Hans Heinrich Grotjahn

Hans Heinrich Grotjahn , baptized as Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Grotjahn (* July 17, 1887 in Hanover ; † January 9, 1962 in Stuttgart-Vaihingen ), was a German architect who worked in the 1920s in the style of New Objectivity and New Building built.

Life

First he completed a business apprenticeship in Hanover. From 1903 he attended the building trade school in Hildesheim and then as an intern ( guest student ) at the Technical University of Stuttgart . From 1917 he worked as an architect in Leipzig, in 1936 he moved to (Stuttgart-) Vaihingen. Grotjahn was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA).

Reconciliation Church in Leipzig-Gohlis

Competition design 1915, planned for execution after 1918: “ Bürgerresource ” community building in Stralsund (planned building site: corner of Knieperdamm / Strandstraße).
1926: Town hall in Mölkau
1928: Competition design for an administration building for the Dessau General Local Health Insurance Fund (awarded 1st prize)
Competition design 1928, execution 1929–1932: Ev.-luth. Reconciliation Church in Leipzig-Gohlis , Franz-Mehring-Straße and Viertelsweg (near the Krochsiedlung )
1929: Residential buildings at Magdeburger Strasse 18–32 in Leipzig-Gohlis
1929: Competition design for a museum in Bautzen (awarded with a purchase, not executed)

Johannes Herz: A modern Protestant church building. The Reconciliation Church in Leipzig. Architect BDA Hans Heinrich Grotjahn. Friedrich Ernst Huebsch Verlag GmbH, Berlin and Leipzig 1932.
Henrike Dietze, Dieter Michel, Sieghard Mühlmann (Ed.): The Reconciliation Church in Leipzig-Gohlis. History and present of a building of classical modernism. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-936508-46-8
Literature by and about Hans Heinrich Grotjahn in the catalog of the German National Library