Jörn Walter

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Jörn Walter (born May 23, 1957 in Bremen ) is a German urban planner . From 1999 to 2017 he was the chief construction director of Hamburg and had a decisive influence on urban planning.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1976 in Frankfurt am Main and studying spatial planning at the University of Dortmund, Jörn Walter completed an urban development traineeship with the regional council and the state capital Düsseldorf from 1982 to 1984 . From 1985 to 1991 he was head of the office for urban development and the environment in Maintal , from 1991 to 1999 he was head of the city planning office in Dresden . He taught at the technical universities in Vienna (visiting professor) and Dresden (with teaching assignment).

From 1999 Jörn Walter was the successor to Egbert Kossak as chief construction director in Hamburg . The chief construction director is the highest technical officer in the city of Hamburg, and his term of office is nine years. To fill the position, Senator Willfried Maier had set up a six-person search committee that chose Walter from among twenty applicants. He was elected on December 15, 1998. In November 2016, Walter announced that he would not be available for a new term beyond March 2017. The then 60-year-old Walter would like the office to pass into younger hands. Walter left the service in March 2017, and was succeeded by Franz-Josef Höing .

Jörn Walter has also been an honorary professor at HafenCity University Hamburg since 2014 .

In addition to his professional career, Walter was also involved in the urban planning commission at the German Association of Cities , where he has been a member of the building committee since 1999. In 1994 he was appointed to the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning . In addition, he participated in the 1997 amendment to the Building Code . Since 2000 he has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Arts . Walter has been a member of the advisory board of the Federal Building Culture Foundation since 2012 .

Act

During his time in Dresden Jörn Walter drove next to the land use plan and the plans for the urban landscape space Ostragehege with the exhibition center as well as for Siemens - chip factory ahead.

In Hamburg, among other things, he is significantly involved in the planning of HafenCity , which is now largely under construction , including the Elbphilharmonie , for which he strongly advocated. Here, however, there was some criticism of the “interchangeability” of the architecture, which Walter rejected.

Despite the change of government at the end of 2001 to a coalition of CDU , FDP and Schill party - the latter providing the building senator with Mario Mettbach - he remained in office as he did under the sole CDU government from 2004. The focus of his work is, among other things, the Elbe island Wilhelmsburg , where the International Garden Show and the International Building Exhibition took place after the successful application under the black-green government in 2013 . For this purpose, the concept “Leap across the Elbe” was designed under his aegis, with which the Hamburg city center is to be linked in an urban planning manner with the south of the Hanseatic city. There is also an increasing number of residential buildings being planned and implemented there.

Jörn Walter was one of the supporters of the Europa Passage, which has now opened . Another important project that has now been implemented was the redesign of the Spielbudenplatz near the Reeperbahn . Here Walter initially advocated the partly publicly criticized and ultimately unrealized design by the American artist Jeff Koons . Ultimately, a concept with two stages, also selected by Walter, was implemented here.

Walter also spoke out in favor of moving the central library of Hamburg's public library to a new building on Domplatz. This concept was not implemented, officially for financial reasons. However, there was also public criticism of the construction project. In 2009, Jörn Walter campaigned, among other things, on city television Hamburg 1 for the University of Hamburg to move to Kleiner Grasbrook , which has now been withdrawn in favor of a large-scale renovation at the previous location in the Grindelviertel .

Awards

Fonts

  • together with Peter Emmerich, Annette Friedrich: urban planning framework, large Ostragehege and surroundings. Documentation for the city council resolution . City of Dresden, City Planning Office 1998
  • Plans Projects Buildings Hamburg. Architecture and urban development in Hamburg 2005 to 2015 , ISBN 3-935455-99-2
  • The master plan for HafenCity , in: Architektur in Hamburg , Junius-Verlag, Hamburg 2000.
  • Public space by the water , in: Wasser in der Stadt. Perspectives of a new urbanity , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88747-153-9 .
  • With Josef Hoormann, Engelbert Lütke-Daldrup: International trade and regional employment effects , Dortmund 1983.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg needs a new senior construction director. (HTTPS) In: ndr.de. November 30, 2016, accessed November 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Advisory Board . Website of the Federal Building Culture Foundation. Retrieved August 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2007/01/05/663451.html
  4. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2004/06/09/304770.html
  5. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2007/04/05/719265.html
  6. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2004/12/15/376496.html
  7. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2005/02/09/396774.html
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2003/05/02/155351.html
  10. ↑ kunst-fuer-den-spielbudenplatz.de ( Memento from March 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2004/12/08/373818.html
  12. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2006/12/22/657617.html
  13. ↑ Press release of the Hamburg Authority for Urban Development and Housing , accessed on December 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Jörn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German city planner
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen