Hans Krajewski

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Hans Krajewski (born November 24, 1910 in Vienna , † 1987 in Saarbrücken ) was an Austrian-born architect who worked in Germany from 1936.

biography

Krajewski attended the Oberschützengymnasium in Burgenland and studied civil engineering at the Graz University of Technology for a year in the early 1930s . In 1930 he became a member of the Corps Joannea . He then studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology until 1936 . He received his doctorate in 1944 as a doctor of technical sciences (Dr. techn. / Dr. sc. Techn.) In Vienna. From 1936 to 1940 he worked in Eberhard Gildemeister's architectural office in Bremen . During World War II he served with the pioneers .

After the war, he worked as an architect from 1945 and then as a building officer in the Bremen building administration, especially in the Bremen Building Department . One of his first plans was the restoration of the town hall in Bremen's town hall . School buildings followed, of which the habenhausen school became known beyond local borders. That is why an invitation from the US government to study American school buildings followed. He then headed a working group on the foundations for the development of downtown Bremen, the result of which concluded with the published report Tradition and Renewal . In 1950 he was successful in a competition advertised by the US Mac-Cloy Fund to promote German vocational school construction. Therefore, from 1952 to 1954, he planned the now listed vocational training center Bremen (BBZ) (today also Bremen adult school ) in Bremen on the Doventorscontrescarpe, one of the most important examples of modernism in northern Germany.

In 1954 he was appointed building department head and building director for the city of Leverkusen . 1957 he was appointed building department in Saarbrücken and 1959 election as alderman (city building director) of the city. In 1970 he finished his professional activity and was also adopted in the Bremen town hall. He then worked as an appraiser. In 1957, the German Werkbund Saarland was founded by Hans Krajewski and the architects Gerhard Freese, Walter Schrempf, the artists Wolfram Huschens, Peter Raake, Robert Sessler and Otto Steinert .

Krajewski was married to the daughter of Arnold Agatz , President of the Bremen Port Authority.

Works

  • Havehausen school center in Bremen on Bunnsackerweg
  • Elementary school in Bremen-Schwachhausen, 1951/1952
  • Walle youth home , Waller Heerstraße 229, 1952/53
  • Vocational School Center Bremen (BBZ), 1952 to 1954

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 83/241.
personal data
SURNAME Krajewski, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1987
Place of death Saarbrücken