Hermann Hussong

Colorful block in Kaiserslautern

Hermann Hussong (born September 20, 1881 in Blieskastel ; † September 16, 1960 in Heidelberg ) was a German architect and urban planner who worked primarily in Kaiserslautern and Heidelberg. From 1909 to 1933 he worked in the Kaiserslautern City Planning Department. He worked as an architect and town planner and has shaped the Kaiserslautern cityscape to this day with his numerous high-quality buildings.

After graduating from high school in Zweibrücken in 1900 , he began studying at the Technical University of Munich , graduating in 1905 with honors as a graduate engineer and government building manager. He returned to the Palatinate and worked on the new building of the sanatorium and nursing home in Homburg . In 1908 he was appointed to the Landbauamt Bamberg , where he designed the state basket weaving workshop in Lichtenfels and two canons' houses .

In 1909, Hussong joined the Kaiserslautern services as a town planning officer with responsibility for town planning and building construction . There he designed the forest cemetery in 1912, which became the model for similar facilities in Germany. In 1920 he was appointed senior building director. Until his forced retirement in 1933, he designed numerous new buildings in Kaiserslautern, the style of which ranges from expressionistically alienated baroque architecture to functionalism . Examples are the residential complex in Fischerstraße (1919 ff.), The “Colorful Quarter” in Königstraße / Marienstraße (1924–1925) and the rotunda (1928). Are u lost a. the exhibition grounds (1925, destroyed in the war) and the Protestant house (converted to the Pfalztheater after the war , demolished in 1999).

After 1945, Hussong worked as senior construction director in Heidelberg until 1952, where he died in 1960.

literature

• Daniela Christmann: Modernism in the Palatinate. Artistic contributions, artist associations and art funding in the twenties. Kehrer, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-933257-06-9 , pp. 98-117.
• Daniela Christmann, Britta E. Buhlmann (eds.): A new time is coming! Art and architecture of the twenties in the Palatinate. Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern 1999, ISBN 3-89422-102-X .
• Daniela Christmann: From pathos to objectivity. Hermann Hussong - Fischerstrasse and rotunda in Kaiserslautern. Two examples of residential construction in Kaiserslautern in the 1920s. In: Daniela Christmann (Ed.): RückSicht. Festschrift for Hans-Jürgen Imiela on February 5, 1997. Schmidt, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-87439-420-4 , pp. 199-212.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Hussong in the catalog of the German National Library