Hans Hoffmann (architect)

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Hans Hoffmann (* around 1910; † around 1990 in Berlin ; full name: Johannes Hoffmann ) was a German architect who was involved in planning housing developments in newly developed Berlin urban areas in the 1930s and 1940s. After the war, he was able to carry out additional buildings on these settlements, which fit well into the existing buildings. Some of the projects he has carried out are listed as historical monuments .

Life

After school and studies, Hans Hoffmann worked in the Taut & Hoffmann studio in the late 1920s .

In the 1930s he lived in the then delivery district SW 29 (administrative district Berlin-Kreuzberg ) in Dieffenbachstrasse 75.

Hoffmann adopted the New Building style , Bruno Taut's preferred building type , and developed glass façade walls in front of apartment-wide balconies and bay windows as a personal feature, and he also designed complete glass staircases . Because of the extensive use of glass in his facades, Hans Hoffmann was nicknamed "Glas-Hoffmann" by building professionals in the 1960s.

Until the end of the Second World War, Hans Hoffmann did not go public with his own building designs.

In addition to his work as an architect, he was a board member of the Berlin building and housing cooperative from 1892 , which also employed him as an architect.

Buildings (selection)

Example of residential buildings on Attilastraße
  • 1928–1930: Marienhöhe or Attilahöhe settlement in Berlin-Tempelhof in the street block Attilastraße 1–19 (consecutive), Paul-Schmidt-Straße 7–39 (odd) and Tankredstraße 1–25 (odd), as an employee in the office of Taut & Hoffmann
  • 1952–1954: Arnulfstrasse 60–61 and Totilastrasse 29/35, extension of the Attilahöhe housing estate
Eulerstrasse 19
Glass bay windows on high-rise buildings as a design element
  • 1958–1960: new add-on buildings in Corker Strasse and Holländerstrasse
  • 1960–1961: Kohlrauschstrasse residential complex
  • 1960s: Hakenfelde settlement , Waldürner Weg / Michelstadter Weg; 6 elongated buildings with 3 or 4 floors; 2013/2014 topped up and renovated by the architects Ruiken and Vetter
  • 1970: Single-family houses, two-story row buildings and four- to six-story apartment buildings in Berlin-Buckow

literature

  • Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments, Berlin. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2006.
  • Klaus Novy, Barbara von Neumann-Cosel (ed.): Between tradition and innovation. 100 years of the Berlin building and housing cooperative from 1892. Berlin 1992, pp. 150–151, p. 106.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dehio Handbook, p. 510.
  2. ^ Hoffmann, Johannes> Architect, Dieffenbachstr. 75 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, I, p. 1284.
  3. ^ Hoffmann, Johannes> Architect . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1935, I, p. 1013.
  4. ↑ Comment: In 1927, neither a Hans nor a Johannes Hoffmann is reported as an architect in Berlin.
  5. ↑ a b c Architectural monument settlement Attilahöhe
  6. ↑ Brenne Architects website , accessed March 8, 2019.
  7. ↑ Eulerstrasse 19A / 19B
  8. ↑ a b Dehio Handbook, p. 205.
  9. ↑ Architectural landmarks Bristol Street
  10. ↑ Housing estate Charlottenburg Nord with the streets
  11. ↑ Part of the residential complex Halemweg / Heckerdamm Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  12. ↑ Corker Strasse, Holländerstrasse
  13. ↑ Residential buildings Kohlrauschstrasse 1, 5, 9 / 9A, 11 / 11A / 11B, 13
  14. ↑ Detailed description of the building ensemble during a walk through the neighborhood in 2012. , accessed on January 24, 2020.
  15. ^ Wohnhausgruppe (WHG) 160 , accessed on March 8, 2019.
  16. ↑ Hoffman's Buildings in Buckow , accessed on March 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffmann, Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH around 1910
DATE OF DEATH around 1990
Place of death Berlin