Herbert Boehm

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Herbert Boehm (born August 24, 1894 in Dorpat ; † November 6, 1954 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German architect , town planner and construction officer . He mainly worked in Breslau and Frankfurt.

Life

Boehm studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt with Friedrich Pützer , at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg with German Bestelmeyer and at the Technische Hogeschool van Delft .

After the First World War he went to Breslau, where in 1921 his long-term collaboration with Ernst May began in the Silesian regional company . When May 1925 was appointed city planning officer to Frankfurt am Main, Boehm followed him and became head of the city planning department there. Together they drew up the general development plan for the city until 1928 and planned the individual settlements of the " New Frankfurt ". After May left, he kept the supervision of the urban land-use planning and worked on the preparation of the old town renovation .

In the autumn of 1936 Boehm returned to Breslau, where he worked as head of the urban expansion office and senior building officer under the town planning officer for urban planning Günther Trauer, drawing up development plans, especially for the building blocks of the old town. Furthermore, he planned public buildings and worked a. a. together with Rudolf Stein and Richard Konwiarz . From 1941 until the end of the Second World War he was the town planning officer (Baudezernent) in the northern Polish city of Gdynia , which was incorporated into the " Third Reich " and renamed Gotenhafen .

In 1945 Boehm fled from Gotenhafen to Frankfurt am Main before the advancing Red Army , where he initially worked as a freelance architect. In 1947 he returned to the city service as a construction clerk and deputy to the construction director Werner Hebebrand . On October 1, 1949, Boehm succeeded Hebebrands as construction director and head of the city planning office and remained in office until his death in 1954.

A street in Frankfurt-Niederrad was named after Herbert Boehm .

Work (selection)

  • 1922: urban development competition design for Greater Breslau, motto "Trabanten" (in collaboration with Ernst May)
  • 1926–1929: Praunheim settlement , Frankfurt (in collaboration with Ernst May et al.)
  • 1929–1931: Westhausen settlement , Frankfurt (in collaboration with Ernst May et al.)
  • 1936–1945: Military hospital in Breslau (now a military hospital on Rudolfa Weigla Street )
  • 1938: General development plan for the capital Wroclaw (in cooperation with Günther Trauer)
  • 1940: Draft for the conversion of the Schloßplatz and the middle Schweidnitzer Straße in Breslau into a cultural forum
  • after 1945: Heilsberg settlement , Bad Vilbel
  • 1948–1953: large areas of the Frankfurter Berg housing estate , Frankfurt (in collaboration with Johannes Krahn )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b G.A. Place : The architecture of the latest time . tape  2 . Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-7861-2304-7 , p. 597 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Siegrid Mayer zu Knolle: The tamed vertical. Materials on early high-rise construction in Frankfurt (dissertation). (PDF; 1.6 MB) (No longer available online.) 1998, p. 185 , archived from the original on June 12, 2007 ; Retrieved June 8, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de
  3. ^ A b Martin Wentz: Hans Kampffmeyer: Planning Department in Frankfurt am Main, 1956–1972 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-593-36469-7 , p. 142 .
  4. ↑ a b Overview of holdings in the “Collections” department BOEHM, Herbert. (No longer available online.) In: Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main. Archived from the original on July 20, 2012 ; Retrieved June 6, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de
  5. ↑ Janusz Dobesz: Wrocławska architektura spod znaku swastyki na tle budownictwa III Rzeszy . Oficyna Wydawnicza PWr, Wrocław 2005, ISBN 83-7085-911-9 , p. 56-57 (Polish).
  6. ↑ Ibidem. Pp. 28-31.
personal data
SURNAME Boehm, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohm, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, town planner and building officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Tartu
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1954
Place of death Frankfurt am Main