Gustav Burmester (architect)

Gustav Burmester , also Gustav Burmeister or Gustav Burmeester , (born April 11, 1904 in Lauenburg / Elbe ; † February 15, 1995 in Hamburg ) was a German architect .

Life

Burmester studied from 1921 to 1925 at the Chemnitz Business Academy . In 1922 he passed his apprenticeship bricklayer examination. From 1925 to 1928 he worked in various architectural offices in Cologne and Wiesbaden. From 1928 to 1930 he worked in the office of architects Hinsch and Deimling in Hamburg. From 1930 he was employed in the planning department of the German National Action Aid Association , where he became unemployed in the Great Depression in 1932 . He also took part in the theater competition for Kharkov and traveled to Moscow in 1932 to find a new job there. From 1935 he worked as a freelance architect. Since he received a teaching position at the master school for fashion in 1935, he has also been able to work as a freelance architect. He received orders from Konstanty Gutschow , supervised the construction of makeshift apartments on the Veddel and helped relocate production facilities for the armaments industry. After the end of the war he was one of the founders of the Hamburger Baukreis , an art school for young artists of all genres, which only existed until 1951.

Schilling power plant in Stade

At the beginning of the 1950s, Burmester became the in-house architect of the Northwest German Power Plants (NWK) and in this role built a number of power plant buildings. He also worked for the Max Herz coffee roastery. In 1967 he entered into an office partnership with Fritz Trautwein and Egon Pauen , who participated in the planning of the large Osdorfer Born housing estate in Hamburg. Gustav Burmester died in Hamburg in 1995.

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Buildings and designs

• 1927–1929: Participation in the construction of the Schlankreye commercial school (as an employee in the Hinsch and Deimling office)
• 1935–1936: Lorichstrasse / Funhofweg apartment blocks in Hamburg (together with Messing, Eplinius, Frank and Neupert)
• 1937: Competition design for the administration building of the Hamburger Feuerkasse (together with Hermann Höger ; awarded 2nd prize)
• 1941–1942: Planning of the row houses on Alten Teichweg, Hamburg
• 1948: Competition design in the ideas competition downtown Hamburg
• 1949: House at Kösterbergstrasse 40d in Hamburg-Blankenese
• 1951: Allgaier pavilion at the Hamburg agricultural fair
• 1954: Apartment house Goebenstraße in Hamburg-Hoheluft ( ⊙ )
• 1955–1956: Administration building and coffee roastery Max Herz in Hamburg, Caffamacherreihe / Valentinskamp
• 1955–1957: Expansion of the Brinckmann, Wirtz & Co. (today Warburg Bank) bank in Hamburg, Ferdinandstrasse 69–75
• 1956–1957: Hauskoppelstieg special school in Hamburg-Billstedt
• 1963–1972: Participation in the planning and construction of the large Osdorfer Born housing estate in Hamburg-Lurup

Fonts

• The flat roof also fits into our landscape. A 1000 cubic meter atrium house, converted on three sides. In: Art and the beautiful home ( ISSN  0023-5423 ), 60th year 1961/1962, issue 10 (from July 1962).

literature

• Karin von Behr: Burmester, Gustav . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 72-73 .
• Ralf Lange : Hamburg. Reconstruction and re-planning 1943-1963. Langewiesche publishing house, Königstein im Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-4610-2 . (including a short biography)
• Volkwin Marg, Reiner Schröder: Architecture in Hamburg since 1900. Junius-Verlag, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-88506-206-2 .
• Architects and Engineers Association Hamburg: Hamburg and its buildings 1954-1968. Hammonia-Verlag, Hamburg 1969.

Web links

• Mention of Burmester in the Hamburg architecture archive

Individual evidence

1. ^ Architect Gustav Burmester has died. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . February 21, 1995, accessed February 10, 2018.
2. ^ Boris Meyn : The history of the development of the Hamburg school building . Hamburg 1998, p. 426. (inventory number 376)