Vorhoelzer , where he was involved in numerous post offices. In 1923 he passed the state examination for the higher construction service (government master builder) with distinction. In 1924 he moved to the Supreme Building Authority of the Ministry of the Interior, where, among other things, he was responsible for the planning and design of the German Transport Exhibition in Munich in 1925 as chief architect. In 1925 he married Franziska Deininger, a sister-in-law of the high Nazi functionary Hermann Esser . In October 1925 he moved to the building department of the city of Munich under Fritz Beblo .

Although Vorhoelzer had attested to his great talent, Harbers switched from the moderate modernism represented in the Post Building School to a traditional design language after the Nazis' seizure of power . Harbers joined the NSDAP and the Kampfbund Deutscher Architekten und Ingenieure . From 1927, as editor of the trade journal Der Baumeister, he had a great influence on the development of architectural theory, but despite his rejection of New Building, using the example of the Stuttgart Weißenhofsiedlung as "lacking in tradition", "bloodless" and "un-German", he did not speak out in favor of the local architecture , but pleaded for a de-ideologization of building. As far as the interior was concerned, Harbers even preferred a sober modernity shaped by the Bauhaus .

In 1933, Harbers was appointed by Karl Fiehler as a settlement and housing consultant for the city of Munich. Among other things, he was responsible for the overall conception of the Ramersdorf model estate, which was intended to demonstrate new forms of garden-city-like living in small houses as a contribution to the settlement exhibition . In 1935, on Harber's initiative, the non-profit housing and settlement company was re-established in order to provide more popular housing. In 1937, the first 421 rental apartments and 190 private homes in Munich's Maikäfersiedlung were ready for occupancy.

From 1945 to 1948 Harbers was interned in US internment custody. He then worked again as a freelance architect and journalist; as editor for the specialist illustrated Die Kunst and Das Schöne Heim ( Bruckmann Verlag , Munich)

Buildings and designs

Fonts

  • The small house. 1930.
  • Lois Welzenbacher . Works from 1919 to 1931. Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1931.
  • The detached family house. Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1932.
  • The residential garden, its spatial and structural elements. Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1933.
  • The wooden house book. Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1938.
  • Your own home in a single property, in the planned settlement and in a row. Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1951.

literature

  • Ulrike Haerendel: Municipal housing policy in the Third Reich. Settlement ideology, small house construction and “housing renovation” using Munich as an example. Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56389-0 .
  • Bettina Seeger: The cockchafer settlement in Munich. Architecture - history - living together. Volk Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-937200-23-1 .
  • Roland Gabriel, Wolfgang Wirth: Right through the middle or around the outside? The long planning history of the Munich motorway ring. Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-943866-16-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Art and the Beautiful Home , born 1954, No. 2.
  2. ↑ Der Baumeister , year 1931, issue 11.
  3. ↑ 150 homes. 1st edition, Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1934.
  4. ↑ 150 homes. 12th edition, Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1958.
personal data
SURNAME Harbers, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1977
Place of death Feilnbach