Hardt-Waltherr Hämer

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Hardt-Waltherr Hämer (2006)
Chamber of Agriculture Münster, 1951–1952 with Werner Ruhnau, Schorlemerstraße (monument, today: office and commercial building)

Hardt-Waltherr "Gustav" Hämer (born April 13, 1922 in Hagen near Lüneburg ; † September 27, 2012 in Ahrenshoop .) Was a German architect - especially in theater construction - and a university lecturer. He is considered the "father of careful urban renewal ".

Life

Ingolstadt City Theater
PaderHalle Paderborn

Hämer was one of six children of the architect Walter Hämer and Dorothea geb. Schömann (1900-1994). He studied at the University of Fine Arts (HfbK), today Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin, and at the state school for architecture (today Bauhaus University ) in Weimar . Before completing his architecture studies at the HfbK (1952), he designed the Schifferkirche (1949 to 1951) in the Baltic Sea resort of Ahrenshoop , in the construction of which he was actively involved with members of the parish.

The collaboration in the office of Hans and Wassili Luckhardt , ( Berlin ) from 1949 to 1953 followed from 1953 to 1957 the collaboration with Gerhard Weber ( Frankfurt am Main ) a. a. as planning manager for the new building of the Mannheim National Theater . From 1956 he planned several construction projects with his father and participated in competitions with him (including for the Sydney Opera House ).

From 1959 to 1985 he ran a joint office with his wife, the architect Marie-Brigitte Hämer-Buro. Important commissions here were the planning and execution of the Ingolstadt city theater (1961–1966) and the Katharinen grammar school there (1967–1970).

In 1986, Hardt-Waltherr Hämer received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich for his work .

University professor

On June 2, 1967, Hämer was appointed to the professorship for design at the HfBK Berlin (today Berlin University of the Arts ), which he held until 1987.

“At the end of the sixties, Julius Posener , Hardt-Waltherr Hämer and Thomas Sieverts taught at the University of Fine Arts (HfbK), today's UDK. They conveyed a new understanding of urban planning to the students, which is characterized by the reference to city history, the scale of the architecture and urban spaces as well as the perception-oriented reading of the city. "

In 1977 he founded the research focus on urban renewal there , which has a significant influence on the rehabilitation practice in Berlin. He also gave important impulses to the International Building Exhibition Berlin (IBA) 1984/87 . From 1971 to 1973 he was also the founding director of the Institut Wohnen und Umwelt (IWU) in Darmstadt.

Hämer had been a member of the architecture section of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin since 1970 and was its vice-president from 1989 to 1997.

Urban renewal

From 1968 onwards, Hämer was initially involved in a model project in the Berlin redevelopment area Brunnenstrasse in the Wedding district ( model renovation Putbusser Strasse ) in a controversial and non-conflict- averse manner against the clear-cut renovation that was prevalent in Berlin at the time . Against the resistance of property developers and planning authorities, together with the urban renewal work group he heads , he was able to provide evidence that renovating old buildings not only preserves and restores valuable building fabric and the urban image, but also keeps costs below the cost of demolition and redevelopment.

From 1972 to 1980 Hämer accompanied the urban renewal in the redevelopment area of ​​the urban redevelopment measure Klausenerplatz (SCK) in Berlin-Charlottenburg ; initially as a reviewer. His office was then entrusted with the planning and implementation of the renovation of 450 residential units in Block 118 (since then called the Hämer Block ). On his initiative, a redevelopment and participation process was installed together with residents and tenant initiatives, which guaranteed a large number of tenants to stay in the area or return to the previously used apartment with affordable rents.

From 1979 to 1985, Hämer was the planning director of the International Building Exhibition in Berlin, responsible for the area of ​​the so-called IBA-Alt with the focus on careful urban renewal in Kreuzberg. At this point in time, the contradictions of the traditional renovation and housing policy were most violently revealed in Kreuzberg , with vacancies, demolitions, housing shortages and squatting on the one hand, speculation, displacement of residents and arrogant power politics on the other. The “ 12 Principles of Cautious Urban Renewal ”, formulated in 1982 and confirmed by the Berlin House of Representatives in March 1983, documented the departure of Berlin's redevelopment policy from land and clear-cut redevelopment and a move towards a democratically organized, small-scale urban renewal taking into account established structural and social structures. The “Twelve Principles” were acknowledged and approved by the Berlin House of Representatives in 1983, and Kreuzberg also transferred them to the other redevelopment areas in West Berlin. They formed the basis of the “Guiding Principles for Urban Renewal in Berlin” adopted by the Berlin Senate on August 31, 1993.

The urban renewal in Berlin was Hardt-Walt Hämer on German reunification influenced also fundamentally.

