Hermann Phleps

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Hermann Ludwig Phleps (born June 1, 1877 in Biertan , Romania ; † April 10, 1964 in Marburg ) was a German architect , art historian and university professor .

Life

He grew up in Transylvania as the second son of the district doctor Gustav Phleps and his wife Sofia. The later general of the Waffen-SS Artur Phleps was his younger brother. After attending secondary school in Sibiu , he studied architecture at the technical colleges in Vienna and Karlsruhe , where he was particularly influenced by Carl Schäfer and Friedrich Ratzel . After that he lived first in Berlin and later in Kassel . There he wrote his dissertation on the palaces Wilhelmsthal and Wilhelmshöhe .

In 1907 he became an assistant at the Technical University of Danzig , first got a teaching position on architectural form theory for civil engineers and in 1912 became an associate professor. In the 1920s he researched buildings of the German Order of Knights in Burzenland with the support of Friedrich Teutsch .

In 1936 he finally became a full professor in Gdansk for the field of "architecture and wood construction". He worked and published with Wilhelm Pinder and Heinrich Zillich . After the occupations of Romania and Norway in 1940, his research projects and trips were supported by Martin Rudolph , the head of the "Department for Germanic Construction" of the " Research Association of German Ahnenerbe ". Numerous lectures and publications on topics of architecture, the building trade, the preservation of monuments and the history of urban construction, which he illustrated extensively with his own pen sketches, made him known.

In 1945 he lost his chair and his personal documents during the evacuation of Danzig. He first moved to Stoltenberg in Holstein and after 1949 lived in Marburg . There he continued his journalistic activities.

Fonts

  • Two creations by Simon Louis du Ry from the palaces Wilhelmstal and Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel , Ernst, Berlin 1908
  • Space and form in architecture , O. Stilke Berlin approx. 1920
  • The ABC of ornamentation , G. Stilke, Berlin 1923
  • The ABC of colored exterior architecture , G. Stilke, Berlin 1926
  • On the trail of the first buildings of the German order of knights in Burzenland in Transylvania , Hackebeil, Berlin, 1927
  • The German Student House in Danzig , Deutsche Bauzeitung, Berlin 1928
  • Colored architecture among the Romans and in the Middle Ages , E. Wasmuth, Berlin 1930
  • The importance of the detail in architecture , Vincentz, Hannover 1933
  • East and West Germanic building culture with special appreciation of the rural architecture of Transylvania, Verl. Für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1934
  • Schmiedekunst , Verl. F. Art history, Berlin 1936
  • The construction of the house of the dead of a Gothic Gau prince in Pilgramsdorf near Neidenburg , Rabitzsch, Leipzig 1939
  • The ABC of ornamentation , Danziger Verlagsges., Danzig 1940
  • The rural defense architecture of the Transylvanian Saxons , in: Heinrich Zillich : Siebenbürgen und seine Wehrbauten, Langewiesche, Königstein 1941; from 1957 under the title "Transylvania. A Occidental Fate", last edition 1982 (= The Blue Books )
  • Timber architecture, block construction , Bruder, Karlsruhe 1942
  • On the essence of architecture , Bruder, Karlsruhe 1950
  • German half-timbered buildings , Langwiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1951, last edition 1962 (= The Blue Books )
  • The Norwegian stave churches , brother Karlsruhe 1958
  • Alemannic wood construction , F. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1967
  • The high gates in Transylvania in: Ostdeutsche Wissenschaft Vol. 6, Munich 1959 pp. 153–157

swell

  • Hermann Phleps: On the essence of architecture . Bruder, Karlsruhe 1950, pp. 4–5 and 71.
  • Robert Born: Between Transylvania and Norway, Hermann Phleps' research on wooden architecture and its political instrumentalization during National Socialism . In: Agnieszka Gasior, Magdalena Bushart, Alena Janatková: Art history in the occupied territories 1939–1945 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 9783412501686 , pp. 275–308.
  • Christian Norberg-Schulz : Our stave churches . In: Byggekunst . No. 3, Oslo 1961 (anniversary edition for the 50th anniversary of the Norwegian Architects' Association).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Local family book Agnetheln at genealogy.net
personal data
SURNAME Phleps, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Phleps, Hermann Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Biertan , Romania
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1964
Place of death Marburg