Hans Freese (architect)

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The Breker Atelier in Berlin
The former forced labor camp 75/76

Hans Freese (born July 2, 1889 in Oldenburg , † January 13, 1953 in Berlin ; full name Johannes Dietrich Georg Freese ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Hans Freese studied architecture in Munich, Dresden and Berlin. In the mid-1920s he was a city planner in Düsseldorf. In 1927 he became a professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , where he taught design and urban development until 1930, parallel to Roman Heiligenthal . He followed Walter Sackur, who taught urban and rural engineering as well as urban planning in Karlsruhe from 1912 to 1925 . After Freese followed the chair of the architects Otto Ernst Schweizer as a professor for urban planning, settlement and design . In 1929 Freese was appointed to the Dresden Technical University .

In Düsseldorf , where he worked as a town planner from 1921 to 1926, Freese created the Rheinstadion in 1925 and various exhibition buildings on the GeSoLei in 1926 , including the Schnellenburg . At the beginning of his time in Karlsruhe , today's Max Planck Institute for Medical Research was established in Heidelberg from 1928 to 1930 . Among his most famous buildings is one of the studio of Arno Breker in Berlin , it was built from 1939 to 1942. From 1941 Freese taught as a full professor for designs and perspective at the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

In 1943 Freese was commissioned by the general building inspector for the Reich capital to build forced labor camp 75/76 in Berlin-Niederschöneweide . The Nazi Forced Labor Documentation Center is located in the barracks of the last surviving forced labor camp in Berlin . In the last year of the war, Freese became a member of the task force for the reconstruction of bombed-out cities .

After the war Freese was briefly (from 1949 to 1950) rector of the Technical University of Berlin . From 1950 he headed the newly founded Institute for Hospital Construction. Freese's last building designed by him was that of the Foreign Office in Bonn . When it opened in 1955, it was the largest administrative complex in Germany.

family

In 1924 Hans Freese married Hedwig Augusta von Oehmke (* 1905 in St. Petersburg; † 1988). After escaping from Russia in 1917, she came to Düsseldorf via Riga, where she trained as a secretary in 1921. The two sons were born in 1925 and 1927. After the death of her husband - she had meanwhile developed into a mosaic artist, painter and illustrator - she married the architect Wassili Luckhardt in Berlin in 1959 . Hedja Luckhardt-Freese moved to Hamburg in 1976.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Documentation Center Nazi Forced Labor. In: ns-zwangsarbeit.de, accessed on June 6, 2020.
    Gabriele Layer-Jung, Cord Pagenstecher: From the forgotten warehouse to the documentation center? The former Nazi forced labor camp in Berlin-Schöneweide. P. 2 ( zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de ( memento from August 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 149 kB, accessed on November 11, 2007]; on GBI -Lager 75/76).
  2. ^ The university management of the Technical University of Berlin since 1946. Section: Rectors 1946–1970. In: tu.berlin, accessed June 7, 2020.
  3. ^ [Subject] Design, buildings of the health system. The history of the subject ( memento of March 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: tu-berlin.de, accessed November 11, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Freese, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freese, Johannes Dietrich Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldenburg)
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1953
Place of death Berlin