Laves plaque

The Laves plaque was for new buildings of post-war modernism in Hannover annual awards , which attracted attention beyond the borders of the state capital addition. The plaque was awarded by the Laves Society for Modern Architecture , founded in the early 1950s . One of the aims of this registered association for modern architecture was to "[...] interest the general public in building [and] bring architecture into discussion."

history

The building of the then Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs, built by Otto Hodler and awarded in 1954, on Hannah-Arendt-Platz in Hanover , opposite the Leineschloss ( location )

After the later state capital in the Second World War by the bombing of Hanover about 60 percent had lost their housing stock, the Hanover city building inspired Rudolf Hillebrecht already in the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany 1948, the construction of Community Hannover . However, when "[...] reactionary tendencies took effect" there, he initiated the founding of the Laves Society for Modern Architecture in 1953 . The namesake of the shareholders was Laves , "[...] the master builder of classicism [...] to whom the city owes plans and buildings from its first courtly heyday".

The association was entered in the register of associations at the Hanover District Court under the commercial register number VR 2173 Hanover , the members elected Hermann Deckert as the first chairman . Already on October 8th of the same year, the company honored the city councilor Hillebrecht with the award of the first Laves plaque .

Award winners

• 1953: Rudolf Hillebrecht
• 1954:
  • Otto Hodler for the construction of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs including the plaza
  • Paul Wolters for
    • the student residence at Lodyweg 1 ;
    • the cafeteria in Welfengarten , later converted into the - listed - Theodor Lessing House ;
  • Gerd Lichtenhahn in association with Ernst Friedrich Brockmann for the construction of the Europahalle on the Hanover exhibition grounds
• Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer

Archival material

Archives about the Laves Society can be found, for example

• in the historical archive of the city of Cologne in the estate of the architect Wilhelm Riphahn with the subtitle “Hanover, Laves Society, Competition; Correspondence, competition documents, minutes, newspaper clippings, 1953-1954 ”under the number (Order 1225) A 206

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1954 , in: Hannover Chronik , p. 234ff .; online through google books
2. ↑ ^{a b} Irene Zander: A master builder who builds with trees / Hanover: From three sides nature - a city with 212 communities - the extraordinary is in the banal , in: Die Zeit of March 27, 1964, especially p. 4; online at zeit.de
3. ↑ ^{a b} Carsten Urbanski (responsible): "Laves-Gesellschaft" / German company / company overview ( memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the compaly.com page in the version from January 26, 2016 
4. ^ Friedrich Lindau : Otto Hodler , in ders .: Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural historical identity , 2nd, revised edition, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2001, ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , p. 326; Preview over google books
5. ^ ^{A b c} Friedrich Lindau: Hanover. Reconstruction and Destruction ... , p. 340; Preview over google books
6. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Welfengarten 1A . In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 216
7. ↑ Uta Hassler , Silke Langenberg et al. : Kraemer, Friedrich Wilhelm in the architecture database architecture of the [19] 50s, 60s, 70s of the Technical University of Dortmund
8. ↑ Bettina Schmidt-Czaia (responsible): Riphahn, Wilhelm (Best. 1225) A 206 on the historischesarchivkoeln.de page in the version of January 26, 2016