Hans Geber

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Hans Geber (March 1, 1889 - February 20, 1973 ) was a German architect .

Life

After studying in Munich, Geber initially worked as a government master builder in East Prussia and as a site manager for an industrial company. From 1924 he worked in Berlin as a freelance architect. After the Second World War, mostly in collaboration with his partner Otto Risse (1898–1989), he created important examples of post-war modernism in this city , including for the Free University of Berlin .

buildings

(all in Berlin)

  • 1952: Bayer-Haus office and commercial building , Kurfürstendamm 178/179 (with cracks)
  • 1955: Hoechst-Haus , Hardenbergstraße 11 / Steinplatz 1 (with cracks)
  • 1956: Hamburg-Mannheimer Versicherung's office building, Kurfürstendamm 32 (with cracks)
  • 1958: Building of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the Free University of Berlin , Garystraße 21 (with cracks)
  • 1959: Building of the Law Faculty of the Free University of Berlin, Van't-Hoff-Straße 8 (with cracks)
  • 1961: Stephanus Church in Zehlendorf, Hochbaumstraße 78 (with cracks)
  • 1963: Building for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry of the Free University of Berlin, Fabeckstraße 34/36 (with cracks)
  • 1964: Helmuth-James-von-Moltke primary school, Heckerdamm 221 (with Risse and Hans Bandel )
  • 1972: Raiffeisenhaus, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 3–5 (with cracks)

  • Bayer House

  • Hoechst house

  • Hamburg-Mannheimer

  • FU Berlin, Economics

  • Stephanuskirche

  • Raiffeisen House

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Haus Bayer on www.berlin.de (Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf from A to Z), last accessed on July 7, 2012, also Schulz, Der Tagesspiegel of July 12, 2012 and Roman Hillmann: The first post-war modernity, 2011
  2. ↑ Hamburg-Mannheimer Versicherung's office building on luise-berlin.de , Berliner Bezirkslexikon of Edition Luisenstadt (accessed on July 7, 2012)
  3. ↑ cf. also information and pictures of the renovated legal library (accessed on April 13, 2015)
  4. ↑ Sights: Ernst-Reuter-Platz. Berlin.de, Internet portal of the State of Berlin (accessed June 14, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Geber, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1889
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 1973