Ludwig Lemmer

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Berlin Interbau Kaiser Friedrich Memorial Church

Ludwig Lemmer (born August 9, 1891 in Remscheid ; † October 18, 1983 there ) was a German architect, professor of architecture and the first Senate building director of Berlin.

Life

family

Lemmer was born as Hermann Ludwig Lemmer, the son of the building contractor and architect Ernst Ludwig Alexander Lemmer and his wife Eugenie Adleheid Marcus. His brother was the Federal Minister Ernst Lemmer (1898–1970). On July 3, 1925, he married Charlotte Betty Zehles in Remscheid. Their son was the CDU politician Gerd Ludwig Lemmer (1925-2016)

Career

From 1911 to 1913 he attended the Technical University of Stuttgart as a guest student with Paul Bonatz . From 1913 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and worked in Wilhelm Kreis' private studio and had a private service contract as an architect for the management of the Great Exhibition Düsseldorf 1915 - From 100 Years of Art and Culture .

From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, including in 1914 in the 1914 Jäger Battalion of the Army in the campaign against Russia and in the battles for Verdun. He was awarded the Cross of Honor of the World War with Swords.

From May 1, 1919 he worked as an architect for the Baden-Baden city administration. He went on a study trip to Denmark and Sweden before he became a town planner in Remscheid from 1921 to 1933. In the period from 1921 to 1933, when he was active as a town planner and councilor, Ludwig Lemmer largely determined the urban and architectural development in Remscheid. He drew up a general settlement plan and concentrated mainly on residential construction (Bökerhöhe, Dicke Eiche, Neuenhof, Rosenhügeler Strasse and others). In 1933 he was dismissed from his office by the Nazis and then worked as a freelance architect. He was denied admission to the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts.

In 1934 he completed his studies at the Technical University of Hanover with an engineering degree and passed additional state exams in economics and geography. He then attended the University of Cologne , where he was admitted to the doctorate (dissertation project on the subject of "Possibilities and Limits of Industrial Relocation" with Bruno Kuske ), which he did not abandon as a result of the outbreak of the Second World War. In the interwar period he received the Hungarian War Medal with Swords and the Austrian War Medal with Swords.

From October 1940 to March 1941 he was head of the Cologne City Building Office . He was drafted into the Wehrmacht as head of a technical department in the OKH during World War II . From 1941 to 1942 he was in Belarus , France , Norway and Warsaw on behalf of Army Support Department 2. On July 15, 1944 he was transferred to the fortress pioneer staff 21 in France and moved to Bergheim with the fortress pioneer commander XIX in October of that year . He was awarded the War Merit Cross with Swords and Class 2 of the Iron Cross . Lemmer was taken prisoner by the British in April 1945 in Rheinberg and was released by the British Army on June 29, 1945.

After the end of the war he worked as a freelance architect and in 1946 was appointed an expert at the Bergische IHK . In 1948 he was accepted into the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning and was at the same time 2nd chairman of the Bergisch-Land district group of the BDA and a member of the executive working committee of the DWB of the Bergisch-Land group. During his time in the Bergisches Land he was also a member of the reallocation committee within the reallocation authority of Solingen and a member of the planning committee and the working committee of the planning committee of the city of Remscheid.

From 1950 to 1951 he had a part-time teaching position at the University of Fine Arts in West Berlin in the field of “Planning Basics in Urban Development”. In 1951, in recognition of his teaching activities, but also of other merits, he received the chair for architecture at the HBK, where he taught until 1955. From July 1, 1951 to September 1, 1956, he was also the first Berlin Senate Building Director . In 1956/1957 the Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche was built as part of Interbau . In 1958 he moved back to Remscheid with his family and received the Great Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on August 13, 1959 . He died in Remscheid in 1983 and was buried in the Reinshagen forest cemetery.

Honors

Memorial plaque in Handelallee 20 in Berlin's Hansaviertel
  • In 2015, Ludwig-Lemmer-Strasse in Remscheid was named after him.
  • In Berlin's Hansaviertel, a memorial plaque for IBA 57 at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche commemorates its builder.

Buildings (selection)

  • Neuenhof settlement in Remscheid (1925–1929)
  • Doctors' casino in Remscheid (1920s)
  • Small Flurstrasse settlement in Remscheid
  • Kaiser Friedrich Memorial Church (1957)
  • Parish hall of the Kaiser Friedrich Memorial Church (1957)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography - Lemmer, Ludwig. In: deutsche-biographie.de. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Hermann Ludwig Lemmer 1891–1983. In: datenpool.bvff.de. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  3. ^ German biography - Lemmer, Ernst. In: deutsche-biographie.de. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 1915: Large industrial, commercial and art exhibition - The exhibition Creative people. In: schaffendesvolk1937.de. Retrieved January 28, 2019 .
  5. ^ City of Remscheid - May 2012; former doctors' casino. In: remscheid.de. May 2012, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  6. ^ R. Keusch: Ludwig-Lemmer-Straße - after the former mayor - Remscheid. In: rga.de. January 13, 2015, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Neuenhof settlement - baukunst-nrw. In: baukunst-nrw.de. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ former doctor's residence in Remscheid - baukunst-nrw. In: baukunst-nrw.de. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  9. ^ BauNetz Media GmbH: Picture gallery for: Exhibition in Oldenburg / New Architecture! - Architecture and Architects - News / Messages / News. In: baunetz.de. November 5, 2013, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Andreas Weber: Which club celebrated big here? - Remscheid. In: rga.de. April 8, 2016, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Stark + Stilb Architects GbR: Händelallee parish hall - Projects - STARK + STILB ARCHITEKTEN BERLIN. In: starkundstilb-architekten-berlin.de. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lemmer, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lemmer, Hermann Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, first Berlin Senate Building Director
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1983
Place of death Remscheid