Hans Väth
Hans Väth (born February 23, 1897 in Geislingen an der Steige , † March 5, 1950 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German industrial architect .
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From 1918 to 1921 Väth studied architecture under Paul Bonatz and Paul Schmitthenner at the Technical University of Stuttgart . After graduating, he joined the construction department of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG as an architect . From 1927 he worked for the Dortmund mining group of Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG , and from 1928 for the construction department of the Mannesmannröhren-Werke , mines department, in Gelsenkirchen. In 1929 he received his doctorate with the dissertation of mine structures above days at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In the same year he was appointed government builder (construction assessor ). In 1935 Väth took over the management of the entire construction department of the Mannesmannröhren-Werke. He was responsible for numerous construction work for the Consolidation colliery in Gelsenkirchen, the Heinrich-Bierwes-Hütte in Duisburg - Huckingen (today Duisburg-Hüttenheim ) and other company locations, including a main building for a Mannesmann research institute in Huckingen and built in 1935/1936 a rolling mill built there in the same period as well as buildings for the Glückauf-Kampfbahn of FC Schalke 04 . The construction of residential houses was also one of his tasks. In the industrial film Mannesmann (1936/1937), the propaganda and documentary filmmaker Walter Ruttmann heroized the company's new factory buildings. In the years 1937 to 1938 Väth expanded the Mannesmann house in Düsseldorf with a five-story extension at Berger Allee 23, which is now also called “Väthbau” to distinguish it from the main building (“Behrensbau”). He coordinated the planning in 1936/1937 with the almost 70-year-old Peter Behrens , who had built the Mannesmann House in 1911/1912 and made changes to Väth's design himself. From 1938 to 1941, Väth was involved in the planning of an administration building for the Mannesmannröhren-Werke on the east-west axis in Berlin (Berliner Strasse / Marchstrasse, today Ernst-Reuter-Platz ). The General Building Inspectorate Albert Speers commissioned various architects to have Väth's simple design repeatedly revised against the sometimes vehement resistance of the Mannesmannröhren-Werke. As with Egon Eiermann , Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer Väth's architecture shows the continuation of the objective design principles of the new architecture for industrial buildings in the era of National Socialism . The city of Gelsenkirchen honored Väth by naming Väthstrasse in the Schalke district .
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- Hans Väth: Mine structures above days , dissertation, Technical University of Braunschweig 1929, submitted in 1928 ( PDF , with a foreword by Lars Büttner, Bochum 2005)
- Hans Väth: Newer buildings of the Mannesmannröhren-Werke . In: Wasmuthsmonthshefte für Baukunst , 15th year 1931, issue 9, p. 390 f. ( PDF )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Zeche Consolidation: Geschichte , website in the portal industriedenkmal-stiftung.de , accessed on March 21, 2015
- ↑ funding projects , web page in the portal denkmalschutz.de , accessed on 21 March 2015
- ↑ See image document Huckingen, Mannesmann-Werke in the portal bildindex.de , accessed on March 22, 2015
- ↑ See monthly booklets for architecture and urban development , year 1941, p. 16.
- ↑ Harro Segeberg: Mediale Mobilmachung I. The Third Reich and the film . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 978-3-77053-863-8 , p. 116.
- ↑ Exposé of the construction and real estate company NRW (PDF) ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , undated, accessed March 22, 2015
- ^ Herbert Rex: Architecture in newspapers and magazines of the Federal Republic. Case studies investigated on construction projects in Düsseldorf from the 1960s and 1970s . (= Institute for Architecture and Urban Research, IAS series , Volume 14.) Hanover 1981, p. 200.
- ^ Sara Stroux: Architecture as an instrument of corporate policy. Corporate high-rises of West German industrial companies in the post-war period . Dissertation, ETH Zurich 2009, p. 33 (Figure 9), p. 34 ( PDF )
- ^ Peter Reichel: Fine arts and architecture . In: Wolfgang Benz, Hermann Graml, Hermann Weiß (eds.): Encyclopedia of National Socialism . Verlag Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-608-91805-1 , (3rd, corrected edition, Stuttgart 1998), p. 162 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Peter Reichel: The beautiful appearance of the Third Reich. Fascination and violence of fascism . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 978-3-59611-356-9 , p. 307.
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SURNAME | Väth, Hans |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1897 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Geislingen an der Steige |
DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1950 |
Place of death | Gelsenkirchen |