Hans Kleinschmidt (architect)

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Hans Kleinschmidt (born June 28, 1882 in Wiesbaden , † 1967 ) was a German architect , railway construction officer and, after 1945, president of the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate .

Career

The Protestant Hans Kleinschmidt grew up as the son of a master tailor in Wiesbaden, where he also attended secondary school. On April 15, 1901, he enrolled for the first time at the Technical University in Hanover, but then began his architecture studies with three semesters (winter semester 1901/1902 to winter semester 1902/1903) at the Grand Ducal Hessian Technical University in Darmstadt. From his second matriculation in Hanover on May 5, 1903 to the summer semester of 1905, he then continued his studies in Hanover. In 1910 he passed the second state examination in building construction at the Royal Technical Higher Examination Office in Berlin , with subsequent appointment as Royal Government Builder (January 29, 1910).

As a result, Kleinschmidt found employment in the business division of the Frankfurt am Main Railway Directorate , where he was also given a scheduled government construction master position on September 1, 1918, with simultaneous appointment as government and building councilor (after the establishment of the Reichsbahn : Reichsbahnrat).

As a government and building councilor, he was transferred to the Mainz Railway Directorate in 1922 . In 1927, together with Carl Hermann Schieker , he designed the residential buildings on Schachtstrasse in Darmstadt for employees of the Reichsbahn in expressionist brick architecture. They are under monument protection.

In Mainz, Kleinschmidt was appointed Reichsbahnoberrat on September 1, 1927 and was head of the building construction department there. On August 1, 1938, he was finally appointed Reichsbahnbaudirektor in Berlin, where he was employed as a department head in the position of department president. In Berlin, he headed Department V and (structural engineering) Department 49 of the Reichsbahnbaudirektion Berlin, founded in 1937 . Shortly before the end of the Second World War , he was transferred back to Mainz. In Berlin, Kleinschmidt worked alongside Theodor Dierksmeier on » Speer projects«. His oeuvre was unusually large for a railway architect.

“Despite his leadership position during the Nazi era, Kleinschmidt knew how to bypass party affiliation with cunning and trickery (and probably out of conviction), so that he was“ unencumbered ”immediately after the war in Mainz, when he was department president in the Reichsbahnbaudirektion Berlin could be installed as president by the American occupying power. "

- Martin Schack

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Buildings and designs

Signal box Bingerbrück Kreuzbach
  • 1926: Apartment buildings for the housing association SIEGE in Darmstadt, Schachtstrasse and Külpstrasse
  • 1936: Signal box Bingerbrück Kreuzbach in Bingen
  • 1937: Competition design for the main train station in Thessaloniki

Fonts

  • The development of the railroad in the Worms area. In: Anton Felix Napp-Zinn: Culture and Economy in the Rhenish Area. Mainz 1949, pp. 275-279.

literature

  • Directory of the upper Reichsbahn officials , 31st year 1936. Transport science teaching aids company at the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Leipzig 1936, p. 153.
  • Directory of the upper Reichsbahn officials , 37th year 1941. Transport science teaching aid company at the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Leipzig 1941, p. 310.
  • Herbert Mundhenke : The matriculation of the higher trade school, the polytechnic school and the technical university in Hanover. Volume 3, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, p. 585, no.13.900.
  • Martin Schack: New train stations. The station building of the Deutsche Bundesbahn 1948-1973. VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-933254-49-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Directory of the upper Reichsbahn officials 1941
  2. ^ A b Herbert Mundhenke: The matriculation of the higher trade school, the polytechnic school and the technical university in Hanover.
  3. ↑ a b c d Martin Schack: New train stations. The station building of the Deutsche Bundesbahn 1948-1973.
  4. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 30, 1910, No. 15 (from February 19, 1910), p. 93.
  5. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 38, 1918, No. 75/76 (from September 14, 1918) p. 369.
  6. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 42nd year 1922, No. 27 (from April 1, 1922) p. 157.
  7. ↑ Folkhard Cremer (Red.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Darmstadt administrative region. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-42203117-3 , p. 167.
  8. ↑ Website www.infodarmstadt.de
  9. ↑ Dieter Krienke (arrangement): District Mainz-Bingen, Volume 1. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Cultural Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 18.1.) Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2007, ISBN 3-884-62231-5 , p. 164 ( online at Google Books, accessed May 31, 2013)
  10. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , 71st year 1937, p. 237.
personal data
SURNAME Kleinschmidt, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and railway construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH 1967