Hermann Bartels (architect)

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Hermann Bartels (born April 14, 1900 in Minden ; † January 13, 1989 in Essen ) was a German architect who was entrusted with important construction projects by the NSDAP and the Nazi state.

The Wewelsburg.

Life

In 1933, at that time Bartels was already the district custodian and head of the NSDAP ( membership number 1.322.590), he was appointed by Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler as the lead architect for the planned conversion of the Wewelsburg into an SS castle. In 1939 Bartels presented a first draft and expanded the plans by 1944 to include numerous other projects that provided for a complete redesign of the village of Wewelsburg and the relocation of some of the residents. Since 1939, concentration camp prisoners were used for the construction work, for which a branch of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was initially set up as a local camp , from which the Niederhagen concentration camp then emerged . The prisoners were also used in the construction of the so-called driver's house 1, a representative villa that Bartels used as his home.

In 1938 Bartels and his former classmate Felix Gantführer (1902-1984), who later became the architect of the Ruhrfestspielhaus in Recklinghausen, won the Lippe state government's tender for a memorial on the Hiddeser Berg near Detmold to commemorate Adolf Hitler's election victory and the NSDAP should be established in the Lippe region. The decision in favor of the “Volkshalle” designed by the two award winners, which could hold 10,000 people and form the core of an even more extensive facility, was made by a jury made up of Albert Speer and Gauleiter Alfred Meyer . Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and the head of the Reich Organization of the NSDAP, Robert Ley , gave their consent to this decision .

Bartels was also entrusted with the planning work for the redesign of the city of Münster and the party buildings to be created when Münster was declared a "redesign city" in 1939 and was to be redesigned as a district capital in the sense of the NSDAP.

On June 21, 1942, Hermann Bartels was promoted to SS-Standartenführer (membership number 293.737).

literature

  • Karl Hüser (with the help of Wulf-E. Brebeck): Wewelsburg 1933 to 1945. Cult and terror site of the SS. Documentation. 2., revised. Ed., Verlag Bonifatius Druckerei, Paderborn 1987 (= series of publications of the district museum Wewelsburg, 1), ISBN 3-87088-534-3
  • Theodor Helmert-Corvey: Architecture and urban development in the service of National Socialism. The planned state and party buildings on the Hiddeser Berg near Detmold. In: Lippische Mitteilungen aus Geschichte und Landeskunde 53 (1984), pp. 113-133.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Bergenthal : The large buildings on the Hiddeser Berg near Detmold . In: Heimat und Reich , born 1938, pp. 347–350.
  2. ↑ http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/biografie/lista5/lista5.html
personal data
SURNAME Bartels, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1989
Place of death eat