Hans Hörmann (building researcher)

Hans Hörmann (born July 5, 1894 in Munich , † November 12, 1985 in Schäftlarn ) was a German architect , building researcher and monument conservator .

After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1913 , Hans Hörmann studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich up to his diploma in 1920. After that, he joined the government building service. He also studied Classical Archeology at the University of Munich , where he worked in 1924 with the work The Roman Stage Front at Ephesus. A new attempt at reconstruction and its recognition in the context of contemporary facade architecture for Dr. phil. received his doctorate. He took part in the excavations in Didyma and Ephesus . Since 1928 he was a government building officer in Passau, where he founded the local cathedral building works. In 1934 he was at the Technical University of Munich with the work methodology of monument preservation. Ways and goals of the repair of buildings from antiquity and the Middle Ages to Dr.-Ing. PhD. From 1938 he worked as an architecture consultant at the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments , interrupted from 1939 to 1944 as an art protection officer in France and from 1945 to 1949 due to his impeachment. He retired in 1959.

Fonts

• Monument preservation and stone protection in England. Callwey, Munich 1928 (= publications of the Bavarian State Building Administration. )
• The inner Propylaea of ​​Eleusis. de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1932. (= monuments of ancient architecture , volume 1.)
• St. Severin in Passau. The church and its building history after recent excavations and investigations. Institute for East Bavarian Homeland Research, Passau 1935. (= publications by the Institute for Research on German Ethnicity in the South and Southeast in Munich and the Institute for East Bavarian Homeland Research in Passau , Volume 4; publications by the Institute for East Bavarian Local History in Passau , volume 13.)
• Ways and goals of repairing buildings from antiquity and the Middle Ages. A contribution to the methodology of monument preservation. Filser, Munich 1937.
• Conservation methodology. Ways and goals of the repair of buildings of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Filser, Munich 1938. (= studies on building research. )
• Cathedrals in France under German protection. Pictures and descriptions. Wegleiter Verlag, Paris 1943.
• Castles in France. Pictures and descriptions. Wegleiter Verlag, Paris 1944.
• The Passau Cathedral. A contribution to its building history. Filser, Munich 1949.
• with Josef Keil , Georgios Soteriou : The Johanneskirche. Research in Ephesos 4, 3rd Vienna 1951.

literature

• Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Ed.) Archaeologists' portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 335.
• Martin Dennert: Hans Hörmann . In: Stefan Heid, Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology. Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , Vol. 1, p. 658.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Hörmann in the catalog of the German National Library