Hermann Hähnel

Hermann Hähnel (also Hänel , born March  29, 1830 in Herzberg ; † November 14, 1894 in Berlin ) was a German master mason, building contractor and architect .

He received his practical training and drawing lessons in Jüterbog . In 1847/1848 he attended the trade institute and then received further training at the Royal Academy of Arts . From 1849 he was employed in various architecture studios for two years. Hähnel went to Merseburg as a master mason in 1851 and then continued to study at the Berlin Building Academy from 1853 . There he passed his exams and worked as a site manager from 1854 . On June 7, 1856, Hähnel was in the architects' association in Berlin . From 1859 to 1865 he was one of Eduard Knoblauch's employees and worked on the New Synagogue on Oranienburger Strasse . In 1866 he started his own business as an architect.

Hähnel was one of the founders and a member of the supervisory board and director of the Land Acquisition and Building Association on Actien , which created the colony and later community of Friedenau from 1871 . His wife Auguste is said to have suggested the name "Friedenau" for the new location in memory of the Frankfurt peace treaty of 1871, which was officially confirmed on July 16, 1872.

Hähnel's grave is in the cemetery on Stubenrauchstrasse . The Hähnelstrasse in Berlin-Friedenau is named after him.

literature

• Gudrun Blankenburg: Friedenau. Artist location and residential idyll. The history of a Berlin district. Frieling, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8280-2350-9 . (with register and attached monument map)
• Hermann Ebling: Friedenau. From the life of a rural community 1871–1924. Zinsmeister and Grass, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3980130908 .
• Hermann Ebling, Evelyn Weissberg: Friedenau tells. Stories from a Berlin suburb. 1871 to 1914. Edition Friedenauer Brücke, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811242-1-7 .