Martin Hammitzsch

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Martin Heinrich Hammitzsch (born May 22, 1878 in Plauen near Dresden ; † May 12, 1945 near Oberwiesenthal ) was a German architect and local politician .

Life

Yenidze with the characteristic towers
House in the sun

Martin Hammitzsch was the son of the builder Heinrich Hammitzsch (1852-1910) and his wife Anna Hammitzsch born. Kohlsdorf (1854-1928). From 1894 to 1898 he studied at the Royal College of Chemnitz and then until 1901 at the Technical University of Dresden . He completed his studies as a graduate engineer in the field of architecture.

After a short time as an assistant to Cornelius Gurlitt had worked, he undertook numerous study trips and started in 1902 independently . The activity as a teacher of civil engineering at the Baugewerkschule in Nuremberg took Hammitzsch 1904 for his promotion to Dr.-Ing. with the topic The Development of Modern Theater Architecture . In 1905 he returned completely to Dresden, where he worked as a freelance architect until 1909. After the disputes about the industrial building in Europe he had planned and built entirely in reinforced concrete, the oriental tobacco and cigarette factory " Yenidze " in Dresden, he moved to Chemnitz , where in 1918 he was awarded the title of professor.

In the meantime, Hammitzsch took part in the First World War as a war volunteer in Pioneer Battalion 22 from August 1914 ; he was discharged from the army as a captain in January 1919. He was awarded the Iron Cross first and second class as well as the Knight's Cross first and second class of the Saxon Albrecht Order .

In 1920 he completely returned to Dresden. He lived in Oberlößnitz , now part of Radebeul , where he had owned the house in the sun since 1917 . Hammitzsch was from 1922 to 1933 for the German National People's Party (DNVP) a member of the municipality council of Oberlößnitz and from 1933 until the incorporation in Radebeul in 1934 on the municipality board.

In the 1920s he took over the management of the Dresden Building School and in 1935 became a member of the NSDAP . The following year he married Adolf Hitler's half-sister , Angela geb. Hitler, used Raubal (1883-1949). In 1937 he sold the house in the sun to the German Labor Front and moved to the Villa Comeniusstrasse 61 in Dresden . In 1938 he was appointed government director and head of the construction department in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior , where he was appointed Ministerialrat in 1939. Even before the outbreak of war, he was drafted as a reserve captain in the Wehrmacht , from which he was dismissed in 1943 with the rank of colonel in order to take over the management of the technology department of the Saxon state government. After the end of the war he committed suicide . His body was found on May 12, 1945 in the Oberwiesenthal state forest district not far from the Czechoslovak border. In the course of denazification in 1948, by a resolution of the SMAD , all of his assets were posthumously confiscated and transferred to public property.

Works

Buildings and designs

  • 1906/1907: Central school building with gym and public bathing establishment in Gröba near Riesa
  • 1907–1909: Yenidze cigarette factory in Dresden (due to its resemblance to a mosque, the main reason for its exclusion from a professional association)
  • 1909: five-story group building for small apartments in Dresden's old town
  • 1910: New manor house for the Riesa AG cotton spinning mill , Gröba manor near Riesa
  • 1910: Administration building for the Gröba Electricity Association in Gröba near Riesa
  • 1908 ?: Competition design for the Chemnitz Secondary School (not executed)
  • 1920/1921: Redesign of the house in the sun , Oberlößnitz, today Radebeul
  • War memorial (for the fallen of the First World War) in Eibenstock

as well as various villas and apartment buildings

Fonts

  • The development of modern theater architecture. Berlin 1906.
  • The modern theater building. 5 volumes, Berlin 1906.
  • Saxon State Building School Dresden. Dresden 1927.
  • 100 years of the Dresden State Building School. Dresden 1937.
  • State Building School - Building and Civil Engineering - Dresden 1837-1937. Memorandum for the centenary. Dresden 1937.

literature

  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Zdral : Die Hitlers: The unknown family of the leader . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2005, ISBN 3-593-37457-9 , p. 106 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - E-Book: ISBN 978-3-593-40101-0 ).
personal data
SURNAME Hammitzsch, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hammitzsch, Martin Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen near Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1945
Place of death near Oberwiesenthal