Heinz Wolff (architect)

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Heinz Arthur Wolff (born April 14, 1909 in Braunschweig ; † after 1983) was a German architect and urban planner in Braunschweig and chief curator in Hanover .

Life

Mosaic as a pavement of the promenade designed by Wolff in 1956 on the Hohen Ufer der Leine in Hanover

Heinz Wolff was born as the son of the Braunschweig engineer Conrad Wolff. He attended the Gaußschule in Braunschweig, where he passed the Abitur in 1928 . Wolff then studied architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig (TH) until 1933 , graduating with a diploma in 1932 . He first worked as an assistant at the Department of Building Construction of TH and in 1935 with his thesis The history of Braunschweig Bastionärbefestigung doctorate .

Shortly after the end of the Second World War , in 1945 he received a work permit from the British military authorities to work as an architect and town planner in his hometown. He later moved to Hanover, where in 1956 he designed the promenade along the Leine parallel to the Am Hohen Ufer street .

Wolff described the demolition of the Villa Willmer in Hanover in 1971 as "a cultural disgrace for Lower Saxony."

Works (selection)

buildings

  • 1956: Design of the waterfront promenade along the Hohes Ufer street
  • around 1959: Prospectus draft for the Bonifatius Church in Celle
  • 1961:

Fonts (selection)

  • The history of Braunschweig's bastionary fortifications. Dissertation in 1935 at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Fischer, Wolfenbüttel 1935.
    • also in: Yearbook of the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein. Second episode, Volume 7, Issue 1 (1935), self-published by the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein , Wolfenbüttel 1935, pp. 5-54.
    • Reprint of the original edition, Braunschweig: Archiv-Verlag, [2002]
  • On the possibilities of design with paving , special print from the building authority and municipal housing , issue 33 (1960), Hanover: Vincentz, 1960
  • The town center as an area of ​​application of plaster . In: Building Office and Municipal Housing. Central Gazette for Building Management and Public Building , Jhrg. 35 (1962), Issue 6, Hanover: Vincentz Verlag, ISSN 0005-6472, pp. 215-220
  • The reuse of old, usable paving stones in new systems , in: Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege. Volume 24 of the "Zeitschrift für Denkmalpflege" - Volume 24 of the magazine "Denkmalpflege und Heimatschutz" , Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1966, ISSN 0012-0375, pp. 87–91
  • The organ in the Herrenhausen Church in Hanover. Builder Hermann Hillebrand organ building (1967). Inauguration: Sunday Jubilee April 16, 1967 , prospectus draft by Heinz Wolff, [Hanover], 1967
  • Street and square as urban planning elements , in Heinz Wolff, Reinhard Grebe: Urban planning individual tasks I / II (= study booklets, vol. 20/21 ), double booklet with manuscripts of lectures by conservator Wolff and landscape architect Reinhard Grebe, volume 1, Nuremberg: Städtebauinstitut, [1967], pp. 3-28
  • Europe's bells and their towers , Hanover, 1983

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NN: 50 years of the Gaußschule 1909–1959. Festschrift of the Gaußschule Braunschweig on the 50th anniversary, Braunschweig 1959, p. 107.
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Am Hohen Ufer , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 79f.
  3. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 31, 1971, according to Friedrich Lindau : The building as a profit object. How a city disregards the will of its citizens , in this: Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. Schlütersche, Hannover 2001 (2nd, revised edition), ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , pp. 234–241; here: p. 236 and note 22; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Uwe Pape et al. : The organs of the city of Celle (= North German organs , vol. 13) (= publication by the Society of Organ Friends , Volume 178), Berlin: Pape, 2000, ISBN 978-3-921140-55-0 and ISBN 3-921140-55 -2 , p. 181; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ a b Music and Church . Die Zeitschrift für Kirchenmusik , Basel, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1962, pp. 47, 292; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Heinz Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH after 1983