Heinrich Hansen (architect)

Heinrich Hansen (born April 2, 1881 in Aachen , † December 3, 1955 in Kiel ) was a German architect .

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Heinrich Hansen was a son of the Aachen-born master carpenter Joseph Hansen († 1928 there) and his wife Josephine Hansen, born Kuck († 1899 in Aachen). The father had set up a woodworking factory in town. Hansen attended a secondary school in Aachen and completed vocational training with an architect.

His teacher Karl Henrici was one of his sponsors during his subsequent architecture studies at the Technical University of Aachen . He made contact with Wilhelm Voigt , who gave Hansen his first job. From 1903 he mainly worked in the construction of the St. Jürgen Church in Kiel and for a short time in the fortification . One of Hansen's early works was the Chr. Sieck office building in Eckernförde , which he designed together with the Eckernförde architect Wilhelm Kruckau in 1898 in the neo-renaissance style.

From 1907 Hansen worked as a freelance architect. His first assignment was to build a new larger house in Gaarden . Then he made plans for numerous other buildings, the execution of which he supervised until shortly before the end of his life. He participated in many architectural competitions.

Hansen said of himself that he would rather plan buildings than accompany them. He stuck to his own ideas, which sometimes led to problems with business partners. However, due to his targeted advice and instructions, one of his clients said decades later: "The years of this collaboration mean an unusual enrichment for me in personal and professional relationships". When he took part in the ideas competition for redesigning the inner city of Kiel , Richard Sedlmaier judged in 1948 that Hansen had “intimate knowledge of local conditions”, but that his design was “perhaps a somewhat overly cautious examination of the given”.

From 1946 until the end of his life, Hansen belonged to the re-established Association of German Architects .

Hansen was married to Dora born on November 18, 1921. Wagner (born August 12, 1888 in Wellingdorf ), whose father Heinrich Wagner was a building contractor.

buildings

• 1898: Chr. Sieck's office building in Eckernförde, Langebrückstraße 1 (together with Wilhelm Kruckau)
• 1907: House for Dr. Kattein in Gaarden
• 1915–1916: Bohn & Kähler machine factory, Boninstrasse residential building (brick with stone)
• 1921–1922: Houses Sandkuhle 1–3 and Schülperbaum 2–14
• 1924–1925: Residential buildings on Zastrowstrasse ( slurry sand-lime brick ), workshops for Gebr. Andersen in Hassee
• 1926–1927: Residential buildings Schülperbaum 9–11 and Wichmannstrasse 2–6
• 1929: Office building of the Provincial Insurance Company in Kiel, Sophienblatt
• between 1930 and 1939:
  • Agricultural winter school in Eckernförde
  • Round silo from Chr. Sieck at the port in Eckernförde
  • Two silos in Kappeln for Sieck and Getreide AG
  • Two silos for GW Löwe and the Ohlerich company in Wismar
  • Office building of the Sieck company in Gettorf
• 1935–1937: Krusenrott Catholic Monastery in Kiel
• 1935–1937: Residential and commercial building for the meat factory Ehlers & Co.
• 1947–1948: Warehouses for the Langness company in Kiel
• from 1948: Reconstruction of the Kiel City Theater (together with Guido Widmann and Werner Kallmorgen )
• 1949: Reconstruction of the sand pit for residential construction in Kiel, Dietrichsdorfer Höhe residential buildings (together with Karl Doormann)

Competition designs

• 1914: Agricultural winter school in Bad Oldesloe (together with Heinrich Speck , awarded 3rd prize)
• 1920–1921: Museum buildings in Dresden
• 1924: Ludwig-Nissen-Haus in Husum (awarded 2nd prize)
• 1939: Expansion of a marine settlement for 75,000 residents in Wilhelmshaven (together with the architects Suhr and Delz, awarded 1st prize)
• 1940: Town hall and city theater in Schleswig
• 1948: Ideas competition for the redesign of downtown Kiel (4th purchase)
• 1953: New construction of an administration building for the Oberpostdirektion Kiel and the post office 1 (together with Bernhard Voss)

literature

• Rudolf Jaeger: Hansen, Heinrich . In: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 4, Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1976, pp. 79-80.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Museumsverein Eckernförde eV, City of Eckernförde (Hrsg.): Eckernförde. A city tour. 2015, page 38.