Hartmut Colden

Hartmut Colden (born October 2, 1915 in Breslau ; † September 14, 1982 in Rostock ) was a German architect .

Colden played a key role in the urban planning of Rostock after the Second World War , including the reconstruction of Langen Strasse in the center of Rostock and the construction of the first prefabricated housing estate Reutershagen II in Rostock.

He took over and expanded the concept of the Bandstadt , a line-like settlement structure , also based on plans that had emerged in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.

In the 1950s Colden criticized the monumental architectural style of the Stalin era (“ confectioner's style ”) - for him a “superficial attempt to continue our architectural heritage” - and advocated a return to more practicality, also based on the high costs of these buildings .

Together with Otto Englberger , Karl Sommerer and Peter Doehler , Colden won the architecture competition for the publishing house “Neues Deutschland” in 1952 , but this design was not implemented.

In Rostock Dierkow-Neu , a prefabricated housing estate built in 1984 and 1987 , one of the access roads was named after him (Hartmut-Colden-Strasse).

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• Hartmut Colden: Reutershagen II residential complex in Rostock. In: German architecture. H. 10/1958, pp. 517-520.
• Hartmut Colden: Discussion about Reutershagen II. In: German architecture. H. 5/1959.
• Johannes Gerdes et al .: Social Atlas of the Hanseatic City of Rostock (graphic processing of existing data on the spatial and social structure of the Hanseatic city of Rostock according to districts). University of Rostock, Institute for Sociology, Rostock 2000.