Martin Haller (architect)

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Architects: Martin Haller, Wilhelm Hauers , Wilhelm Emil Meerwein

Martin Emil Ferdinand Haller (born December 1, 1835 in Hamburg ; † October 25, 1925 there ) was a German architect . He played a key role in the construction of the Hamburg City Hall and had a lasting impact on the Hamburg cityscape before the First World War with numerous representative villas, office buildings and public buildings.

Life

Martin Haller was born in 1835 as the son of the lawyer and later Hamburg mayor Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller . He attended the Johanneum's school of scholars and became interested in construction and architecture from an early age. As a schoolboy, he took part in the competition to build a new town hall in 1854 after the previous building fell victim to the Hamburg fire of 1842.

In 1855 Haller began studying at the Berlin Building Academy and in 1858 switched to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris . In 1861 he returned to Hamburg and initially worked for Auguste de Meuron before setting up his own office in 1867. From 1872 to 1883 he worked with the architect Leopold Lamprecht , and from 1898 to 1914 there was a partnership with the architect Hermann Geissler .

Together with Lamprecht and the architects Johannes Grotjan , Bernhard Hanssen , Wilhelm Hauers , Wilhelm Meerwein , Henry Robertson , Hugo Stammann and Gustav Zinnow , Haller founded the so-called Rathausbaumeisterbund in 1880 , which, after decades of unsuccessful planning, worked out a design for the new building of the Hamburg town hall and from 1886 also carried out jointly until 1897.

Haller's contribution to the development of modern office building is considered to be groundbreaking for the history of architecture, in particular the Dovenhof office building that he built for Heinrich Ohlendorff in 1885/86 is the prototype of all later office buildings. Traditionally in the exterior design, his office buildings had a modern interior design: with a few load-bearing interior walls, their floor plans could be changed and equipped with paternoster lifts , pneumatic post systems, electric lights and central heating.

Tomb at the Ohlsdorf cemetery

In addition to a few public buildings (Dammtortheater, Laeiszhalle ), Haller mainly built numerous classicist villas for private clients, some of which are still externally preserved in Harvestehude . Among other things, the US Consulate General on the Alster goes back to two villas designed by him.

Haller was 1876-1884 chairman of the Architects and Engineers Association of Hamburg and 1885-1900 member of the Hamburg parliament . He was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

Haller was married to Antonie Schramm (1846–1925) since 1865; from this marriage a son (* 1871) and three daughters (* 1866, 1869 and 1881) were born.

Haller's grave is in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , location W22.

Honors

Buildings (selection)

The catalog raisonné comprises 560 entries. Only a part of it can be put together here:

