Heinrich Faller

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Heinrich Faller (born March 29, 1895 in Hainstadt , † 1945 in Berlin ) was a German architect and construction clerk .

Max-Lademann-Strasse group of houses, 1927/28
Housing estate Vor dem Hamstertor, 1928/29

Life

Heinrich Faller studied at the Technical Universities of Munich , Darmstadt and Karlsruhe until 1922 , from which he graduated with the rating “very good”.

Various activities with the architect Wilhelm Laugstein in Karlsruhe, the Reichs Vermögensamt in Mainz and the German Land and Building Society in Berlin followed. In 1925 he acquired the title of government master builder and at this point in time he began his work in Halle (Saale) . From July 1, 1926, he was employed by Bruno Föhre's famous architecture office in Halle .

He designed his first buildings in Halle in 1925 for the “Spar- und Bauverein Bund der Kinderreich” founded in 1925, of which he later became the managing director , small houses in the northern section of Benkendorfer Strasse, which arose within the new garden suburb “Gesundbrunnen”. The garden suburb, which was largely designed by Heinrich Faller, attracted a lot of attention in professional circles, for example at the 1929 “GRUGA” exhibition in Essen , due to its spacious design .

In addition to Hermann Frede and the town planning officer Wilhelm Jost , he finally became the most important architect and planner of the first municipal housing company in Halle, founded in 1922, Kleinwohnungsbau Halle AG, of which he became chairman of the board three years later. There were also close personal relationships with Wilhelm Jost, since he married his daughter.

Almost all residential complexes and settlements of Kleinwohnungsbau Halle AG, which were built mainly in the southern part of the city, were influenced by Heinrich Faller and are still significant for the cityscape of Halle today.

Particularly noteworthy is the Vogelweide estate he designed , which was built in 1930/1931 in the New Building style for 520 small apartments. In its stylistic and urban planning resoluteness, the settlement represented a singular case of programmatic modernity in the conservative hall of the Weimar Republic .

With the Reilshof settlement built in 1935/1936, which was also loosened up like a garden town and today, like the Vogelweide settlement, is a listed building, Faller, while preserving his urban planning ideas, made the adjustment to the officially decreed "decent building ethos", which preferred the architecture to conservative character in the sense of the homeland security style .

By 1941, Kleinwohnungsbau Halle AG had built 929 houses with 3,486 apartments and numerous shops under Faller's direction.

Heinrich Faller died in Berlin in 1945.

Buildings in Halle (selection)

Vogelweide settlement, 1930/31
  • 1925/1926 Northern section of Benkendorfer Straße (small houses)
  • 1927 tenement houses in Benkendorfer Strasse
  • 1927 Damaschkestrasse / Elsa-Brändström-Strasse residential complex
  • 1927/1928 group of houses at Max-Lademann-Straße 1–5 (listed)
  • 1928/1929 Stadtgutweg / Vor dem Hamstertor settlement (extension of the residential complex, listed)
  • 1928/1929 residential group Merseburger Straße 226–240 (under monument protection)
  • 1929/1930 residential area on Landrain
  • 1930/1931 Vogelweide settlement (under monument protection)
  • 1931 Paul-Suhr-Straße residential complex
  • 1935/1936 Reilshof residential complex (under monument protection)

literature

  • Petra Küpperbusch: From tenement to garden suburb. Settlement and social housing construction during the Weimar Republic in Halle. (= Research on the history of the city of Halle. Volume 14) Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2010, ISBN 978-3-89812-710-3 .
  • Simone Trieder : door to door - wall to wall. A housing and a history of small apartment construction in Halle . Hasenverlag, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-939468-84-4 .

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Faller  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Holger Brülls, Thomas Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 , pp. 109, 189.
  2. ^ Hallesche Wohnungsgesellschaft mbH: History of the HWG . Retrieved May 26, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Faller, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hainstadt
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Berlin