Hans Zimmermann (architect)

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Hans Zimmermann (born September 14, 1887 in Stuttgart ; † May 15, 1954 there ) was a German architect .

Career

Around 1905 Zimmermann began an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Stuttgart. From 1907 to 1909 he studied interior design at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin and around 1910 he studied architecture at the TH Stuttgart . Between 1910 and 1911 he worked for Peter Behrens . Here he met Le Corbusier . Around 1912 Zimmermann worked in the office of Bruno Taut and F. Hoffmann. From 1914 to 1918 he did military service. In 1919 Zimmermann was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and had a collaboration with the Niesky prefabricated house company Christoph & Unmack . In 1921 he married Amalie Adolphine Marie Pfeiffer, the daughter of a piano manufacturer in Stuttgart. During the time of National Socialism , the Nazi regime hindered Zimmermann in the exercise of his profession, because according to the definition of the regime he was half-Jewish . From 1950 to 1954 he ran an architecture office in Leibnizstrasse. 83 in Stuttgart-North.

His father Friedrich Albert Oswald Zimmermann was an editor, his mother Auguste Rebekka Zimmermann, nee. Levinger.

Works

  • 1926/27 House Schottländer, Stuttgart-Degerloch (block construction on the ground floor, fixed half-timbered construction on the upper floor, Christoph & Unmack, Niesky)
  • 1927 design of the "Stuttgarter Kleinküche" with his sister Hilde for the Werkbund exhibition "Die Wohnung" (Weißenhofsiedlung)
  • 1927 Haus Gugel , Stuttgart-N., Timber house construction Christoph & Unmack, Niesky (demolished in 2015)
  • 1927 Engelmann House, Stuttgart-N.
  • 1928 Mergelstetten gymnasium and festival hall near Heidenheim (wood construction by Christoph & Unmack)
  • 1929 Extension of the "Schieker School" built in 1925 by W. Scheel, Stuttgart-N.
  • 1930 Pfeiffer House, Stuttgart-N.
  • 1930 gym in Hettingen
  • 1932/33 Draft of an EFH for the unrealized Werkbundsiedlung "Deutsches Holz" in Stuttgart-N.
  • 1947–49 Reconstruction of the Hotel Silber in Dorotheenstrasse. Stuttgart

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stuttgart registry office, death register 1954, vol. 2 no. 1351 [Stuttgart city archive]
  2. ^ University archive Stuttgart
  3. ^ Stuttgart registry office, marriage register 1921, vol. 3, no. 924 [Stuttgart city archive]
  4. ^ Stuttgart registry office, birth register [Stuttgart City Archives]
  5. ↑ Dietrich W. Schmidt, A Spook at the Cooking Court. Werkbundsiedlung "Deutsches Holz" Stuttgart * 1932/33, Uni Stuttgart, IAG 2004
  6. ^ Roland Ostertag (ed.): The case of silver: A scandal . Peter Grohmann, Stuttgart 2011, p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1954
Place of death Stuttgart