Horst von Bassewitz

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Horst Barthold Ludwig Ferdinand Heinrich Joachim Johannes Hermann von Bassewitz (born January 9, 1932 in Ludwigslust ) is a German architect .

family

Horst von Bassewitz comes from the old Mecklenburg noble family Bassewitz and was the son of Colonel a. D. and Kaufmanns Barthold von Bassewitz (1902–1992) and Hedwig Schröder (1903–1966).

He married Renate von Bonin on May 6, 1961 in Braunschweig (* March 23, 1935 in Pyritz (West Pomerania), died December 20, 2001), the daughter of the agricultural ring leader and landowner Henning von Bonin, master of the Augustenhof estate near Pyritz, and of Annemarie von Beyme (Sielinko house).

Life

Horst von Bassewitz studied from 1953 to 1959 at the Technical University of Braunschweig and, after graduating as a qualified engineer , became an employee, later assistant to the chair of his professor Dieter Oesterlen .

Since 1965 he worked in the Kiel architectural office Schnittger , from 1967 to 1974 together with Carl-Friedrich Fischer in Hamburg in the office " Fischer-Bassewitz ".

From 1974 von Bassewitz worked in the office of “ von Schramm, Pempelfort and Hupertz ”. However, the name and composition of the office changed several times. In 1989, Heiner Limbrock , an employee since 1986, became the office's new partner. After Jost Schramm's withdrawal , the office operated in the legal form of a GmbH as "BHL - von Bassewitz, Hupertz, Limbrock" . In 2003 Horst von Bassewitz and Stephan Hupertz withdrew from the office, which is now called " bhl Architekten von Bassewitz, Limbrock und Partner GmbH ". Heiner Limbrock is the sole managing director.

However, Bassewitz did not remain in retirement: On January 1, 2006, he founded the B&Z Architects office with Anna Katharina Zülch . This office focuses on the renovation of old buildings and monument protection.

Bassewitz is a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg , the building committee of the North Elbian regional church , the German National Committee for Monument Protection , the Association of German Architects and the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning . He was chairman of the scientific commission of the German Foundation for Monument Protection .

Works

Together with Carl Friedrich Fischer (" Fischer-Bassewitz " office):

Astra tower
  • Astra tower for the Bavaria brewery ( Astra beer ) in Hamburg-St. Pauli . A skyscraper standing on a thin base. Should be rebuilt in 2005 as part of the redesign of the brewery site, but it was demolished because a sluice underneath would allegedly not withstand the loads.
  • 1974: “Hexenberg” residential complex between Hamburg-Altona and St. Pauli together with the “ Werner Kallmorgen ” office. Award " Exemplary Buildings " from the Hamburg building authorities.
  • Numerous administrative, school and residential buildings, mostly in Hamburg.
  • 1971: Hotel Intercontinental in Hamburg together with " Matthaei & Elscher " and " Hartwig & Ott "

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Award for Horst von Bassewitz . In: Monumente , vol. 26 (2016), issue 3, p. 64.
  2. ↑ Attorney of the monuments distinguished , in: Monuments , edition 1/2020, page 42.
personal data
SURNAME Bassewitz, Horst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bassewitz, Horst Barthold Ludwig Ferdinand Heinrich Joachim Johannes Hermann von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigslust