Hanns Hopp

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On May 26, 1954, Hanns Hopp from the Deutsche Bauakademie hands over the key to the first construction phase of the Tbc Hospital Bad Berka to the Minister of Health, Luitpold Steidle (left) .

Hanns Hopp (born February 9, 1890 in Lübeck , † February 21, 1971 in Berlin ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Hanns Hopp was born in Lübeck as the son of a building contractor and attended secondary school there. From 1909 to 1911 Hopp studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe with Friedrich Ostendorf . He finished his studies in 1913 at the Technical University of Munich under Theodor Fischer , who mainly introduced him to the formal language of modernism. Hopp attended a private painting school in Munich. In 1913 he went to the building department in Memel (East Prussia), and from 1914 he worked as an architect in the city extension office in Königsberg . In 1920 he became head of the technical department of the Königsberg exhibition center ( German East Fair ). From 1926 he opened his own architecture office with his partner Georg Lucas and became one of the leading architects in Königsberg. His biggest assignment was the planning and construction management of the new building for the East Prussian Girls' Trade School , which had many elements of the Bauhaus style.

Since public contracts became increasingly sparse due to the economic crisis around 1930, he concentrated on building one and two-family houses. The most famous building was the retirement home named after the women's rights activist Olga Friedemann in Königsberg, Maraunenhof in 1928. Here he did not develop a single room floor plan with kitchen and pantry and balcony room, but dedicated himself to each individual apartment.

At the beginning of the war, Hopp was drafted as a soldier, but in 1940 he was made indispensable for an activity in the state planning office in Königsberg. From there he switched to a concrete construction company in 1943 and was mainly involved in the construction of bunker systems. At the end of 1944 he used their Dresden branch to move from Königsberg there, and was appointed director of the Werkkunstschule .

In 1945 he drafted a rigorous rebuilding plan for Dresden, which he provided with bold high-rise buildings and large traffic axes regardless of the destroyed urban structure. In 1946 he was given a teaching position at the revitalized Hochschule für Werkkunst in Dresden. A few months later he became director of the Burg Giebichenstein art school in Halle (Saale) until 1949. There he set up an architecture class in the tradition of the Weimar Bauhaus . From 1946 to 1947 he was state chairman of the cultural association for the democratic renewal of Germany in Saxony-Anhalt (successor to Siegfried Berger ). From 1948 to 1949, Hopp was a member of the 2nd People's Council of the Soviet Zone .

By Hans Scharoun Hopp was also used to work at the Institute for Building of the Berlin Academy of Sciences appointed. From 1950 he was head and from 1951 director of the building construction department at the Institute for Building Construction and Urban Development in Berlin , where he was responsible for the planning of blocks E and G on Stalinallee . In addition, he received a master class at the building academy directed by Hermann Henselmann and Richard Paulick . From 1952 to 1966 he was President of the Association of German Architects in the GDR. He received construction contracts for representative public new buildings, e.g. B. the Kulturhaus der Maxhütte and the German University for Physical Culture . 1957 Hopp retired; he died in Berlin in 1971.

Stylistic development

In the early 1920s, Hanns Hopp's architectural style was based on the formal language of Expressionism, influenced by the Bauhaus around 1930. In the 1930s, he followed the spirit of the times in his private buildings, which, however, is still based on a traditionalist modern style. After the Second World War he endeavored to renew the modernism influenced by the Bauhaus, but then took part in the state contracts in the neo-classical style in the Stalinallee and other large buildings.

buildings

TBC sanatorium in Bad Berka
Agricola Hospital in Saalfeld

literature

  • Eugen Kurt Fischer: Hanns Hopp, architect in East Prussia. (= Neue Werkkunst ) FE Hübsch, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1929; as a reprint , with an afterword by Gabriele Wiesemann : Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7861-1835-3 .
  • Gabriele Wiesemann: Hanns Hopp 1890–1971. Königsberg, Dresden, Halle, East Berlin. A biographical study of modern architecture. Schwerin: Helms, 2000, ISBN 3-931185-61-3 .
  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 1: Lexicon of organizations and institutions, departmental union management , League for Friendship between Nations (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6348). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16348-9 , p. 549.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Lingner Foundation: Intelligence settlement
personal data
SURNAME Hopp, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor, MdV (Kulturbund)
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1971
Place of death Berlin