Heinrich Amsinck (architect)

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Heinrich Amsinck (born May 18, 1892 in Hamburg ; † January 19, 1968 there ) was a German architect and polo player . As a member of the German polo selection, he took part in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

Life

The grandson of the shipowner of the same name comes from the Amsinck merchant family, who have lived in Hamburg since the 16th century . He graduated from Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg and then studied in Geneva (where he also attended the conservatory for a while) and at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . In 1914 he interrupted his studies to take part in the First World War as a volunteer and continued in Dresden in 1919, where he took his main diploma examination with Martin Dülfer in 1921 . Amsinck then worked for a few years in Otto Schubert's architectural office in Dresden before returning to Hamburg in 1924. There he joined the Bensel & Kamps office and soon made a name for himself as an architect of new building , e. B. through the club house of the Hamburg Polo Club (1928), but also the construction of representative residential and country houses. His customers included Kurt Sieveking and the cigarette manufacturer Hermann F. Reemtsma .

In 1936 he was one of the German polo selection provided by the Hamburg Polo Club, which took part in the summer games in Berlin, but only took last place there .

Amsinck took part in the Second World War as a volunteer. After the war, he founded a new office community in 1948 and, in addition to the reconstruction of buildings destroyed in the war, mainly devoted himself to the construction of single-family houses. His best-known post-war project was the Goosacker School in Flottbek (1959).

In 1964 Amsinck suffered a stroke, which from then on tied him to the bed. He was buried in the Nienstedten cemetery .

buildings

literature

  • Jan Lubitz: Shaped space. The Hamburg architects Bensel, Kamps & Amsinck (=  series of publications of the Hamburg Architecture Archive ). Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich / Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86218-070-7 .
  • Jan Lubitz: Amsinck, Heinrich . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 21-22 .

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Amsinck  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Cords: 55 years clubhouse of the Hamburg polo club , in: Der Heimatbote (Bürger- und Heimatverein Nienstedten eV), 32nd year, September 1983, pp. 5-6, digitized
personal data
SURNAME Amsinck, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and polo player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 1968
Place of death Hamburg