Hans Heinrich Müller

Control room of the former Buchhandlerhof substation in Berlin-Mitte (today E-Werk )

Hans Heinrich Müller (born April 20, 1879 in Graetz , Province of Posen ; † December 7, 1951 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

Life

Listed former substation on Paul-Lincke-Ufer

After graduating from high school and doing an internship at the railway repair shop in Breslau, Müller enrolled in the course of mechanical engineering at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg in autumn 1898 . After one semester, however, he decided to study architecture , which he completed in 1903. He aspired to work in the public service and worked as a government construction manager (construction referendar ) both in the state building administration and in the private architecture office of Alfred Breslauer and Paul Salinger in Berlin. After passing the 2nd state examination, Müller received a position as a government master builder at the Prussian Ministry of Culture, but shortly afterwards he went to work as a community master builder in the then politically independent municipality of Steglitz . After Steglitz was incorporated into Greater Berlin in 1920 , he initially moved to the building management of the Berlin district of Neukölln .

Finally, in 1924, Müller became head of the construction department of the Berliner Elektrizitätswerk-Aktiengesellschaft (BEWAG). In this position he designed BEWAG substations and switching stations throughout Berlin and made an individual contribution to the German industrial architecture of the interwar period, which has been taken into account at least since the publication of Müller's work in 1992 (see literature).

Like Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Friedrich Gilly , Müller admired the medieval Marienburg , the influence of which in terms of volume composition, formal language and detail formation varies widely and is visible in almost all of Müller's buildings. With a keen sense for details and the treatment of materials, he reformulated himself for each task, refined his idiosyncratic, pictorial style, a mixture of radical, expressive modernism and Brandenburg brick Gothic . Functional perforated facades contrast with subtle roof finishes, abstract pillar fronts with pointed arches, gate passages and towers.

The great influence of his extensive work can be seen on contemporary Berlin architects of rationalism such as Hans Kollhoff or Petra Kahlfeldt and Paul Kahlfeldt .

Hans Heinrich Müller was born in his first marriage to Luise. Mehring († 1922) and her second marriage to her sister Susanne geb. Mehring († 1950) married, two nieces of the historian and publicist Franz Mehring . Müller was buried in the Lichterfelde Park Cemetery in Berlin-Lichterfelde in 1951 , the grave was leveled in 1972.

Buildings (selection)

Rectifier and substation at the water tower in Berlin-Lichtenberg

Scharnhorst substation in Berlin-Wedding

• 1909: Community double school in Berlin-Steglitz , Markusplatz
• 1909–1910: Steglitz power station in Berlin-Steglitz, Birkbuschstrasse (on the Teltow Canal )
• 1911–1912: Community dual school in Berlin-Steglitz, Gritznerstrasse 21/23 (today: Dunant primary school )
• 1914–1919: Steglitz water tower in Berlin-Steglitz, Bergstrasse (at the Steglitz cemetery )
• 1924–1926: Kottbusser Ufer substation in Berlin-Kreuzberg , Paul-Lincke-Ufer
• 1924–1928: Buchhandlerhof substation , Wilhelmstrasse 43
• 1925: own house in Berlin-Lichterfelde , Freiwaldauer Weg 32
• 1925–1927: Humboldt substation in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , Kopenhagener Strasse 58–63
• 1925–1927: Wilhelmsruh substation in Berlin-Wilhelmsruh , Kopenhagener Strasse 83,89
• 1925–1929: Wittenau substation and substation in Berlin-Borsigwalde , Breitenbachstrasse 32
• 1925–1929: Expansion of the Rummelsburg power plant in Berlin-Rummelsburg (boiler house), Rummelsburger Landstrasse 2–12
• 1926: Umformwerk Koppenplatz at Berlin Auguststrasse 56/57
• 1926–1927: Network station on Arnimplatz for Berliner Elektrizitätswerke AG
• 1926–28: Richardstrasse residential building and Bewag switch house in Berlin-Neukölln , Richardstrasse 20–21
• 1927: Karlsbad base in Berlin-Tiergarten , Am Karlsbad, demolished for Germania planning
• 1927–1929: Scharnhorst substation in Berlin-Wedding , Sellerstraße 16–26
• 1927–28: BEWAG base and substation Marienburg, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, Marienburger Strasse 23
• 1928: Rectifier and transformer station at the water tower in Berlin-Lichtenberg, Herzbergstrasse 111
• 1928: Zeppelin base in Berlin-Wedding, Brussels street 32
• 1928–1929: Christiania substation in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen , Osloer Strasse / Prinzenallee
• 1928–1929: Leibniz substation in Berlin-Charlottenburg , Leibnizstrasse 65
• 1928–1929: Uklei substation and residential building in Berlin-Haselhorst , Am Juliusturm 2–8
• 1928–1929: Köpenick substation in Berlin-Köpenick , Lindenstrasse 33
• 1930: Spandau rectifier works, Breite Strasse / Mauerstrasse 6
• 1930–31: Radickestrasse electrical power station in Treptow-Köpenick, Radickestrasse 59 & 61
• 1933: Oberspree substation (switching house) in Berlin-Oberschöneweide , Wilhelminenhofstrasse 78
• 1935: House Adolph in Berlin-Nikolassee

literature

• Jörg Haspel: Elektropolis Berlin. Large power plants and urban monument preservation. In: Walter Buschmann (Ed.): Coal power plants. Show of strength for the preservation of monuments? Klartext, Essen 1999.
• Paul Kahlfeldt: Hans Heinrich Müller (1879–1951). Berlin industrial buildings . Birkhäuser, Basel 1992, ISBN 3-7643-2760-X .
• Paul Kahlfeldt: The logic of form - Berlin brick buildings by Hans Heinrich Müller. Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-936314-08-3
• Franz Menges:  Müller, Hans Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 398 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Carmen Böker: Cathedrals of the stream . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 16, 2016

Web links

Commons : Hans Heinrich Müller  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans Heinrich Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolfgang Holtz (2003): Short biography about Müller on www.diegeschichteberlins.de (with other buildings)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ now gastronomy ( Memento from July 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Network station Arnimplatz , monument database.
3. ^ Start- up center & cultural project Christiania in a building by Hans Heinrich Müller in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen, Osloer Straße
4. ↑ since 2001 "MetaHaus"
5. ↑ E-Werk Radickestrasse 59 & 61 , monument database.