Hans Stosberg

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Hans Stosberg (born February 10, 1903 in Lennep ; † 1989 ) was a German architect . From 1941 to 1943 he was special representative for the development plan of the city of Auschwitz and from 1948 to 1968 head of the city planning office in Hanover .

Life

Hans Stosberg was the son of Rudolf Stosberg, who was mayor of Lennep from 1897 to 1921 . The grammar school ended Hans Stosberg 1922 in Hannover . He began his architecture studies in Munich and graduated from the Technical University of Hanover in 1928 with the diploma examination.

From 1930 he worked in the city extension office of the city of Wroclaw . From September 1, 1933, he was the architect and managing director of “Stadt und Land Siedlung GmbH” in Breslau.

On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP .

In December 1940, the Upper Silesian State Planning Association commissioned him to draw up a spatial planning and development plan for the city of Auschwitz . There he had extensive powers as chief architect of the "Settlement Model City". He had his town hall design and his quarters in the "German Inn" built by prisoners and planned a German model town based on the medieval Silesian model. For this, the “Jewish city” with 7,000 people had to give way. For the concentration camp with its up to 30,000 forced laborers for the IG Farben chemical plant , Stosberg provided for “sufficient reserve area” in his spatial planning. On behalf of the city administration, he conducted negotiations with IG Farben as well as regional and supra-regional supervisory authorities. He had the following text printed on a New Year's greeting card for his "patrons and friends" at the turn of the year 1941/42:

“In 1341, Silesian soldiers, as saviors of the empire, banned the Mongol storm near Wahlstatt. In the same century Auschwitz was established as a German city. After 600 years, the Führer Adolf Hitler turned the Bolshevik threat from Europe. In 1941 the construction of a new German city and the restoration of the old Silesian Ringplatz were planned and started. "

In September 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , his successor was the district building officer Nowack.

After the war, when rebuilding the destroyed Hanover, Stosberg planned the car-friendly city with city planner Rudolf Hillebrecht and was head of the Hanover city planning office from 1948 to 1968. From 1968 he worked on larger building projects in a joint venture with his son from the Bahlo-Köhnke-Stosberg architectural community.

Fonts

  • Wroclaw bridgehead: An investigation into the urban development effects of the traffic routes converging in Silesia’s capital, their origin, their development and importance. Diss., Technical University of Hanover 1933
  • Retrospect and Prospect. in: Planning and construction in Hanover. Special print from “Baukunst und Werkform die neue Stadt” 2/1956, p. 35
  • Study and suggestion for traffic planning in the city of Munich. Munich 1961
  • Cologne between cathedral and St. Aposteln. Proposal for a continuous pedestrian diagonal. Hanover 1969

literature

documentary

  • Auschwitz was also my city , documentary by Konstanze Burkard , D 2008, TV first broadcast January 18, 2009, 3sat. - Contemporary witnesses tell how Oświęcim became the city of horror.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Stimpel: Architects in Auschwitz. Low point in architectural history . In: Deutsches Architektenblatt, 2011
  2. Götz Aly / Susanne Heim: thought leader of annihilation. Auschwitz and the German plans for a new European order. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-11268-0 , p. 178 .
  3. Auschwitz was my city too. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on September 23, 2016 .
  4. Thomas Gehringer: Documentation: Everyday Life in Auschwitz , Tagesspiegel , January 17, 2009