Otto Meffert

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Otto Meffert (born December 19, 1879 in Warmbach , Taunus , † August 1, 1970 in Hanover ) was a German architect , urban planner and city planning officer .

Life

Meffert studied from around 1900 at the Kunstgewerbeschule Barmen-Elberfeld as well as at the Staatliche Baugewerkschule Frankfurt / Oder and was then employed for 8 years in the Barmen City Building Office, where he was in charge of the building management and drawing up development plans .

From 1912 Meffert worked as a city ​​architect in Hanover and was appointed municipal architect in 1923 . From 1924 he headed the department for urban expansion and from the following year 1925 he became the closest employee of the city planning officer Karl Elkart . From summer 1945 Meffert was initially acting, and from 1946 to August 1948 elected successor to Karl Elkart.

As city architect Otto Meffert organized now the (re) construction of about 48 percent destroyed city Hannover: In addition to clearing the debris and repairs began in 1947 with a longer-term planning, the individual parts of the still under the Nazis developed radical plan 1944 / 45 for the new construction of the city. This included relieving the inner city of traffic by means of road breakthroughs , widening of streets and a so-called " Leinerandstraße ", the loosening of the previously dense development and greater greening . However, these plans were revised as early as 1947/48 by an expert opinion by a working group at the Technical University led by Finsterwalder , Högg , Otto Fiederling and Ernst Zinsser . Meffert's successor Rudolf Hillebrecht , however, did not use these revised plans as the basis for further development planning.

Otto Meffert remained active on the Hanover building committee and as a consultant until 1952.

Honors

Otto Meffert was posthumously honored by the state capital Hanover by naming Meffertstrasse, which was laid out in 1984 in the Bothfeld district .

Fonts

  • Otto Meffert, Hermann Wernicke: The green spaces of the capital Hanover , Ed .: Städtische Presseamt, Hanover, Hanover: Osterwald, 1948
  • Otto Meffert: The urban planning preparation of the building work by the municipal building councilor. In: Karl Elkart: New building in Hanover , ed. from the Hanover Tourist Office, Hanover: Schmorl & von Seefeld Nachf., 1929

literature

  • Werner Durth , Niels Gutschow : Dreams in ruins: plans for the reconstruction of destroyed cities in western Germany 1940 - 1950 , in the series of writings of the German Architecture Museum on the history of architecture and the theory of architecture , ed. by Heinrich Klotz on behalf of the Department of Culture and Leisure of the City of Frankfurt am Main, German Architecture Museum Frankfurt am Main, Braunschweig; Wiesbaden: Vieweg, 1988, ISBN 3-528-08706-4 , Vol. 2, p. 762
  • Alfons Schmidt: Capital planning in Hanover since 1945. Architecture and urban development of the parliament and the highest state authorities of Lower Saxony in the state capital Hanover in the post-war period. A building history documentation taking into account general aspects of state administration and urban development in Hanover since 1636 , at the same time dissertation in 1993 at the University of Hanover, in the series of writings of the Institute for the history of architecture and art at the Technical University of Hanover , Vol. 9, 1st edition, Hanover : Institute for the history of architecture and art, 1995, ISBN 3-931585-06-9 , p. 340 and so on.
  • Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. Schlütersche, Hannover 2001 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , pp. 331f.
  • Helmut Knocke : MEFFERT, Otto. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 248 and others.
  • Helmut Knocke: Meffert, Otto. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 436.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Helmut Knocke: MEFFERT, Otto (see literature)
  2. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 694f.
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Meffertstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 172
personal data
SURNAME Meffert, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and urban planning officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Warmbach , Taunus
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1970
Place of death Hanover