Hannsgeorg Beckert

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Hannsgeorg Beckert (born September 13, 1927 in Lichtenstein / Saxony , † May 28, 1978 in Frankfurt am Main ; full name Hannsgeorg Paul Ludwig Beckert ) was a German architect .

Life

After Reich Labor Service in Prague, used on the German eastern front , followed by a prisoner of war was, from the Hanns Georg Beckert flee, he won in 1946 the Abitur and began to study architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . He took u. a. Lectures with Egon Eiermann .

From 1951 Beckert worked in the architecture office Apel, Letocha, Rohrer, Herdt in Frankfurt am Main. In 1953 Otto Apel opened his own office, for which Hannsgeorg Beckert worked as a freelancer from then on. In 1961 Otto Apel founded a joint architecture office with the engineer Gilbert Becker and Hannsgeorg Beckert, which they called "ABB" (Apel, Beckert & Becker). After Otto Apel's death in 1966, this name was continued and now it stood for “Architects Beckert + Becker and Partners”. When Hannsgeorg Beckert died in 1978, the partners Becker, Hanig, Scheid and Schmidt continued the architecture office. a. built the development initially planned for the Schörghuber Group since the mid-1970s on the grounds of the Löwensteinschen Palais in Frankfurt am Main with a double-towered office tower for Deutsche Bank from the end of 1978.

Work (selection)

In Otto Apel's office:

  • 1957–1963: Municipal theaters in Frankfurt am Main
  • 1958–1961: House of Electrical Engineering in Frankfurt am Main
  • 1958–1961: Lufthansa maintenance facility at Frankfurt Airport: aircraft hangar III (butterfly construction), simulator, on-board service, workshop building, canteen (together with Rudolf Jäger , Alfred Mehmel , G. Petry and J. Schmidt)
  • 1959–1961: Municipal Hospital in Frankfurt-Höchst

With ABB:

  • 1960–1963: Intercontinental Hotel in Frankfurt am Main (responsible architects: W. Hanig, HG Heimel)
  • 1961–1965: IBM data center in Frankfurt am Main (Jäger, Krätzschmar) and other buildings for IBM in Sindelfingen, Mainz and Essen
  • 1962–1965: Intercontinental Hotel in Hanover (HD Scheid)
  • 1962–1968: Department of Education at the Justus Liebig University of Gießen (W. Hanig)
  • 1964–1968: Northwest Center in the Northwest City in Frankfurt am Main (D. Praeckel)
  • 1965–1967: Braun AG office building in Kronberg (HD Scheid)
  • 1967–1972: Headquarters of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt am Main
  • 1968–1971: Maintenance Hall V of Deutsche Lufthansa at Frankfurt am Main Airport (J. Schmidt, L. Ey)
  • 1969–1972: Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Planegg / Martinsried
  • 1974–1980: " Silver Tower " of Dresdner Bank AG in Frankfurt am Main (HD Scheid, G. Schäffel, D. Mayer)

literature

  • Sabine Hock , Reinhard Forst, Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie. Personal history lexicon. Volume 1, 1994.
  • Gretl Hoffmann: travel guide to modern architecture. 1968.
  • Philipp Stumm, Peter Cachola Schmal (eds.): Hochhausstadt Frankfurt. 2014.
  • Peter Cachola Schmal, Sunna Gailhofer (ed.): Frankfurt projects by Otto Apel / ABB Architects . 2017.
  • Sunna Gailhofer: banks, stages, hangars. Frankfurt projects by Otto Apel / ABB Architects . 2018. [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Headquarters of Deutsche Bank (Frankfurt am Main, 1984) | Structurae. In: Structurae. Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
  2. ^ Architecture - Future City Theaters Frankfurt. Accessed June 7, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Frankfurt documentation on the post-war period. October 8, 2011, archived from the original on October 8, 2011 ; accessed on February 5, 2016 .
  4. ^ Lufthansa maintenance hall 3 (Frankfurt am Main, 1961) | Structurae. In: Structurae. Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
  5. ^ Hotel InterContinental (Frankfurt am Main, 1963) | Structurae. In: Structurae. Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
  6. ↑ End with the row settlement . In: The time . ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 4, 2016]).
  7. ^ Jana R, ow: Bundesbank Brutalism Goes Back to the Future in Frankfurt Revamp. In: Bloomberg.com. Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
  8. ^ Lufthansa maintenance hangar V (Frankfurt am Main, 1972) | Structurae. In: Structurae. Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
  9. ^ Campus Martinsried | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. In: www.campusmartinsried.de. Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Beckert, Hannsgeorg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckert, Hannsgeorg Paul Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichtenstein / Saxony
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1978
Place of death Frankfurt am Main