Hans Berlage

Hans Berlage (* 1896 ; † June 14, 1984 ) was a German architect , urban planner and construction officer .

Life

In the 1930s, Berlage was the head of the urban planning office of the then still independent city of Altona (Elbe) . With the incorporation of Altona into the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , Berlage became an employee of Hamburg's urban planning in 1938, and he headed the West Department from 1943. From 1940 to 1945 he also worked for Konstanty Gutschow's office. After the end of the war he was head of the Hamburg city planning office. His inner city concept for the general development plan of 1947, which he created together with Friedrich Ostermeyer , falls during this time . In 1950 he took over the management of the Hamburg-Nord building authority. On June 30, 1953, he took early retirement.

Fonts

• Altona. A city fate. Broschek, Hamburg 1937.

literature

• Ralf Lange : Hamburg. Reconstruction and re-planning 1943–1963. Langewiesche publishing house, Königstein im Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-4610-2 . (including a short biography)
• Werner Durth , Niels Gutschow : Dreams in ruins. Plans for the reconstruction of destroyed cities in western Germany 1940-1950. Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-528-08706-4 .