Hermann Hampe

Hermann Hampe (born June 1, 1904 in Heidelberg ; † February 13, 1970 in Heidelberg ) was a German architect who was known primarily for his church buildings as the head of the Protestant Church Building Office in Baden .

Life

Hampe was born as the eldest son of the historian Karl Hampe and his wife Charlotte Hampe. Rauff was born in Heidelberg. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and, after passing the main diploma examination, initially worked for the architect Georg Steinmetz in Berlin, where he worked on the first volume of his publication Basics for Building in City and Country . After his return to Heidelberg (1928), he gained his first experience in village church building as an employee of the architect Franz Sales Kuhn . Because of his critical stance towards the Nazi regime and the non- Aryan origin of his wife Annemarie Ebler, daughter of the chemist Erich Ebler , whom he married in 1933, Hampe was excluded from public contracts and opens his own architecture office with the help of private clients. In 1942 Otto Bartning took over the redesign of the church interior of the Heidelberg Heiliggeistkirche and founded the Bauhütte bei Heiliggeist with Hampe , which existed until 1948. When the Evangelical Church Building Office in Baden emerged from it after the end of the war, Hampe was appointed its first director, most recently with the title of senior church building officer . Hampe was involved in the development of Bartning's emergency church program. He also played a significant role in the construction of churches in Baden after the Second World War, both through new buildings and in the restoration of listed old churches. He published articles on questions of church reconstruction and was appointed to the working committee of the Protestant Church Building Day.

Hermann Hampe had been a member of the Heidelberg City Council ( CDU ) since 1946 and took part in issues relating to the renovation of the old town, city expansion and regional planning.

estate

Hampe's estate is in the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (SAAI) in Karlsruhe.

literature

• Obituary by Zoltán Tóth in: Das Münster , magazine for Christian art and art history , 23rd year 1970, p. 149 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the Heidelberg History Association with a photo of the tombstone of the married couple and their mother-in-law
2. ↑ Inventory of the SAAI