Hämer was one of the committed members of the Stadtforum Berlin, founded in 1991 . Together with four other international planning offices, Hardt-Waltherr Hämer was commissioned in 1992 as part of the city forum to develop city ideas for Berlin. Under his leadership, an interdisciplinary working group (Bruno Flierl, Hardt-Waltherr Hämer, Erhart Pfotenhauer, Krista Tebbe, Peter Zlonicky) developed the concept of a 'city contract'. What was meant was a city ​​and social contract related to Rousseau's contrat social for a consensus-based development of the converging and, according to forecasts at the time, booming metropolis of Berlin for years.

In 1986, in continuation of his work for the IBA, Hämer founded the STERN Society of careful urban renewal mbH. From 1986 to 1997 he was its partner and managing director. Today, STERN is primarily a redevelopment officer in several districts of Berlin, but also as a redevelopment agency nationwide . STERN was u. a. In 1996 commissioned with a feasibility study to investigate the further usability of the former KdF seaside resort Prora on Rügen .

From 1995 to 2003 Hardt-Waltherr Hämer was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and its acting director in 1998.

Even after his retirement and the reduction of his professional activities, Hämer made a name for himself as a controversial advocate of city preservation. For example, in the conflict over the rescue of the student village Schlachtensee in Berlin, since 1998 he has played a key role in the context of its preservation and its renovation in accordance with historic monuments. With the decision of the Berlin Senate in March 2003 to transfer the Studentendorf to the Cooperative Studentendorf Berlin-Schlachtensee e. G. to sell, the demolition of the monument was canceled in favor of the renovation that began in 2006. The central path in the student village was named "Gustav-Hämer-Weg" in honor of Haemer.

Schifferkirche Ahrenshoop

Hämer had lived in Ahrenshoop since 2003 , where the renovation and expansion of the Schifferkirche to include a bell tower became one of his last life tasks.

Buildings and designs

Honors

literature

  • Wilhelm Reissmüller and Rudolf Koller: Stadttheater Ingolstadt. Festschrift for the opening of the city theater on January 21, 1966. Ingolstadt 1966.
  • Hardt-Waltherr Hämer, Marie Brigitte Hämer-Buro; Editors: Hardt-Waltherr Hämer, Jürgen Rosemann, Alfred Grazioli, Urs Kohlbrenner: Cost analysis of the model modernization of old buildings. (= Series of publications "Urban Development Research" by the Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development, 03.041) Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1976.
  • Hardt-Waltherr Hämer: Cautious urban renewal ; in: Senate Department for Building and Housing (Ed.): Urban renewal Berlin . Berlin 1990
  • Manfred Sack (Ed.): City in the head - Hardt-Waltherr Hämer. Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931321-47-9 .
  • Marianne Mang, Frida Zellner, Paul Melia: THINK MAL THEATER INGOLSTADT. The city, the theater, the architect Hardt-Waltherr Hämer. Ingolstadt 2003.
  • Andreas Molitor: Urban planning as a social innovation. In: brand eins, edition 09/2006. https://www.brandeins.de/magazine/brand-eins-wirtschaftsmagazin/2006/ortsbesthung/stadtplanung
  • Michael Bollé (Ed.), Karl-Robert Schütze (Ed.): Hardt-Waltherr Hämer. Architect HBK. Theater construction. Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89462-132-X .
  • Michael Bollé (Ed.), Karl-Robert Schütze (Ed.): Hardt-Waltherr Hämer. Architect HBK. Careful urban renewal. Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89462-144-5 .
  • Michael Bollé (Ed.), Karl-Robert Schütze (Ed.): Hardt-Waltherr Hämer. Architect HBK. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89462-169-8 .
  • Klaus Betz, Harald Marpe, Andreas Schmidt (arr.): "All in all a success story". The redevelopment of the neighborhood in personal memories. Hardt-Waltherr Hämer on his 90th birthday. Kiezbündnis Klausenerplatz eV, Berlin 2012.
  • Karl-Robert Schütze: Two gas stations - one architect? The construction of type filling stations at the end of the 1950s and their forgotten architects Willy H. Weisensee and Walter Hämer , in: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter 30, 2015, pp. 10-20.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BDA Bund Deutscher Architekten: Stadtgestalten - Hardt-Waltherr Hämer. In: Interview video. Bauwelt, October 27, 2015, accessed on October 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ On the death of Hardt-Waltherr Hämer. The savior of Kreuzberg. Article on tagesspiegel.de , accessed on October 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ Ursula Flecken: The public space on the move: A look back on 1970 , in: Ursula Flecken, Laura Calbeti Elias (ed.): The public space. Views, reflections, examples. (Memorandum for Urs Kohlbrenner) , special publication Forum Stadt- und Regionalplanung eV, Universitätsverlag der Technische Universität Berlin, 2011, p. 13. ISBN 978-3-7983-2318-6 .
  4. ↑ Guidelines for urban renewal in Berlin (PDF; 474 kB)
  5. ↑ Karin Berkemann: Ahrenshoop - Schifferkirche. In: Strasse der Moderne - Church Buildings in Germany. German Liturgical Institute, accessed on May 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hämer, Hardt-Waltherr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hämer, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen near Lüneburg
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 2012
Place of death Ahrenshoop