Joseph Tiedemann

Joseph Tiedemann (born June 24, 1884 in Ehrenfeld , † February 5, 1959 in Darmstadt ) was a German architect , university professor and monument conservator .

Life

Joseph Tiedemann was born in 1884 as the son of master tailor Friedrich Tiedemann in Ehrenfeld, which today belongs to Cologne . From 1902 to 1904 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . After his studies, he first settled in Dresden as a freelance architect. He first received supraregional attention for his 1912 competition design for the new town hall in Döbeln, Saxony .

From 1920 to 1933 Tiedemann worked as a freelance architect in Berlin . At times he worked in the “Klein und Tiedemann” office. The Holländerhof is one of his best-known building projects . This was built between 1925 and 1929 on behalf of the Pankower Heimstätten-Gesellschaft . The three-story, four-story block of flats made of red clinker bricks at the transition points to the older development is oriented around a park-like courtyard with approx. 9,000 m². The Holländerhof stands for the conservative architectural language of the 1920s in Berlin. The stepped gables with crenellated ends are strongly reminiscent of the Dutch building tradition of the 17th and 18th centuries.

In 1927 he took part in the competition for the extension of the Reichstag building in Berlin. Although his design received a prize and was also noticed in specialist literature, it was not shortlisted. In 1930, Josef Tiedemann submitted a proposal for the redesign of the Berlin pleasure garden to become a realm of monument in the then well-known magazine Städtebau / Bauppolitik. However, like other proposals, this was not implemented.

On November 1, 1933, he was appointed as the successor to Paul Meissner, who had been pushed out of office, as full professor of architecture II at the Technical University of Darmstadt . In the course of the appointment procedure, the appointment committee placed particular emphasis on emphasizing that “the architect proposed in the first place is open to the new era and the bearer of a traditional architecture concept…” (Hanel 2013, p. 156). Tiedemann was dean of the department or faculty for architecture from 1940 to 1944.

After the end of the Second World War, Joseph Tiedemann got involved in the discussion about the reconstruction of the destroyed German cities. Among other things, in 1947 he submitted a general development plan for the heavily destroyed Darmstadt. However, his influence was comparatively small and he could not make himself heard against his much more important colleagues Karl Gruber , Ernst Neufert or Theo Pabst , even within the Darmstadt Faculty of Architecture .

Tiedemann retired in 1949 at the age of 65 . He died ten years later in Darmstadt. His estate is in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich .

Joseph Tiedemann had been married to Lilli Fischer since 1920.

Publications

• A new proposal for the Reich Memorial. In: Urban development / building policy , 4th year 1930, p. 585.

Buildings and designs

Town hall in Döbeln

• 1912–1914: New Town Hall in Döbeln (joint competition design with Josef Schöffler won 1st prize in 1912)
• 1925–1929: Holländerhof residential development on the Woelckpromenade in Berlin-Weißensee
• 1927: Competition design for the extension of the Reichstag building in Berlin (award-winning)
• 1927–1928: Residential development Achtermannstrasse 38–48 in Berlin-Pankow
• 1929: Competition design for a hotel in Barmen (awarded 1st prize)
• 1950: Competition design for Luisenplatz in Darmstadt (awarded 1st prize)

literature

• Melanie Hanel: The Technical University of Darmstadt in the “Third Reich”. Dissertation, Technical University of Darmstadt, 2013.
• Christa Wolf, Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1977, p. 207.
• One hundred years of Darmstadt University of Technology. The Technical University of Darmstadt 1836–1936. Darmstadt 1936, pp. 50-69.