Hans Väth

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Hans Väth (born February 23, 1897 in Geislingen an der Steige , † March 5, 1950 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German industrial architect .

Live and act

Northern machine house at shaft 9 of the Consolidation colliery , designed by Hans Väth, 1937

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 .

Fonts

  • 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

  1. ^ Zeche Consolidation: Geschichte , website in the portal industriedenkmal-stiftung.de , accessed on March 21, 2015
  2. ↑ funding projects , web page in the portal denkmalschutz.de , accessed on 21 March 2015
  3. ↑ See image document Huckingen, Mannesmann-Werke in the portal bildindex.de , accessed on March 22, 2015
  4. ↑ See monthly booklets for architecture and urban development , year 1941, p. 16.
  5. ↑ Harro Segeberg: Mediale Mobilmachung I. The Third Reich and the film . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 978-3-77053-863-8 , p. 116.
  6. ↑ 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  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blb.nrw.de
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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 )
  9. ^ 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 )
  10. ↑ 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.
personal data
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