Jan Wilhelm Prendel

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Jan Wilhelm Prendel (around 1980)

Jan Wilhelm Prendel (born October 3, 1905 in Holtensen , Göttingen district, † December 1, 1992 in Hanover ) was a German architect and construction clerk . Prendel worked in the building administration of Lower Saxony, but also left behind some formative buildings as a freelance architect.

Life

Jan Wilhelm Prendel was born in Holtensen near Göttingen in 1905 as the son of a railroad worker. After graduating from high school in Hanover and doing an internship as a bricklayer, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover , which he graduated with a degree in 1929 "with distinction". He also passed the Great State Examination in 1934 with distinction and was appointed to the position of government master builder ( Assessor ) in the service of the Prussian state building administration. Oldenburg, Berlin and Zichenau (today Polish: Ciechanów ) were further stations of his professional activity. After serving in the war and as a prisoner of war , he began working for the Lower Saxony building administration in 1946. In 1951 he became a consultant for the buildings of the Ministry of Culture and Social Affairs in the building construction department of the Ministry of Finance. In 1970 he retired with the rank of Senior Ministerial Counselor. Prendel lived in Hanover until his death in 1992.

Professional activity and buildings

The universities and colleges of Lower Saxony were subject to his structural supervision, as were the state libraries, the state theaters, health authorities and state hospitals. During this time, numerous buildings designed by him in whole or in parts were built, which still shape the respective cityscape today. So z. B. the (former) Pedagogical University in Oldenburg, the Wolfenbüttel State Archives , the (former) Horticultural University in Hanover (today part of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover , located opposite the Great Garden in Herrenhausen ) and last but not least from 1962 to 1970 the Hannover Medical School , which in large parts bears its structural signature. In particular, the implementation of the new principles in hospital construction in Germany at the time based on the US model of a hospital working according to rational and economic principles in structural structures is thanks to Prendel. In 1971 he was therefore given honorary citizenship by the Medical School .

For many years, Prendel was the representative of the State of Lower Saxony on the examination board for the structural engineering discipline at the Higher Technical Administrative Service in Frankfurt am Main.

In addition to his work as a construction clerk for the state of Lower Saxony, Jan Wilhelm Prendel also worked as a freelance architect and for non-governmental institutions, including the Evangelical Church in Hanover . In particular, the building of the regional church office in Hanover is his work, but also z. B. Seat and office of the regional bishop in Hanover.

Particularly noteworthy in this context are his activities in the Lower Saxon town of Loccum near the Steinhuder Sea . Prendel worked here for many decades, from 1952 until his death at the Loccum monastery located there, and carried out numerous conversions and additions that enable use as a seminar center as well as monastic life to this day. He did this on a voluntary basis, which is why the abbot and the convent awarded him the title of master builder.

At the same time he designed and built the Evangelical Academy located on the monastery grounds . Construction began in 1952 and has been expanded to the present day. Up until his death, Prendel not only designed all of the academy's buildings and supervised their construction, but the affiliated religious education institute also came from his design .

The most important achievement by Jan Wilhelm Prendel is probably the reconstruction of the great early Romanesque basilica of St. Michaelis in Hildesheim after the Second World War. Prendel, at that time senior building officer in the Hanover regional council, was given the "overhead management for reconstruction" in 1948, which he held until the work was finally completed and the inauguration in 1960. The reconstruction of this important church, unique in Germany, is considered to be one of the most successful examples of recreating the appearance of a building at the time it was built, from today's perspective and with today's means. St. Michael was one of the first buildings in Germany to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985 .

More buildings

Fonts

  • Expansion or new building of the Göttingen University. In: Die Deutsche Universitätszeitung , 12/1962.
  • Hannover Medical School. In: Die Bauverwaltung , 8/1972.

literature

  • Manfred Overesch: St. Michaelis. The world cultural heritage in Hildesheim. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2002, ISBN 3-7954-1509-8 .
  • Michael Reineking: Building development of the Evangelical Academy Loccum 1951 to 1996. Church administration office Loccum, Loccum o. J.
  • Fritz Erich Anhelm u. a .: A room of silence. The chapel in the Loccumer Academy. Loccumer Institute, Loccum 1995.
  • Hannover Medical School, Info 10/85, MHH press office
  • Ernst A. Runge: Be a civil servant, stay an architect. A conversation with Ministerialrat a. D. Prendel. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 12, 1970.
  • Leo Meister: "... created a democratic building". Jan W. Prendel said goodbye as Academy Builder. In: forum loccum ( ISSN  0724-9780 ), 3/1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Frenzel: The MHH model on the test bench in the USA. In: MHH-Info , 12/1988, p. 18 f.
  2. ↑ http://www.oberpruefungsamt.de
  3. ↑ Lower Saxony Ministry of Finance, Department 6, quoted from: Die Bauverwaltung , 1/1993, p. 93.
  4. ^ Knocke-Thielen: Hanover. Art and culture lexicon. zu Klampen, 1994-2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 188.
  5. ↑ Werner Durth , Niels Gutschow : Architecture and Urban Development of the Fifties (= series of publications of the German National Committee for Monument Protection , Volume 33), ed. from the German National Committee for Monument Protection, 1st edition, Bonn: German National Committee for Monument Protection c / o Federal Minister of the Interior, 1987, ISBN 978-3-922153-04-7 and ISBN 3-922153-04-6 , p. 42
personal data
SURNAME Prendel, Jan Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prendel, Jan W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer for the state of Lower Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Holtensen , Göttingen district
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 1992
Place of death Hanover