Hermann Wunderlich (architect)

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Hermann Wunderlich (born November 7, 1899 in Budweis , † October 29, 1981 in Cologne ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Hermann Wunderlich studied architecture from 1920 to 1925 at the German Technical University (TH) in Prague . From 1927 to 1930 he was assistant to Arthur Payr. He then worked as a freelance architect in Prague . In 1932 he received his doctorate at the Technical University of Prague with the thesis "On the urban redesign of Karlsbad ". From 1935 to 1945 Hermann Wunderlich was associate professor for town planning and settlement at the TH Prague. In 1945 he moved to Germany. From 1947 to 1966 he was the head and authorized signatory of the technical headquarters of Kaufhof AG in Cologne.

plant

After the Second World War, Hermann Wunderlich developed a new design language for the reconstruction of department stores , which not only did justice to the functional requirements, but also in the sense of a “ corporate identity ” of modern times. The aluminum / glass grid facade he developed and created in various shades of green for the department stores of Kaufhof AG has meanwhile been recognized as an important testimony of its time and has already been placed under monument protection in many cases. A total of over 40 conversions and reconstructions of Kaufhof buildings in German cities (including Darmstadt , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Freiburg , Hamburg , Hanau , Kassel , Krefeld , Ludwigshafen , Mülheim , Nuremberg , Saarbrücken , Wuppertal-Elberfeld ) can be traced back to him. But he was also active in urban development and in the conception of villa buildings (especially in Cologne-Marienburg ) - mostly in collaboration with Reinold Klüser .

Department store buildings in Cologne :

  • 1953/1954, Kämmergasse 39–41, Kaufhof administration building
  • 1956/57: Cäcilienstraße 2, Kaufhof AG department store extension
  • 1956/57: Cäcilienstraße 22, Kaufhof parking garage
  • 1958: Kalker Hauptstrasse 108–122, department store for Kaufhof AG

Department store buildings outside (selection):

  • 1952/53: Darmstadt, Rheinstrasse 2, department store for Kaufhof AG
  • 1954: Frankfurt, department store for Kaufhof AG at the Hauptwache
  • 1955: Kassel, Opernplatz, department store for Kaufhof AG
  • 1957: Hanau, Neustädter Markt, department store for Kaufhof AG
  • 1960: Ludwigshafen / Rhein, Bismarckstrasse 63, department store for Kaufhof AG
  • 1960: Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Bahnhofstrasse 82, department store conversion and extension for Kaufhof AG
  • 1962: Saarbrücken, Bahnhofstrasse 82, Passage department store for Kaufhof AG
  • 1962/63: Nuremberg, Königstrasse 42–52, department store for Kaufhof AG
  • 1962/63: Mülheim, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 35, department store extension and parking garage extension for Kaufhof AG
  • 1963/64: Wuppertal-Barmen, Alter Markt, department store and multi-storey car park for Kaufhof AG
  • 1966/67: Hamburg, Mönckebergstrasse 3, conversion of the office building of the wool wholesaler HA Klöpper into a branch of Kaufhof AG

literature

  • Robert Steimel: Cologne Heads , Cologne 1958
  • Wolfram Hagspiel: Cologne: Marienburg - Buildings and architects of a villa location , (Stadtspuren - Monuments in Cologne, Vol. 8, 2nd part), Cologne 1996
  • Ulrich Soenius, Jürgen Wilhelm: Kölner Personen Lexikon , Cologne 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Fußbroich, Dierk Holthausen: Profane Architektur nach 1900 , Cologne 1997, p. 388 and Fig. 085
  2. ↑ Ibid., Fig. 086
  3. ^ A department store, many stories Frankfurter Rundschau from September 12, 2008, accessed on August 23, 2012
  4. ↑ An old sin is now being erased . Koenigstrasse gets a new face, from: Nürnberger Nachrichten of July 8, 1961
  5. ^ To the department store in Mülheim , accessed on August 23, 2012
  6. ^ Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg: Architects, civil engineers, builders, property developers and their buildings in Wuppertal. Pies, Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-928441-52-3
  7. ^ Ralf Lange : Architekturführer Hamburg: Arachitercutral Guide to Hamburg . Edition Axel Menges, 1995, ISBN 3-930698-58-7 , p. 38 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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personal data
SURNAME Wonderful, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Ceske Budejovice
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1981
Place of death Cologne