Hermann Heuss

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Hermann Heuss (born October 9, 1882 in Brackenheim ; † September 20, 1959 ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Hermann Heuss grew up in Brackenheim, his brother was Theodor Heuss . When he was seven years old, the family moved to Heilbronn due to a transfer of his father Ludwig Heuss .

Hermann Heuss studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart and at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . During his studies in Stuttgart he joined the Alemannia Stuttgart fraternity in 1902 , of which he was a member until 1935. In 1912 he passed the second state examination and then worked as a government master builder ( assessor ) in the state building administration. During the First World War he worked at Krupp AG in Essen . In 1923, he was with a work on the castle and city building history of the former Hohenlohe residences at the Technical University of Stuttgart doctorate .

From 1919 he taught at the State Academy of Technology Chemnitz specialist construction . After the Second World War he became head of the successor institution, the Chemnitz Civil Engineering School . But since his brother Theodor Heuss was chairman of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany and was elected Federal President in September 1949 , the organs in the Soviet Zone began to monitor Hermann Heuss. In the same year he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and founded an architecture office in Stuttgart-Degerloch .

Hermann Heuss died in 1959 after a car accident.

buildings

  • Landhaus Müller-Isenburg, Chemnitz

Fonts

  • Architecture and nature, two kinds of will to form. In: Die Form, Vol. 3, 1928, pp. 88–90 ( digitized version ).
  • Contemplative city trips. Saxony-Thuringia. Berlin 1932.
  • Hohenloher Baroque and Braid. (Dissertation) Öhringen 1937.

literature

  • Isolde Döbele-Cariesso: In the shadow of the famous brother. In: Heilbronn voice from October 9, 2007 ( online )
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 329-330.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte : Fraternity members regular role. Berlin 1934, p. 196.
  2. ↑ Fig. In: Die Form, Vol. 3, 1928, p. 89 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Heuss, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Brackenheim
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1959