Hermann Frede

Hermann Frede (born October 18, 1883 in Bochum , † March 20, 1965 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German architect .

Garden City on the Mühlrain (1913)

Hartmann brothers' printing ink factory in Ammendorf (1924)

Hotel Goldene Kugel in Halle (1929)

Town hall in Nachterstedt (around 1950)

Life

Hermann Frede, born as the oldest of nine miners' children, received his training as an architect at the building trade school in Münster . There, the first professional success in 1904 is the winning of 2nd place in a competition for a development plan with blocks of houses.

Frede had been married to Hulda Martha Porwoll from Münster since 1909 and had three children with her. In 1910 the family moved to Halle, where they also maintained a summer house from 1927 to 1939 in the neighborhood of Gustav Weidanz at Schwuchtstraße 13a in Kröllwitz .

In Halle, Frede initially worked as a salaried architect until he set up his own office in 1912. Perhaps he was encouraged to do so by the first prize for a competition design for the administration building of the State Insurance Company Saxony - Anhalt in Merseburg, on which he had worked in 1911 as an employee of the architect Otto Boecke, which, however, was submitted and awarded under Boecke's name. Fredes first big order as a freelance architect was the so-called "Garden City on Mühlrain". For the Bauverein für Kleinwohnungen e. G. Halle conceived residential complex was built between 1913 and 1919. In the First World War he was used as a pioneer .

In the 1920s he had up to 30 employees in his office. There were settlements, u. a. built in Bergwitz , Graefenhainichen , Gröbzig , Holzweißig near Bitterfeld and Wittenberg . One of his most important projects at this time is the construction of the administration building for the Central Agricultural Cooperative , for his competition design he received the first prize of 25,000 marks among 25 competitors.

In addition to administrative buildings, his repertoire also included industrial buildings and private residential and commercial buildings.

On Black Friday 1929 , Frede lost his credit at the Lehmann bank. After that, private clients stayed away for a long time. There were also significantly fewer architectural competitions. During this time, however, the Elektrizitätswerk Sachsen-Anhalt AG commissioned a number of switching stations and substations.

In 1937 he celebrated his 25th anniversary in business. On the occasion of this anniversary, City Planning Officer Wilhelm Jost wrote in a greeting to Hermann Frede:

"You have achieved a lot and beautiful things, would you like to stay with us for a long time in your fresh work as a creator of new buildings and as a valuable employee in the city administration."

Hermann Frede was a member of the municipal administration's art advisory board. 1933/1934 he was a member of the Association of German Architects as part of the DC circuit as a member of the Professional Association of Architecture within the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts .

During the Second World War he worked as a specialist in air raid shelters.

After the end of the war, Hermann Frede took a position as lead architect in the design office of Hochbau Halle / S. on. There was little room for maneuver there; the typification of the buildings increasingly limited the possibilities of individual planning, so that he became a freelance architect again. Although this activity was also limited to rebuilding and small private contracts, he did not put his thoughts on emigration into practice. On behalf of the city of Halle, he occasionally gave lectures to architecture students and young architects.

His last assignment in 1964/1965 was a rectory for the Elisabeth Hospital in Halle. But he could no longer carry out this project.

Works (incomplete)

as an employee in the architecture office of Otto Boelcke

• 1911: Participation in the competition design for the administration building of the State Insurance Institute Saxony-Anhalt in Merseburg (awarded the 1st prize of 5,000 marks)

as a freelance architect

• 1913–1915: "Gartenstadt am Mühlrain" for the Bauverein für Kleinwohnungen e. G. Halle in Halle (Saale)
• 1921–1925: Building of the cooperative bank in Halle (Saale), Maxim-Gorki-Straße 13
• 1921–1925: Administration building of the Central Genossenschaft for the purchase of agricultural commodities eGmbH in Halle (Saale), Maxim-Gorki-Straße 4
• 1922: Villa Walter Hartmann in Halle (Saale), Neuwerk 1–3 (with sculptures by Hannes Miehlich )
• 1922: Villa Erich Hartmann in Halle (Saale), Neuwerk 18
• 1923: Villa Brandenstein in Halle (Saale), Am Kirchtor 11
• 1924–1929: Hartmann brothers' printing ink factory, factory system with elevated tank for IG Farben in Halle-Ammendorf , Merseburger Straße 371 (with JC Moebius)
• around 1925: Residential and commercial building with office of the building association for small apartments in Halle (Saale), Dittenbergerstraße 7 / 7a,
• around 1926: Hoinkis butcher's shop in Halle (Saale), Leipziger Strasse 16
• 1926–1927: Villa in Halle (Saale), Albert-Schweitzer-Straße 51
• 1926–1929: Housing complex in Halle (Saale), Balkeweg 1–4
• 1926–1929: Housing complex in Halle (Saale), Beyschlagstrasse 10–13, 13a, 16–20
• 1926–1929: Housing complex in Halle (Saale), Pfännerhöhe 66–69
• before 1929: Administration building of the overland plant in Salzwedel
• before 1929: Administration building of the overland plant in Falkenberg
• before 1929: Conversion and extension of the Hotel Goldene Kugel in Halle (Saale), Riebeckplatz (destroyed in the war)
• 1929: Administration building in Halle (Saale), Philipp-Müller-Straße 57
• 1929: Administration building of the mine administration of IG Farben in Halle, Merseburger Straße 2
• 1935: Villa director Zick in Büschdorf
• 1938–1939: Administration building of the Knappschafts professional association (today part of the Bergmannstrost Clinic) in Halle (Saale)
• 1947–1948: Competition design for the redesign of the old town hall in Halle (Saale)
• Commercial building of the Gewerbe- und Handelsbank AG in Halle (Saale), Wilhelm-Külz-Strasse
• Interior design of the Methodist Church in Halle (Saale), Schulstrasse 9a
• Cinema in Merseburg
• Nachterstedt town hall
• Hollystrasse 7 residential building in Halle (Saale)
• Groups of houses in Wörmlitzer Strasse, Wörmlitzer Platz, Flurstrasse in Halle (Saale)
• Garden city in Brehna

literature

• Jens Lipsdorf : Hermann Frede. An architect from Halle between tradition and modernity 1883-1965. Friends of the Buildings and Art Monuments Saxony-Anhalt eV, Halle (Saale) 1998.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Frede  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community Foundation Halle
• Garden city on the Mühlrain

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 31, 1911, No. 99 (from December 9, 1911), p. 631. (Report on the competition result)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} List of monuments in Halle ( memento of the original from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Modern designs , issue 10/1925
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Wasmuthsmonthshefte für Baukunst , Heft 6/1929 ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Monument Database Central Germany