Hans Lehr (architect)

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Hans Lehr († after 1943) was a German architect .

Lehr was active in Nuremberg from 1912 at the latest and was appointed as a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA). Together with Karl Leubert , he ran the architecture office Lehr und Leubert , from which the planning of the Loher Moos estate and most of the plans for the historical area of ​​the garden city in Nuremberg emerged .

Buildings and designs

  • until 1914: later construction phases of the railroad shunting yard in Nuremberg
  • 1922–1923: Apartment building Rankestrasse 69 / Sigenastrasse 3 in Nuremberg
  • from 1923: various buildings by Eckartwerke in Velden -Güntersthal (factory building on the Pegnitz, shed roof building and tower; listed )
  • 1925–1929: Administration and storage building of the mail order company Josef Witt in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate , Schillerstraße 7–9 (so-called "old building"; late Expressionist ; listed)
  • 1930–1931: Administration and storage building of the mail order company Josef Witt in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate, Schillerstraße 12 (in the style of New Objectivity ; under monument protection)
  • 1937: Reconstruction of the society house in the garden city of Nuremberg

At the end of the 1920s, Lehr and Leubert took part in the competition to redesign the Platz der Republik in Berlin. The jury's verdict on their design included: “In terms of urban planning, the author is based on the idea of ​​converting the now existing east-west axis of the Platz der Republik into a north-south axis. He achieves this by inserting a new square into the existing square design that opens up on the side of the zoo in the axis of Siegesallee ... "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nuremberg City Archives: Memorial days, anniversaries and historical remembrance dates for 2012 (entry under 1937, December 17 ) , last accessed on May 9, 2012
  2. ^ Entry "Hans Lehr" in: "archthek" - Historical Register of Architects, Section Leberfinger - Leyser , last accessed on May 9, 2012
  3. ↑ Railway settlement shunting yard at www.baukunst-nuernberg.de , last accessed on May 9, 2012
  4. ↑ Further buildings from the time between the world wars at www.baukunst-nuernberg.de , last accessed on May 9, 2012
  5. ↑ Velden Monument List, as of March 9, 2012 (as a PDF document from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation; 134 kB)
  6. ↑ The Berliner Platz der Republik.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Städtebau , 25th year 1930, pp. 51–56 (on the design by Lehr and Leubert on pp. 54f.).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com  
personal data
SURNAME Lehr, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century