Hans Kampffmeyer

This article deals with Hans Kampffmeyer (1876–1932), who was active in the garden city movement. For the Frankfurt urban planner of the same name Hans Kampffmeyer (1912–1996) see Hans Kampffmeyer the Younger .

Hans Kampffmeyer (born January 30, 1876 in Naumburg , Bunzlau district , province of Silesia ; † May 28, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a representative of the garden city movement and founder of the garden city of Karlsruhe .

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In 1905, at the age of 29, Hans Kampffmeyer came from Paris to Karlsruhe to continue his studies as a painter at the art academy. His occupation is given for 1907 as a painter . In 1911 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg with the thesis " Rheinfelden or the development of a modern industrial location" for a doctorate in economics . In Karlsruhe he held the position of "Grand Ducal Housing Inspector". His son Hans is born in 1912 . At the end of the 1920s, he and his family moved to Frankfurt am Main. During his time in Frankfurt, a number of articles and writings were created to further develop the garden city concept in the direction of garden suburbs (e.g. settlement and allotment gardens . Frankfurt 1926). He dealt with topics such as the situation of housing associations , the housing situation of workers and the furnishing of houses (see e.g. Frankfurt kitchen ). He was in close contact with Ernst May , who opened up the Frankfurt area with new settlements. Until his death he was secretary of the international housing association.

Engagement in the garden city movement

In October 1905, Hans Kampffmeyer and some like-minded people founded the Karlsruhe local group of the German Garden City Society (DGG), of which he was Secretary General at the time (see also Bernhard Kampffmeyer and Paul Kampffmeyer , who were also active in the DGG, which sometimes led to confusion due to the identical names) . The aim was to look for a site for a garden city on the outskirts of Karlsruhe and to find other interested parties for a cooperative that was yet to be founded . Negotiations began with the Karlsruhe city administration and the Grand Ducal Government of Baden about a suitable site, but dragged on for several years.

On March 13, 1907, a cooperative called Gartenstadt Karlsruhe eGmbH (registered company with limited liability) was founded. Hans Kampffmeyer was also a founding member and one of the three board members.

The first drafts for the development of the garden city Rüppurr come from Hans Kampffmeyer. These were then revised and further developed by the Durlach architect Karl Kohler and later by the senior building officer Friedrich Ostendorf . Only the Ostendorf version was structurally realized from 1911.

Hans Kampffmeyer wrote for the magazine Gartenstadt , the organ of the German Garden City Society. Within the garden city movement, he stood for a pragmatic orientation. He moved away from Ebenezer Howard's utopia early on , which envisaged the establishment of self-sufficient cities as garden cities. Instead, Hans Kampffmeyer's vision focuses on “garden city-like settlements” (formulated as a goal of the Karlsruhe local group in 1905) that are attached to an existing city as a suburb or district.

With the garden city of Karlsruhe-Rüppurr, he succeeded in realizing his idea of ​​better, healthier apartments in single houses, where the land remains in common ownership of the cooperative, but the members of the cooperative receive a lifelong and inheritable right to live in the rented apartments.

In 1917, Hans Kampffmeyer conceived the visionary project to found a "City of Peace". In the same year he published a call for the establishment of a "German People's House Association".

Fonts

• The garden city movement. (= From nature and the spiritual world , Volume 259.)
  • 1st edition (with 43 illustrations), BG Teubner Verlag , Leipzig 1909.
  • 2nd edition (with 27 illustrations), BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1913. ( digitized version at the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
• City of Peace. A proposal for a German war memorial.
  • 1st edition, Müller, Karlsruhe 1918.
  • 2nd edition, Verlag Eugen Diederichs , Jena 1918.
• The garden city movement and its socio-political significance , in: Archive for Social Hygiene and Demography 2 (1926/27) 575-584.

literature

• Gartenstadt Karlsruhe eG (ed.): Commemorative publication for the 75th anniversary of Gartenstadt Karlsruhe eG 1907-1982.
• Paul Kampffmeyer: Blood Relatives German Families through the Centuries . Dallmeyer, Greifswald, 1939 (history of the Kampffmeyer family )