  • 1861: Conversion of the Quassel manor house
  • 1863: Design of the international agricultural exhibition on the Heiligengeistfeld in Hamburg
  • 1865: Villa for Dr. Bielenberg in Hamburg, Harvestehuder Weg 44 (rebuilt and expanded in 1901 for consul Gustav Müller, later the seat of the Anglo-German Club )
  • 1865/1883: New construction and reconstruction of the main hall in the "Sagebiel'schen Etablissement" on the rotating track. After the Gürzenich in Cologne, this concert hall was the largest concert hall in Germany with 2200 seats and 4000 standing places. (not received)
  • 1866–1867: Villa Jaffé in Hamburg, Harvestehuder Weg 14 (changed)
  • 1871: Reconstruction of the Conventgarten concert hall in Fuhlentwiete (not preserved)
  • 1871: New construction of the Zülow mansion
  • 1871–1874: Commerzbank building on Neß
  • 1872–1874: Villa Ohlendorff in Hamm (not preserved)
  • 1873: Uhlenhorster ferry house in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst, on the Outer Alster (not preserved)
  • 1873–1874: Reconstruction of the city theater in Hamburg, Dammtorstraße (not preserved)
  • 1874: Alster pavilion in Hamburg, Jungfernstieg (3rd building, replaced by a new building in 1900)
  • 1874–1875: Stellahaus in Hamburg, Rödingsmarkt (increased in 1921)
  • 1881: Marien Hospital Hamburg
  • from 1882: Double villa Michaelsen / Rée in Hamburg, Alsterufer 27/28 (today American Consulate General in Hamburg , changed)
  • 1882–1884: Wiebendorf mansion on behalf of the Hamburg gas works tenant Carl Hermann Theodor Haase
  • 1882–1884: Deutsche Bank on Adolphsplatz / Alter Wall together with Hermann Geissler; further extension buildings until 1909
  • 1883–1884: Villa Gans, called “ Budge-Palais ” since 1900 , in Hamburg, Harvestehuder Weg
  • 1885–1886: Dovenhof office building in Hamburg, Brandstwiete (demolished in 1967)
  • 1887–1888: gymnasium of the Hamburg gymnastics association from 1816 in Hamburg-St. Georg, Große Allee (torn down in 1956)
  • from 1888: various new buildings and conversions on the Horner racecourse in Hamburg-Horn (not preserved)
  • 1888: Roggendorf manor
  • 1889: Country house in Wentorf , Am Mühlenteich 10, for the Hamburg ophthalmologist Karl Gustav Haase and 1897–1898 extension to a large villa. From 1935 to 1945: used as a home for babies and children by the National Socialist People's Welfare Association and from 1959 as a children's home for the city of Hamburg. After the acquisition by Roger Willemsen in 2015, it became the artist house “Villa Willemsen” in 2018 . 
  • 1890–1891: "Transporthaus" office building in Hamburg, Zippelhaus 4 (restored in 1993)
  • 1893–1894: Buildings on the Karlshorst trotting track in Berlin-Lichtenberg , Treskowallee (with Johannes Lange) (not preserved)
  • 1895–1896: Wedells House in Hamburg, Siegfried-Wedells-Platz 2 (formerly Neue Rabenstrasse 31)
  • 1896–1897: Hamburg City Hall , City Hall Market in the City Hall Builders Association
  • 1896–1898: Villa Wolde in Bremen , Osterdeich No. 64
  • 1897–1898: Laeiszhof in Hamburg, Trostbrücke 1 (with the assistance of Bernhard Hanssen and Emil Meerwein )
  • 1899: Dresdner Bank building in Hamburg, Jungfernstieg together with Hermann Geissler
  • 1900–1901: office building of the Woermann shipping company , called “ Afrikahaus ”, in Hamburg, on Große Reichenstrasse
  • 1900–1902: Bank building, formerly the Vereins- und Westbank, Alter Wall 20–22
  • 1901–1903: Hapag house in Hamburg, Ballindamm (rebuilt 1913/1919)
  • 1903–1904: "Haus Vaterland" in Hamburg
  • 1904–1908: Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Johannes-Brahms-Platz (together with Wilhelm Emil Meerwein )
  • 1905–1906: Riedemann Mausoleum in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf, in the main cemetery
  • 1907: Bankhaus Joh.Berenberg, Gossler & Co. in Hamburg, Adolphsplatz 5
  • 1907: Daniel Schutte pen
  • 1908–1909: office building of the shipping company Robert M. Sloman (" Slomanhaus ") in Hamburg, baumall 3 (rebuilt in 1921)
  • 1912–1913: MMWarburg & CO bank in Hamburg, Ferdinandstrasse / Alstertor; together with Hermann Geissler

such as:


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  • Claus Gossler (ed.): The memoirs of the Hamburg architect Martin Haller (1835-1925). Portrait of an upper-class epoch of the Hanseatic city (= contributions to the history of Hamburg. Vol. 68). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3495-3 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Martin Haller (architect)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hornbostel / Klemm (p. 250) erroneously stated "three sons and one daughter", but von Behr (p. 178) correctly gave the names and years of birth of the individual children.
  2. ↑ Royal Prussian Order List 1877 , First Part, Berlin undated, p. 841
  3. ^ In: Court and State Handbook for the Duchies of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha 1890 , Gotha undated, p. 84
  4. ^ Information from Claus Gossler
  5. ↑ cbs: cultural monument with history. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , November 13, 2010.
  6. ^ Matthias Wiemer: Roger Willemsen's villa is an artist house. In: Lübecker Nachrichten , December 22nd, 2018, with picture gallery.
personal data
SURNAME Haller, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haller, Martin Emil Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1925
Place of death Hamburg