Hans Reissinger

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Hans Carl Reissinger (born April 10, 1890 in Bayreuth ; † November 23, 1972 there ) was a German architect who worked in Bayreuth, Düsseldorf and Munich .

Live and act

Parish hall, Tersteegenstrasse 84 a – c, Düsseldorf-Golzheim , built 1929–1930

From 1908 to 1912 Reissinger studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich under Friedrich von Thiersch , Theodor Fischer and Karl Hocheder . From 1912 to 1914 he worked as an assistant at German Bestelmeyer in Dresden . After his state examination in 1918, he settled in Bayreuth. His first work in 1919 was the Herzoghöhe war- damaged settlement built for the local building association . In 1922 he created the west building (extension) of the Evangelical Lutheran branch church of St. Bartholomew in Glashütten . In 1923 the war memorial he designed for the fallen soldiers of the First World War was erected in Bischofsgrün , and a year later the war memorial for those killed in the war in Helmbrechts .

In 1922/1923 the Asenturm on the Ochsenkopf in the Fichtelgebirge was planned by Reissinger. When the church in Lindenhardt was restored under his direction in 1926 , Karl Sitzmann identified the pictures on the wings of the altar as works by Matthias Grünewald . From 1927 to 1929 worked as a city planner in Düsseldorf.

Career in the Third Reich

In 1934 Reissinger became a member of the NSDAP . In his apology for the denazification process his lawyer said in December 1947 of a "virtually inescapable predicament," the Reissinger have moved "to a purely nominal political affiliation". He was "completely remote from the party", "of course he always remained true to his inner attitude and convictions".

After his return to Bayreuth, he was commissioned by the National Socialist Lord Mayor Karl Schlumprecht with the general development plan for the city in April 1934 . In that year he designed a memorial for the National Socialist movement in the form of a reclining granite swastika with a clenched fist that crushed snakes protruding from the intersection. Regarding the 10,000 Reichsmark building, Reissinger said at the time: "I just gave birth to a monument to the movement". The 123 cm high swastika, which was erected on Bayreuth's Luitpoldplatz, was misused by the local population as a urinal and finally removed again.

In March 1935 Reissinger staged the pompous funeral service for the fatally injured Gauleiter Hans Schemm , at which Adolf Hitler and almost the entire Nazi hierarchy were present.

During the National Socialist era , he designed various building projects in Bayreuth:

  • 1935: Conversion of the margravial riding house into the Ludwig Siebert festival hall
  • 1936: House of German Education on Luitpoldplatz
  • 1938: Planning of a “Gauforum” for Bayreuth with a boulevard and a parade area for 65,000 people, surrounded by monumental buildings, etc. a. a “Gauhalle” with more than 10,000 people. Hitler followed this plan with great sympathy; at least on August 1, 1939, Hitler and Reissinger met personally on this matter.
  • 1944: Planning for the "reconstruction" of the city of Kassel, u. a. with Gauforum for 100,000 and Gauhalle for 10,000 people.

Time after World War II

On February 25, 1948, the Spruchkammer, which considered his alleged distance from the NSDAP to be credible, issued an atonement for a fellow traveler against Reissinger , which was accompanied by a fine of 1,000  Reichsmarks .

When the Richard Wagner Festival resumed in 1951, Reissinger was “responsible for the decor of the Meistersinger and also excelled as the author of two edification articles in the festival book”.

His last activities after the war include:

  • 1949–1962: Reconstruction of the Villa Wahnfried
  • 1954–1955: Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church in Kulmbach
  • 1960: Construction of the Kreuzkirche in the Kreuz district
  • 1961–1965: Conversion of the former margravial riding house into a town hall
  • 1962: Construction of the Resurrection Church in the Saas district

literature

  • Folckert Lüken-Isberner, Large plans for Kassel 1919–1949, urban development and urban planning projects. Schüren Verlag. Marburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-89472-297-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Mayer : Bayreuth in the twentieth century , p. 30.
  2. ↑ Inscription in the choir of the church in Lindenhardt
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Bernd Mayer, Helmut Paulus: A city is denazified. The Gau capital Bayreuth in front of the Spruchkammer . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2008, ISBN 978-3-925361-67-8 , pp. 158 f .
  4. ↑ A stair joke in history. How the Bayreuthers "peed away" a Nazi memorial in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from 28./29. December 2019, p. 12.
  5. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth. The last 50 years . 2nd Edition. Ellwanger / Gondrom, Bayreuth 1988, p. 56 ff .
  6. ↑ Jonathan Carr: The Wagner clan p. 331.
  7. ↑ Kurt Herterich: In historical Bayreuth . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 1998, ISBN 978-3-925361-35-7 , pp. 122 .
personal data
SURNAME Reissinger, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reissinger, Hans Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1972
Place of death Bayreuth