Hanns Bökels

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Hanns Bökels , also Hans Bökels (born June 1, 1891 in Düsseldorf ; † March 4, 1965 ibid), was a German architect .

life and work

Bökels began his career by studying architecture for four semesters at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and became assistant to Fritz Becker , whose class he was temporarily head of. He studied another four semesters at the Technical University of Stuttgart . Bökels had been a freelance architect in Düsseldorf since 1927, initially together with Otto Biskaborn (architects “Bökels & Biskaborn” on Graf-Adolf-Strasse). "Bökels & Biskaborn" won first prize in 1928 for their competition design for the state tax office and the police headquarters at Fürstenwall in Düsseldorf and in 1930 for the competition design for a judicial building in Berlin.

Due to a lack of construction contracts in the 1931/1932 financial year, Hanns Bökels used the time for an extended trip. With little money he rounded with his wife Else from September 1932 to September 1933 in a Klepper - folding boat with which they have some water migration had made, the Balkan Peninsula . Back in Düsseldorf, Bökels was appointed to the Association of German Architects in 1933.

For the Reichsausstellung Schaffendes Volk in 1937, the site plan for the Reichsheimstätten model settlement, the so-called Wilhelm Gustloff settlement , was designed by Peter Grund in collaboration with Hanns Bökels. The area of ​​today's " Nordparkiedlung " was on the northern tip of the exhibition grounds and had a total area of ​​1.7 hectares. The model estate was the counterpart to the Schlageterstadt (Golzheimer Siedlung) in the south of the Nordpark and was commissioned by the city of Düsseldorf. It should represent a trend-setting housing for workers with the possibility of self-sufficiency. Although the Wilhelm Gustloff settlement was much smaller than Schlageterstadt , it was also designed with a central meadow and a “child and goose fountain” by the sculptor August Wilhelm Goebel (1883–1970) in the village character. The trust agency for housing and small settlements was responsible for the sponsorship, financing and implementation. Fourteen residential buildings were designed by Hanns Bökels (house type 1, 1a and 2 and a training home for the German Settlers' Association, the settler school) and Hans Maria Schneider (1896–1966) (house type 6). The traditional construction of the Lower Rhine with its simple, clear shapes and a base area that is as rectangular as possible was chosen as the model for the individual houses. Bökels made the division of the houses as practical and space-saving as possible. The brickwork was whitewashed and the gable roof was covered with dark tiles. All visible wood was treated with dark protective agents, except for the windows and doors, which were painted. The settler school, a somewhat more spacious house, had a basement and an air raid shelter. It was used by the Association of German Girls during the exhibition . Today the Association of Residential Property Rhineland has its headquarters in the "Nordparkiedlung".

After 1945 Bökels successfully took part in numerous competitions: 1st prize in the NRW small apartment competition, 1st prize for the Düsseldorf-Oberkassel youth hostel , 1948. Other competitions in 1948 were: district at Lipper Tor in Steinheim , fish market in Kleve , city center planning Krefeld , Schifferbörse Duisburg-Ruhrort . He also advised the German Youth Hostel Association, Rhineland Regional Association, on the planning of youth hostels .

Buildings and designs until 1945

  • 1924: Own house in Düsseldorf-Golzheim, neoclassical , today called Hanns-Bökels-Haus
  • around 1927: Reconstruction of the association home of the German National Handicrafts Association in Düsseldorf, Haroldstrasse
  • around 1937: “Roemryke Berge” youth hostel in Solingen-Burg
  • 1937: Houses type 1, 2 and 1a in the Wilhelm Gustloff housing estate in Düsseldorf
  • 1937: School for settlers in the Wilhelm Gustloff housing estate in Düsseldorf
  • 1938: Competition design for a youth hostel in Essen
  • undated: Nursing home in (Duisburg-) Homberg

Buildings after 1945

literature

  • Marco Kieser: Homeland Security Architecture in the Reconstruction of the Rhineland. Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection eV, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-88094-840-2 .
  • Stefanie Schäfers: From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The exhibition Schaffendes Volk, Düsseldorf 1937. Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-3045-1 .
  • Dick van Gameren: Woningbouwtentoonstellingen, Housing exhibitions. NAi010 uitgevers, Rotterdam 2013, ISBN 978-94-6208-098-0 . (Text in Dutch and English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bökels, Hanns, architect, partner in Bökels & Biskaborn, Lichtstrasse 45U; Bökels & Biskaborn Architekten, Graf-Adolf-Straße 49/53 , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1930
  2. ↑ Der Baumeister , Volume 26, 1928, Issue 6 (from June 1928) ( online as PDF), supplement, page B 124. (Note on the competition results)
  3. ↑ Werner Hegemann : Ideas competition for Berlin court buildings. In: Wasmuthsmonthshefte für Baukunst und Städtebau , Volume 14, 1930, Issue 7 ( online ( memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link accordingly Instructions and then remove this note. As PDF), pp. 330–334. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / europeanalocal.de
  4. ↑ Around the Balkans from September 4, 1932 to September 2, 1933, diary entries by Hans & Else Bökels
  5. ^ Bökels, Hans Architekt BDA, Klosterstrasse 107 , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1933
  6. ^ Bökels, Hanns, Architekt BDA, Klosterstrasse 107 , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1933
  7. ↑ There were only three different house types: Type 1, 2, 6 and 1a (a scaled-down version of Type 1).
  8. ^ Supplement or special edition of the Deutsche Bauzeitung from February 1938 ( online as PDF), p. 56.
  9. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 72, 1938, Issue 21 (from May 25, 1938) ( online as PDF), supplement, page B 577. (Note on the competition result)
  10. ^ Postcard from the Rodert Youth Hostel, Bad Münstereifel in North Rhine-Westphalia from the provider akpool , last accessed on December 10, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Bökels, Hanns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bökels, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1965
Place of death Dusseldorf