Hans Högg

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Hans Högg , also written as Hans Hoegg , (born February 22, 1901 in Charlottenburg ; † December 14, 1974 in Santos , Brazil ) was a German architect , urban planner , construction officer and university professor .

Life

Alfons-Hoffmann-Altenheim in Munich-Pasing, 1957

Högg studied at the Technical University Dresden and the Technical University of Stuttgart architecture . In 1928 he became a Dr.-Ing. With his dissertation Turkish castles on the Bosporus and Hellespont in Dresden . PhD .

Högg had professional positions in Radebeul, Rähnitz-Hellerau, Berlin, Hildesheim and Munich. After that he was a city planner in Szczecin . In 1945 he took over a professorship for housing, urban development and regional planning at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1947, his competition design for the reconstruction of Kassel's inner city received a first prize. He participated unsuccessfully in the reconstruction competition for Frankfurt am Main and was on the jury for the reconstruction competition for Hanover. In 1948 he was a member of the Kassel Planning Advisory Board and a consultant for the joint ventures in Hanover and Bremen. In 1949 he was again on the jury for the reconstruction competition for Hanover. From 1950 to 1956, Högg was a city planner in Munich.

In 1957, Högg became head of the Munich city building department and at the same time took over the newly created building department, which consisted of the town building department and the reconstruction department. Shortly afterwards, Högg went to Istanbul , where he was available to various government agencies as a consultant for the renovation and renewal of the city until 1963.

Högg died on December 14th in Santos while on his way to southern Brazil . His urn was buried in the Munich forest cemetery.

Works (selection)

Fonts

  • The main thoroughfares in city traffic. In: Baurundschau , year 1947, No. 102.
  • Rebuilding a destroyed city. The redesign of the interior of Kassel. Award-winning design from an architectural competition. In: Göttinger Universitätszeitung , No. 3 / II (no year, probably end of 1947).
  • The greening of our destroyed cities. In: Baurundschau , year 1948, issue 7/8.
  • Istanbul. Urban organism and urban renewal. Karawane-Verlag, 1967.

literature

  • Folckert Lüken-Isberner: Great plans for Kassel 1919-1949. Urban development and urban planning projects. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2017.

Web links

  • Entry on Hans Högg in the Hobohm - Höveler section , Historisches Architektenregister, "archthek" database at www.kmkbuecholdt.de , last accessed on April 23, 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d German Association of Cities (Hrsg.): The Association of Cities . tape 28 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1975, p. 96 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Winfried Nerdinger, Inez Florschütz: Architecture of the child prodigies. Awakening and displacement in Bavaria 1945–1960 . Pustet, Munich 2005, p. 347 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Carmen Maria Enss: Old town under renovation. The reconstruction of the Munich Kreuzviertel between 1945 and 1958. Dissertation, Technical University of Munich, 2013, p. 111.
  4. ↑ Noyan Dinçkal: Istanbul and the water. On the history of water supply and wastewater disposal from the middle of the 19th century to 1966. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2004, p. 261.
  5. ↑ Reinhard Bauer, Knuth Weidlich: Schwabing. The district book. HPV / Historika Photoverlag, 1993, p. 157.
personal data
SURNAME Högg, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoegg, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner, construction officer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1974
Place of death Santos , Brazil