Hans Bettex

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Hans Bettex (also: Hanns Bettex ; born April 24, 1899 in Stuttgart ; † February 11, 1963 in the Niedernhägener peasantry ) was a Swiss and later German architect and local politician .

Life

Hanns Bettex was born in Stuttgart in the late founding period in 1899 as the youngest of 18 children from two marriages of Jean Frederic Bettex (1837–1915) from Switzerland, who was teaching at the Evangelical Daughter Institute , and Gertrud, née Ebner (1862–1944). From 1902 he grew up in Überlingen on Lake Constance , where he attended the local elementary school. In the year of the beginning of the First World War he moved to Allmannsdorf near Konstanz and attended the Konstanzer Gymnasium .

From 1918 to 1922 Bettex studied at the Technical University in Stuttgart with Paul Bonatz . After graduating as a Dipl.-Ing. specializing in architecture, Bettex worked from 1922 and until 1927 in the Bonatz office on the second construction phase of Stuttgart's main train station . This participation was temporarily interrupted by the appointment of Bettex to Hanover in 1926 by the city planning officer Karl Elkart .

Tower of the City Library of Hanover built in 1931 with Karl Elkart on Hildesheimer Strasse , listed as a historical monument

From 1926 - and until 1935 - Hanns Bettex worked under Elkart as a design architect on the planning of the large Hanoverian residential program begun during the Weimar Republic and the design of public buildings.

In the meantime, Bettex had adopted Prussian citizenship in 1928 and in the same year married his wife Christa Dorothea, née Dieterich, who came from Ludwigsburg .

From 1936 until 1939, Hanns Bettex was involved in the renovation of Hanover's old town as planned during the Nazi era , particularly around the Ballhof and - across the board - the renovation of the backyards in Hanover's old town. During these years, Bettex was also involved in the urban planning of Hanover.

During the Second World War , Bettex planned and built air raid shelters for the civilian population from 1940 until 1945, the final year of the war .

As early as 1946, under the British military government , Hanns Bettex was involved in the reconstruction and repair of the city, which was badly damaged by the air raids on Hanover - activities that he pursued until 1962.

In the meantime, Bettex had been elected to the local council of the Niedernhägen farmers as a non-party member - and was always re-elected in subsequent local elections.

In 1953 the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning accepted the architect as a member.

In Isernhagen-Süd , Bettex took an active part in the founding of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Philip .

Bettex acted as chairman of the Evangelical Academic Association, Lower Saxony State Association . He was also involved in the Protestant Study Foundation Villigst and the Loccumer Kreis and acted as an adviser for the Pestalozzi Foundation in Großburgwedel .

In 1962, Hanns Bettex took early retirement for health reasons. He died the following year and was buried “Am Wäldchen” in the Isernhagen NB-Süd district cemetery.

Works

Fonts

  • Hans Bettex (arrangement, introduction): Des Deutschen Eigenheim. Draft portfolio of the Leonberger Bausparkasse , 68 pages with illustrations, sales price 1.50 Reichsmarks , Leonberg-Württemberg: Leonberger Bausparkasse, [1936]

Buildings (incomplete)

Web links

Commons : Hans Bettex  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Bettex, Hans , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 30, 147, 171, 263
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l P. and A. Bettex: Curriculum vitae of the architect and city planner Hanns Bettex (1899–1963) (PDF document) from st-philippus-kirche.de , last accessed on April 11, 2017
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Südstadt . In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 612f .; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Hannover Chronik , p. 247; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Bettex, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bettex, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss and German architect, urban planner and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1963
Place of death Isernhagen