Harald Leonhardt

Harald Leonhardt (born June 20, 1924 - † June 21, 2012 ) was a German architect .

Life

Leonhard completed his architecture studies with the academic degree of Dipl.-Ing. from. He worked in Hanover with the architects Edgar Schirmer and Siegfried Meyer in the joint office of Leonhardt Schirmer Meyer , also architects LSM , in the building at Hohenzollernstrasse 26 . The architects Reinhard Beiermann and Henning Meyer were later included in the office community, which in the end operated solely under the name Reinhard Beiermann & Henning Meyer Architekten LSM . Harald Leonhardt was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA).

In 1960 he and Arno JL Bayer won the competition to build a new town hall with an integrated theater hall in Delmenhorst , but the design was not carried out.

In 1983 he and his office partners Schirmer and Meyer received an honorable mention at the concrete architecture prize .

As a member of the Association for the Promotion of Architecture e. V., an initiative for the preservation of Lower Saxony's architectural and cultural monuments by the architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves and his former colleague Dieter Oesterlen , he was involved in the Landtag working group. In 2010, he and fellow architects protested against the demolition of the plenary hall of the Lower Saxony state parliament in Hanover in an open letter and at a demonstration.

Leonhardt was a member of the Lions Club Hannover and 1978/79 president of the club.

He was married to Sophia Leonhardt, b. Schulz, and lived in Grünewaldstrasse 8 in the List district .

Buildings and designs (selection)

• 1957, Hanover:
  • Goetheschule , Halthoffstrasse
  • Vocational school II, Lavesallee, as part of the Hanoverian vocational school center under monument protection
• 1962, Hanover: State Engineering School Hanover, Ricklinger Stadtweg
• 1964, Hanover:
  • together with Arno JL Bayer : Herschel School High School , Großer Kolonnenweg
  • together with Werner Dierschke : Sports hall with 6000 seats in the Volkssportpark at Ferdinand-Wilhelm-Fricke-Weg 8; the original stadium sports hall was named AWD Hall in 2005
• 1972, Hanover: Stadtsparkasse building at Bahnhofstrasse 13
• 1975–1982, Hameln -Tündern, with Werner Haller, Hartmut Nedden: Hameln youth institution , Tündernsche Straße 50; Landscape architects: Wehberg, Lange & Partner (Hameln)
• 1980–1982, Hannover, together with Bahlo , Köhnke , Stosberg : Finanzamt Hannover Nord II, Vahrenwalder Straße 206; Art in architecture by Ansgar Nierhoff
• 1982, Hanover, together with Schirmer and Meyer: Urwaldhaus in the Hanover Zoo
• 1985–1987, Uelzen , with Werner Haller and Hartmut Nedden: Uelzen correctional facility , Breidenbeckstrasse
• 1991–1994, Hanover, together with Schirmer and Meyer: VGH Insurance office building , Schiffgraben 4
• 1995–1998, Hanover, with Schirmer and Meyer: Extension of the VGH with a new main entrance on Warmbüchenkamp
• until 2002, Lüneburg , with Schirmer, Meyer, Reinhard Beiermann and Henning Meyer: Building of the VGH Regional Directorate Lüneburg, Konrad-Zuse-Allee 4

Honors (selection)

• 1983: Architecture Prize Concrete , together with his office partners Schirmer and Meyer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Obituary notice in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 27, 2012
2. ↑ Günther M. Adams, Hannelore Kress-Adams: Light spaces. Integral lighting solutions from Kress & Adams. Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 2003, p. 208.
3. ^ Martin Wörner, Ulrich Hägele, Sabine Kirchhof: Architectural Guide Hanover. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2009, pp. 86, 227, 245.
4. ^ Association of German Architects.
5. ↑ Reinhard Beiermann & Henning Meyer "Architects LSM". Company knowledge.
6. ↑ Der Baumeister , 57th year 1960, p. 517. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
7. ^ Jörg Rüter: City halls in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin. A social architectural achievement of the post-war period. (Dissertation, University of Cologne 1994) P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, p. 86. ( limited preview in Google book search)
8. ↑ ^{a b} Honorable Mention 83: Jungle House in Hanover Zoo (Harald Leonhardt, Edgar Schirmer, Siegfried Meyer, Hanover) , Architecture Prize Concrete.
9. ↑ Imprint. In: Lower Saxony State Parliament cultural monument. Association for the Promotion of Architecture V., July 2012, p. 12. ( pdf )
10. ↑ ^{a b} Stefanie Kaune: Platz der Göttinger Sieben. 150 opponents of the demolition of the plenary hall demonstrate in Hanover , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , December 5, 2010.
11. ↑ Do you receive or destroy building culture certificates? , February 2010, docomo.de
12. ^ Deceased members. Lions, December 2012, p. 64. ( pdf )
13. ↑ Wolfgang Neubelt: Harald Leonhardt, Rudolf Göhmann and Hermann Bahlsen - Lions Club Hannover. Lions, December 2014, p. 79. ( pdf )
14. ^ Presidents. Lions Club Hannover.
15. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Keyword Leonhardt , in Hannover Chronik , passim ; limited preview in Google Book search
16. ^ Alois Giefer , Franz Sales Meyer, Joachim Beinlich: Planning and building in the new Germany. Edited by Bund Deutscher Architekten , Verband Deutscher Architekten- und Ingenieurvereine , Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten , Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne / Opladen 1960, p. 462. ( limited preview in Google book search)
17. ↑ Bernd Haase: Big plans for the "Campus Waterloo". In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 21, 2016, p. 14.
18. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Keyword Harald Leonhardt , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (Ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 31, 32, 70, 89, 192, 201 , 275
19. ^ ^{A b c} Gunter Krawinkel, Sid Auffarth , Lower Saxony Foundation : From Laves to today. About state building culture. Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-528-08736-6 , p. 324, p. 325, p. 327. ( limited preview in Google book search)
20. ^ VGH Regional Directorate Lüneburg. Geotabs.
21. ^ Lüneburg. Regional Directorate Lüneburg of the VGH. In: DAB Lower Saxony (Deutsches Architektenblatt, regional edition Lower Saxony) 6/04, p. 16. ( pdf )