Otto Kindt

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St. Thomas Church in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort
Kapernaum Church in Hamburg-Horn

Otto Kindt (born May 7, 1909 in Paderborn ; † July 12, 2006 in Hamburg ) was a German architect .

Life

Otto Kindt studied from 1928 to 1933 at the technical universities in Darmstadt and Berlin . After working in architectural offices, he studied architecture with Heinrich Tessenow from 1935 to 1938 and became his assistant. He received his doctorate in engineering in 1940 . From 1939 to 1945 he did military service. After the Second World War , Kindt moved to Hamburg and ran an architecture office until 1975.

The German military cemeteries in Helsinki-Honkanummi (inauguration on August 30, 1963) and Rovaniemi-Norvajärvi (inauguration on August 31, 1963) as well as the military cemetery in Bastia (inauguration on August 6, 1975) were created according to Kindt's designs .

In 1975 Otto Kindt received the Heinrich Tessenow Medal .

buildings

Fonts

  • Pair. Floor plan developments for the apartment building. Bauweltverlag of Ullstein AG, Berlin 1952.
  • The residential row house. Result of a survey. Vermessungsamt Hamburg, Hamburg 1957. (= publications on building, housing and settlement , issue 25.)
  • The homely house. Ullstein Fachverlag, Berlin 1957.
  • with Hans Hasche: Exhibition and catalog compilation for the Heinrich Tessenow exhibition in 1957.
  • Single-family townhouses. Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 1961.
  • as editor: Heinrich Tessenow. Written, thoughts of a builder. Friedrich Vieweg & Son, Braunschweig 1982.
  • as editor: Heinrich Tessenow. I followed certain thoughts ... village, town, city - what now? . Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 1996.
  • as editor: Heinrich Tessenow. Thoughtful. Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2000.
  • Heinrich Tessenow and his time. According to what he wrote, the books and writings left behind. Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2005.

literature

  • Karin Berkemann : “Tomorrow's architecture!” Hamburg's post-war churches . Ed .: Monument Protection Office Hamburg. Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937904-60-3 , p. 71 .
  • Ralf Lange : Hamburg. Reconstruction and re-planning 1943–1963. Langewiesche publishing house, Königstein im Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-4610-2 . (including a short biography)
  • Architects and Engineers Association Hamburg: Hamburg and its buildings 1954–1968. Hammonia-Verlag, Hamburg 1969.
  • Heinrich Tessenow Society: The winners of the Heinrich Tessenow Medal 1963-2001. Self-published 2001, ISBN 3-00-0105069 . (including design principles and list of buildings)

Web links

Commons : Otto Kindt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to "archthek" - Historical Register of Architects, Section Kick - Kiwit , last accessed on September 16, 2014
  2. ↑ Neuengoers Kirchenkreis Plön-Segeberg, accessed on October 6, 2015
  3. ↑ Karin Berkemann : "Tomorrow's architecture!" Hamburg's post-war churches . Ed .: Monument Protection Office Hamburg. Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937904-60-3 , p. 71 .
personal data
SURNAME Kindt, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 2006
Place of death Berlin