Hanns Dustmann

The Café Kranzler on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm.

Hanns Dustmann (born May 25, 1902 in Herford-Diebrock , † April 26, 1979 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect .

Career

Hanns Dustmann obtained the general university entrance qualification at the humanistic Friedrichs-Gymnasium Herford and studied from 1922 to 1928 at the Technical University of Hanover and briefly in 1924 at the Technical University of Munich . After passing his diploma, he worked in the Prussian University New Building Office in Hanover in 1928 and 1929 . From 1929 to 1933 Hanns Dustmann was an employee of Walter Gropius in Berlin and an employee of Heinrich Wolff's Reichsbank construction office in Berlin . From 1935 he worked as a freelance architect and initially worked part-time at the cultural office of the Reich Youth Leadership of the NSDAP . In 1937 Dustmann finally became chief architect of the cultural office and the building department of the Hitler Youth . Of Baldur von Schirach Dustmann was appointed two years later "Reich architect of the Hitler Youth."

In the following years, Hanns Dustmann dealt with the National Socialist urban development plans for the renovation of Berlin and Greater Vienna . From 1938 to 1943 he worked in Albert Speer's office and in 1941 became one of the “architects in charge of the general building inspector for the Reich capital”. From 1940 to 1942 , Dustmann was building consultant responsible for the redesign of Vienna under Schirach, where he had a second office with 40 employees in the Aryanized Palais Albert Rothschild . On 1 February 1943 he was appointed full professor of design at the Technical University of Berlin and from winter 1943 by Speer for reconstruction planning of Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Mainz and advice for the planning of Stuttgart and Friedrichshafen in the bomb destroyed task force for reconstruction Cities used.

At the beginning of 1945 Dustmann first settled in Bielefeld as a freelance architect, but moved his main office to Düsseldorf in 1953, where he worked in the context of the reconstruction of Düsseldorf, which was destroyed in the war.

Until his death, he was primarily concerned with the planning of banks , insurance companies (Allianz, Victoria, Vorsorge) and office buildings, such as those in the old federal capital of Bonn from 1964 to 1969 , where he built the Tulpenfeld building ensemble in the government district . The construction of the BAOR headquarters in Bad Oeynhausen, which was not carried out , was also planned by him in 1951. As an employee of Friedrich Tamms , Dustmann was involved in the Düsseldorf architectural dispute .

Buildings and designs

RWE high-rise in Essen (status 2016)

• from 1940: Redesign of Heldenplatz in Vienna as a Nazi parade ground (unrealistic plans in collaboration with Adolf Hitler and Baldur von Schirach )
• from 1949: Reconstruction of the historic old town hall in Bielefeld as " Theater am Alten Markt "
• 1954–1957: Bank building of the Niedersächsische Landesbank in Hanover
• 1954–1958: Glanzstoff high-rise in Wuppertal -Elberfeld
• 1956: Bilka -Warenhaus in Berlin -Charlottenburg, Joachimsthaler Straße 5/6
• 1957–1958: “Victoria-Areal” with Café Kranzler in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Kurfürstendamm
• 1966: “Boardroom”; Brackwede district representation (Bielefeld), especially: wood paneling, chandelier, 1960s, excellent room acoustics; The split ceiling construction is to be emphasized
• 1961: RWE high-rise in Essen , Kruppstrasse 5
• 1964: Office center (with embassies and Federal Press House) on the tulip field in Bonn
• 1965–1968: “ Hustadt ” housing estate in Bochum - Querenburg
• 1966: Office building for the German Industry and Trade Day in Bonn
• 1968–1969: Sparkasse skyscraper in Dortmund
• 1980: RWE high-rise in Essen, Huyssenallee 2 (demolition planned for autumn 2020)

literature

• Eva-Maria Krausse-Jünemann: Hanns Dustmann: (1902-1979). Continuity and change in the work of an architect from the Weimar Republic to the end of the 1950s , dissertation, Kiel 2002
• Arne Schmitt: When attitude becomes form. Collection of essays on post-war architecture in Germany. Spector, Leipzig 2012 ISBN 978-3-940064-56-1
  • Review: Radek Kolczyk: Everything made of concrete. AS photographs German post-war buildings and watches them aging, in the jungle, supplement to jungle world 8, February 21, 2013, p. 12f. (with ill.)

Web links

Commons : Hanns Dustmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hanns Dustmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hanns Dustmann. In: arch INFORM .
• Arne Schmitt on the adaptation of the National Socialist Dustmann and other Speer architects to post-war conditions, with a short biography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hanns Dustmann Diebrock, Westphalia, Germany 1902 - 1979 Dusseldorf, Germany. In: Harvard Arts Museums. Retrieved October 4, 2019 . 
2. ^ ORF documentary: Vienna - Hitler's City of Dreams, 2017, film by Anna Sigmund; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InzK_KSM1UY , accessed on February 9, 2019.
3. ^ Jörg Heimeshoff : Rheinische Kunststätten. Architecture of the 1950s in Düsseldorf - secular buildings without schools and bridges (Issue 360) . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-88094-671-X , p. 21 .
4. ↑ Modern Regional: Essen: RWE high-rise in Huyssenallee falls
5. ↑ on the occasion of the exhibition in the Sprengel Museum , photography section, until March 2013. Excerpts, also on Dustmann, see web links