Konrad Nonn

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Konrad Nonn (born November 26, 1877 in Landsberg an der Warthe ; † 20th century) was a German architect and Prussian construction clerk . He was a prominent critic of modernist architecture in Germany between the world wars and is one of the representatives of architecture under National Socialism .

Life

Konrad Nonn studied architecture in Berlin and Munich . In 1902 he entered the state building service as a government building manager , in 1907 he became a government building master . He had u. a. the construction management for the new building of the TH Breslau and for church buildings in Landsberg, Soldin and Friedeberg (Neumark) . On 26 November 1911 he was at the Technische Hochschule Hannover to Dr.-Ing. PhD. In 1913 he worked on the new prison building in Kleve and spent four months with the building maintenance commission of the city of Hamburg . In 1914 he was a civil engineering attaché at the German Consulate General in London. After participating in the First World War, he became head of the building construction department in Frankfurt / Oder and head of technical emergency aid in the Frankfurt administrative district. From 1921 he worked in the building construction department of the Prussian Ministry of Finance in Berlin and was editor of the Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung (until 1927). In 1927 he came to the government in Potsdam and was given overall management of the prison buildings in Brandenburg and the Forest Science Institute in Eberswalde . In January 1933 he was transferred to Allenstein for illegal political activity with the NSDAP , but after the National Socialists came to power in May 1933 he was able to return to the Prussian Building and Finance Directorate in Berlin as a senior government and building officer. Since the 22./27. September 1933 he was Ministerialrat in the building construction department of the Prussian Ministry of Finance. From 1934 he was again editor of the Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . From 1935 to 1945 he was a lecturer for economic policy foundations in urban planning at the Technical University of Berlin . From 1921 to 1927 he was co-editor of the journal “ Denkmalpflege und Heimatschutz” and from 1935 to May 1942 of the journal Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege .

Konrad Nonn was one of the most resolute critics of the Bauhaus and the architects' association Der Ring and has fought them vigorously and in some hateful manner since 1924 (“Baubolshevism”, “Cultural Bolshevism”; “dark relationships between the modernist new objectivity and the communitarian-Jewish party- and interest politics "). His attacks contributed to the dissolution of the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1932 and its closure in Berlin in 1933. In 1931 Konrad Nonn and Paul Schultze-Naumburg , Alexander von Senger , Eugen Hönig and German Bestelmeyer became a member of the newly founded Kampfbund Deutscher Architekten und Ingenieure (KDAI) im Combat League for German Culture .

Nonn was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 411.018) and the SS (membership number 383.749). In the SS, Nonn rose to SS- Sturmbannführer in 1941 . He was a corresponding member of the Archaeological Institute of the German Empire and 2nd chairman of the Koldewey Society .

buildings

Extension of the former Reich Ministry of the Interior on Dorotheenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte

Fonts (selection)

  • Christian Wilhelm Tischbein, painter and architect, 1751–1824 . Heitz, Strasbourg 1912 (= dissertation, digitized version ).
  • Wilhelm Dörpfeld on reaching the age of 80 . In: Koldewey Society (Hrsg.): Wilhelm Dörpfeld Festschrift for the 80th birthday . Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1933, pp. 9–15.
  • The technology in the National Socialist state, its cultural and legal bases in a historical representation (= The Administrative Academy. A manual for civil servants in the National Socialist state, volume 60). Industrieverlag Spaeth & Linde, Berlin 1938.

Attacks against the Bauhaus:

  • The State Bauhaus in Weimar . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 44, No. 6, February 6, 1924, pp. 42–44 ( digitized version ).
  • To the propaganda for the Bauhaus in Weimar . In: Deutsche Bauhütte April 21, 1924.
  • The State Bauhaus . In: Kölnische Zeitung April 23, 1924.
  • State garbage disposal. The state Bauhaus in Weimar . In: Deutsche Zeitung (Berlin) No. 178 of April 27, 1924.
  • A summary of the Weimar and Dessau “Bauhaus” . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 47, 1927, No. 10, pp. 105–110 ( digitized version ).
  • The breeding ground for culture decay. A cultural-educational consideration of the State Bauhaus in Weimar - Dessau . In: Süddeutsche Baugewerkszeitung June 20, 1928, No. 12, pp. 157–160.
  • Bolshevik architecture . In: Deutsche Zeitung April 21, 1929.
  • Homunculus architecture . In: Deutsche Bauhütte 34, 1930, p. 142.
  • Art Bolshevism in the Dessau Bauhaus In: The sun. Monthly for Nordic Weltanschauung and Lifestyle 7, 1940, pp. 460–469.

literature

  • Who is it . 10th edition 1935, pp. 1150-1151.
  • Barbara Miller-Lane: Architecture and Politics in Germany 1918–1945 . Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 3-528-08707-2 , pp. 88-89. 131-132.
  • Reinhold Zilch: The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 12, April 4, 1925 to May 10, 1938 (= Acta Borussica , New Series 1st row). Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-487-12704-0 , 2 p. 654 (curriculum vitae).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 27, 1907, p. 197 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 41, No. 35, 1921, p. 217 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Konrad Nonn in the Catalogus Professorum of the TU Berlin.
  4. ↑ German Art and Monument Preservation 1938, p. 23.
  5. ^ Völkischer Beobachter December 13, 1933.
  6. ^ Peter Hahn (ed.): Bauhaus Berlin: Dissauation Dessau 1932; Berlin closed in 1933; Bauhausler and Third Reich. A documentation . Kunstverlag Weingarten, Weingarten 1985, ISBN 3-8170-2002-3 .
  7. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 396.
  8. ↑ Archäologischer Anzeiger 1938, p. XXXI.
  9. ^ Helmut Weihsmann: Building under the swastika. Architecture of doom . Promedia, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85371-113-8 , pp. 443-444.
  10. ↑ H .: The Ministry of the Interior Unter den Linden in Berlin . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 58, 1938, No. 1, pp. 1–20; Matthias Donath: Architecture in Berlin 1933–1945. A city guide. Lukas, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936872-26-0 , pp. 59-60; Matthias Donath: Bunker, banks, Reich Chancellery. Architecture in Berlin 1933–1945. Lukas, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936872-51-1 , p. 22; today under monument protection (Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information ).
  11. ^ Katja Leiskau: The new building of the State Archive in Marburg 1935–1938 (= writings of the Hessian State Archive Marburg 12). Marburg 1999; Helmut Weihsmann: Building under the swastika. Architecture of doom . Promedia, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85371-113-8 , p. 58. 645.
personal data
SURNAME Nonn, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg on the Warta
DATE OF DEATH 20th century