Hans Pieper (architect)

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Hans Wilhelm Pieper (born April 9, 1882 in Landsberg an der Warthe , † March 23, 1946 in Lübeck ) was a German architect , monument conservationist and construction officer , he was the city planning director and chief monument conservationist in Lübeck.

Life

From 1902 Pieper studied architecture at the Technical University in Darmstadt with Georg Wickop . As a government building manager in the state building administration, Pieper prepared for a civil service career in higher civil service after graduating in 1905 and was appointed government master builder in 1909.

After working in various architectural offices in Mainz , Wiesbaden and Cologne , Pieper was initially employed in the building construction department of the city of Cologne from 1912. In 1915 Pieper was appointed town planning inspector, in 1921 town planning councilor. Together with Hans Verbeek , he designed the exhibition and trade fair buildings for the city of Cologne . In 1927 he moved to Lübeck, where he initially worked as a senior building officer.

Site plan (1928)

With the construction of the sea ​​border slaughterhouse, the city's most extensive project fell into his area of ​​responsibility . Even before its construction, the cold store, with its direct connection to the general slaughterhouse, was the only such networked facility and the largest company of its kind in the German Empire and in the entire Baltic Sea region. The unity of the port, railroad, slaughterhouse and cold store was at that time as well as through both world wars for the supply of Germany, so the coal area of today's North Rhine-Westphalia was supplied daily , and also important for the economic prosperity of the city.

During that construction phase, Pieper was appointed building director of the city on August 1, 1929 as the successor to Johannes Baltzer . As the city's chief construction officer, he was also entrusted with the preservation of monuments .

His most important work as an architect is the monastery courtyard school in Mönkhofer Weg in Lübeck, which he built for 1931 according to the plans of the reform pedagogue Sebald Schwarz . He is best known for his reconstruction plans for the city of Lübeck after the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 , which his son Klaus Pieper published in 1946 after his death.

Pieper's work during the time of National Socialism has not yet been researched. Among other things, he was responsible for the conversion of the Lübeck synagogue, which was destroyed inside during the Reichspogromnacht, into a sports hall. His attitude to the extermination of Jews and to National Socialism in relation to democracies based on the American and British models is made clear by a sentence in an article for the Lübeckische Blätter , in which he voluntarily expresses the question of what Lübeck would look like in 10 years: Prophecy is a very ungrateful thing, "especially at a time when Germany is in a struggle to be or not to be not only with the British-American democracies, but - what is perhaps more dangerous - also with world Jewry ."

Fonts

  • Lübeck. Urban planning studies for the reconstruction of a historical German city. (Posthumously edited and edited by Klaus Pieper) Br. Sachse, Hamburg 1946.

Web links

Commons : Hans Pieper  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Gerhard Ahrens: Hans Wilhelm Pieper. In: Alken Bruns (Ed.): Lübeck resumes. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1993, ISBN 3-529-02729-4 , pp. 300-304.

Individual evidence

  1. Hans Pieper . Art in public space Lübeck. Retrieved April 10, 2019
  2. Hans Pieper: Lübeck in 10 years , in: Lübeckische Blätter , 1941, p. 203.