Martin Kremmer

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Shaft 12 of the Zollverein colliery in Essen

Martin Kremmer (born August 7, 1894 in Posen , † beginning of May 1945 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

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During his studies in 1915 he became a member of the Black Castle Association Eberstein Karlsruhe .

Together with his office partner Fritz Schupp, he is considered to be one of the most important architects of mining facilities in the German-speaking area of ​​the 20th century. However, he not only planned and built industrial buildings, but also B. also the Martin Luther Church in Berlin-Steglitz.

In December 1937, the architects Schupp and Kremmer, as well as the architects Emil Rudolf Mewes and Karl Kohlbecker , submitted a design for the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg . Finally, the architects were commissioned to carry out the construction together. Schupp and Kremmer were responsible for the planning and construction of the extensive social and leisure facilities. However, most of it did not come to fruition.

Schupp and Kremmer were among the representatives of the New Building . The mine designed by them for the Zeche Zollverein 12 was added to the list of world cultural heritage by UNESCO in December 2001 .

Martin Kremmer was killed in an air raid in World War II . The estate of the architectural office is now kept in the mining archive at the German Mining Museum .

literature

  • Wilhelm Busch: F. Schupp, M. Kremmer. Mining architecture 1919–1974. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7927-0568-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth after entry of Martin Kremmer in the historical register of architects “archthek” , accessed on July 17, 2010
  2. ↑ Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 207 .
  3. ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 96 No. 1707.
  4. ↑ Ulrich Muhs: The Evangelical Church Community Berlin-Lichterfelde in the last forty years. Berlin 1938, p. 52 f.
  5. ↑ Hans Mommsen , Manfred Grieger: The Volkswagen factory and its workers in the Third Reich. P. 253.
personal data
SURNAME Kremmer, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Berlin