Heinz Meyer-Bruck

Heinz Meyer-Bruck, photo: around 1949

Heinz Meyer-Bruck (born July 5, 1927 in Hamburg ; † August 28, 1997 in Buxtehude ) was a German architect , art historian and artist .

He spent his youth in Hamburg, where he attended a humanistic grammar school. At the age of 16, he was drafted into the Air Force in 1943 and returned with a serious injury at the end of his military service. After completing a high school diploma in 1946, he first studied architecture at the Technical University in Braunschweig and then art history at the University of Göttingen . With the execution of architectural plan drawings, he also made an important contribution to the excavations on the history of the monastery, which were then led by Rüdiger Klessmann in the collegiate church Möllenbeck on the Weser . Meyer-Bruck received his doctorate in 1952 under Heinz Rudolf Rosemann with a dissertation on the early architectural history of the Brunswick Cathedral . From 1962 he took on a long-term teaching activity at the state engineering school in Buxtehude, which was merged with the Northeast Lower Saxony University of Applied Sciences in 1971 . In that year he received an appointment as the first rector of the University of Applied Sciences in Buxtehude. During this time, he was also involved in the planning for the new comprehensive university .

Stele at the Lühes Barrage by Heinz Meyer-Bruck

Meyer-Bruck's main interest lay in his work as a university lecturer, which also included teaching drawing techniques for capturing construction and details in architecture. His dedicated work for the preservation of old buildings was closely connected with it. His artistic activity also points in this direction. He has created impressive concrete reliefs for several public buildings, including the monumental stele at the Lühesperrwerk in Grünendeich , which is intended to commemorate the storm surge and the victims of the flood disaster of 1962 .

Publications

• The position of the Brunswick cathedral in the Saxon architecture of the 12th century , Diss. Göttingen 1952 (typescript).

Works of art

• Estebrugge, Stade district , school
• Grünendeich, Lühes Barrage, concrete reliefs
• Himmelpforten , district of Stade, school
• Kingdom, district of Stade, school

Web links

• Kerstin Lorenz: Heinz Meyer-Bruck, the creator of the stele , Hamburger Abendblatt dated August 16, 2011 - the year of birth is incorrectly given here as 1923.