Hannes Westermann

Braunschweig: New construction of NORD / LB and head building of the old station

Hannes Westermann (born September 17, 1912 in Braunschweig ; † February 22, 1989 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

life and work

After obtaining his university entrance qualification at the Braunschweiger Gaußschule , Westermann studied architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where he was a student of Carl Mühlenpfordt (1878-1944). After stays in Italy and France, he worked from 1936 to 1939 in the architectural office of Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer (1907–1990) in Braunschweig. After his release from captivity, he worked as a freelance architect in his hometown in 1947, where the majority of his designs were implemented. Examples of his supraregional work are the ice hockey stadium in Braunlage and the administration building of Eisen & Stahl inHanover .

Westermann died in Berlin in 1989 at the age of 76.

Work in Braunschweig

Redesign of the old station

Westermann's most important work, which also received international recognition, was the construction of a new building for what was then the Braunschweigische Staatsbank (since 1970 NORD / LB ) in the years 1963 to 1966. The remaining north facade of the late classical train station building designed by Ottmer and erected between 1843 and 1845 was used included, which was badly damaged during World War II .

More buildings

Westermann designed the renovation of the Norddeutsche Landesbank in Dankwardstraße, the Jewish parish hall opened in 1983 in Steinstraße and the extension of the old brewhouse of the Hofbrauhaus Wolters built in 1884 .

Honors

• Westermann was a four-time winner of the Peter Joseph Krahe Prize of the City of Braunschweig, which he
  • 1956 for a two-story house at Inselwall 6,
  • 1960 for the Okerstraße retirement home,
  • 1966 for the renovation of the old station
  • and received in 1982 for the residential complex on Frankfurter Strasse.
• In 1970 he received the prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts ,
• 1973 Reynolds Memorial Award from the Institute of Architecture in Washington
• and in 1976 awarded the Lower Saxony BDA Prize .

literature

• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 650 .
• Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 137-38 .