Helmut Dettmer (architect)

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Helmut Dettmer (born December 19, 1920 in Magdeburg ) is a German architect .

life and work

“Physical Institute” of today's Leibniz University Hannover , Appelstrasse 2 in the northern part of Hannover
Protest !” - Advertisement against the demolition of the Villa Willmer monument and for a Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act ;
1970 in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

Helmut Dettmer worked as an architect mainly in the 1950s and 1960s and in particular around the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover .

Dettmer had developed his own production techniques that enabled very short construction times.

In 1971, in collaboration with the architects Ernst Zinsser and Hans-Jürgen Meyer-Delvendahl , he realized the physical institutes of the then Technical University of Hanover at Appelstrasse 2 at the corner of Schneiderberg. The building was expanded in the 1980s along the Schneiderberg. The university runs the building at number 3701.

In 1997 Helmut Dettmer lived in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Ralph Haas: Physikalische Institut der TH , in ders .: Ernst Zinsser. Life and work of an architect in the fifties in Hanover (= writings of the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the Technical University of Hanover , vol. 15), also dissertation 1999 at the University of Hanover, 1999, vol. 1: Text , Hanover: Institute for History of architecture and art, 2000, ISBN 978-3-931585-11-2 and ISBN 3-931585-11-5 , p. 145
  2. oV : List of the buildings of the University of Hannover , in Wolfgang Pietsch Sid Auffarth (ed.): The University of Hannover: Their buildings, their gardens, their planning history. Edited on behalf of the University of Hanover, Imhof, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-90-3 , pp. 345–351; here: p. 345