Helmut Ullmann

Helmut Ullmann (born May 5, 1930 in Johanngeorgenstadt ; † 1991 in Leipzig ) was a German civil engineer and architect .

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Ullmann was born the son of a worker. After graduating from school, he learned the profession of technical draftsman between 1944 and 1945 at Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke (JFM) in Dessau . In the post-war period he learned the carpentry and bricklaying trade.

In 1949 he began studying at the engineering school for civil engineering in Glauchau , which he graduated as a civil engineer in 1952. From 1952 to 1953 he worked as an assistant and from 1953 to 1960 as a lecturer at this engineering school.

In addition, Ullmann erected numerous buildings in the area around Glauchau . In Glauchau, Auerbach and Leipzig, 11 single-family houses were built for private clients. Ullmann also built a day-care center in Oberwiera , a kindergarten in Auerbach and the cultural center in Schneeberg . These buildings were all constructed from 1953 to 1954.

From 1960 he worked for VEB Hochbauprojektierung I in Leipzig. From 1961 to 1962 he was responsible for planning the reconstruction of the Friedrich-Engels-Platz in Leipzig and the Leipzig Brühl . From 1962 to 1963 he rebuilt the buildings that had been destroyed in the war.

From 1962 to 1964 the office building of the VEB Chemieanlagenbau und Montagekombinat on Georgiring next to the main post office between Karl-Marx-Platz and Schützenstraße was built according to his designs . It was a 6-7-storey reinforced concrete - Skelettmontagebau (2 MP) with curtain wall and 440 office locations. The building was demolished in the 1990s. In its place, a Commerzbank office building was built (today: "Haus an der Oper", Georgiring No. 3 - including the seat of the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe ).

From 1964 to 1965 Ullmann built - in collaboration with the architect Wolfgang Scheibe - the "Hotel Deutschland" in Leipzig, later renamed "Interhotel am Ring" (today: " Radisson Blu Hotel Leipzig"). It was the largest of the three newly built Leipzig hotels. It consisted of a flat wing with a reinforced concrete skeleton and a seven-storey ward block with a 5 MP transverse wall construction. Horizontal facade structures characterized the building, as well as parapets with colored ceramic sculptures . The visual artistic design was carried out by Gerhard Eichhorn (1927–2015).

In 1964 he was appointed city architect by the Leipzig City Council. Ullmann held this task until 1967.

In 1967 he went to the VEB Bau- und Montagekombinat Süd in Leipzig as a complex architect. Here he took part in the internally advertised ideas competition for Karl-Marx-Platz including the high-rise building of Karl-Marx-Universität (1968/1972) and the main building of Karl-Marx-Universität (1968/1974), which was demolished in 2005 . Under the direction of Hermann Henselmann (1905–1995) and Horst Siegel (* 1934) as well as in cooperation with the office of the city architect ( Ambros G. Gross ), the DBA experimental workshop ( Karl Sommerer ) and finally the WBK Leipzig (Helmut Ullmann) Ullmann developed the basic concept for the construction of the Karl Marx University skyscraper and the main building of Karl Marx University. From 1968 to 1975 the buildings were built by Ullmann and his colleagues Rudolf Skoda (1931–2015), Volker Sieg (* 1937) and Eberhard Göschel (* 1943).

The university skyscraper , built from 1968 to 1972, is a strikingly figural building and has the shape of an open book. It was built in the style of a “ semantic architectural conception of the transfer of meaning through the symbolic imagery of the building, which is intended to express the characteristics of a city by means of a quasi-oversized sculpture . The largest skyscraper should be interpreted as a gigantic, open book, the curved roof top also associates the image of a waving flag ”. The main building of the Karl Marx University, which was demolished in 2005, formed the “political and intellectual-cultural center of the city” during the GDR era: “For the city center, the construction of the new building complex of the Karl Marx University was the decisive stage in shaping the political and intellectual and cultural center of the trade fair city ”.

• Buildings by Helmut Ullmann
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  Office building of the VEB chemical plant construction and assembly combine at Georgiring in Leipzig (1965)

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  Leipzig "Interhotel am Ring" (1974)

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  Main building of Karl Marx University Leipzig with bronze relief Aufbruch and university high-rise (1975)

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  Main building of the Karl Marx University Leipzig, university high-rise and seminar building (1986)

Awards

Ullmann has received several awards. He has received numerous awards, including a. the Schinkel medal.

Publications

• Helmut Ullmann: New building complex of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. In: Deutsche Architektur 1974, No. 2, pp. 72–91.
• Helmut Ullmann: On the design of the WBS 70 in the VEB Baukombinat Leipzig. In: Architektur der DDR 1980, No. 6, pp. 342–346.

literature

• Holger Barth: Helmut Ullmann . In: Holger Barth, Thomas Topfstedt (eds.): From building artist to complex designer. Architects in the GDR. Documentation of an IRS collection of biographical data / IRS, Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning. Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-934669-00-X , pp. 241f
• Joachim Schulz, Wolfgang Müller and Erwin Schrödl: Architectural Guide GDR , Leipzig District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1976, OCLC 874871110 .

Web links

Commons : Helmut Ullmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Interhotel "Germany" and university skyscraper by Helmut Ullmann. In: Deutsche Fotothek . Retrieved May 5, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schulz / Müller / Schrödl, No. 47 "Georgiring" between Karl-Marx-Platz and Wintergartenstraße. Office building of the VEB Chemieanlagenbau und Montagekombinat, 1962 to 1964, architects Helmut Ullmann, Eberhard Göschel; 6-7-storey reinforced concrete skeleton assembly building (2 MP), curtain wall, 440 office spaces.
2. ↑ Schulz / Müller / Schrödl, No. 38 “Interhotel Am Ring”, Karl-Marx-Platz 5–6, 1963–1966, architect Helmut Ullmann, Wolfgang Scheibe. Monolithic flat wing with 800 restaurant places, 7-storey bed block in 5-MP panel building with 430 beds, curtain wall with colored glass parapets. Image artist, design by Bernhard Heisig , Gisela Richter-Thiele.
3. ↑ Schulz / Müller / Schrödl, No. 41 “Complex Karl Marx University”, 1968–1975, architects Hermann Henselmann, Horst Siegel, Ambros G. Gross, Helmut Ullmann (urban development and basic architectural concept); Helmut Ullmann, Eberhard Göschel, Volker Sieg, Rudolf Skoda (project).
4. ↑ Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig: Builders and Buildings: from the Romanesque to the present . Tourist Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-350-00333-8 , p. 209 f, No. 180 Universität , here p. 210.
5. ^ Joachim Schulz, Wolfgang Müller and Erwin Schrödl: Architectural Guide GDR, Leipzig District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, 1976, p. 36
6. ^ Joachim Schulz, Wolfgang Müller and Erwin Schrödl: Architectural Guide GDR, Leipzig District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, 1976, p. 11.
7. ↑ Barth, p. 242.