Paul Wolters (architect)

Paul Wolters (born November 9, 1913 in Papenburg ; † September 18, 1998 in Hanover ) was a German architect .

Life

Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice , built 1962–1964 by Wolters and Bock at Waterlooplatz 1 in Hanover

“ Protest !” - Advertisement against the demolition of the Villa Willmer monument and for a Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act ;
1970 in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

Born at the time of the German Empire , Paul Wolters began studying architecture in Hanover at the Technical University there after the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the Nazi era , but also attended Heinrich Tessenow's lectures at the 1936 and 1937 Technical University of Charlottenburg in Berlin , in order to finally take his main diploma examination in Hanover in 1937.

In the following years Wolters trained for the higher civil engineering administration service from 1937 to 1940, after the government temporarily referred him to the Technical University of Hanover as Otto Fiederling's assistant . After his graduation in 1940, Wolters had to do his military service until 1945 in World War II , when he became a prisoner of war .

After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany , Paul Wolters was accepted into the civil service of the newly created state of Lower Saxony in 1949 . Here he conducted the Staatshochbauamt Hannover I .

Paul Wolters had previously been awarded the Laves plaque in 1954 for the building of the student residence at Lodyweg 1 and the canteen in Welfengarten .

Until his retirement in 1978 as chief building director, he also won several awards in architectural competitions , including 1st prize for the extension to the Wangenheim Palace for the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics .

Works (selection)

Entrance to the Hanover Chamber of Agriculture in Johannsenstrasse

The "Dammer Berge" motorway bridge rest stop built by Wolters and Bock until 1969

1951–1952: Student residence at Lodyweg 1 , Hanover;
1952: Canteen of the Technical University, Im Welfengarten , Hanover; later converted to the - listed - Theodor Lessing House ;
1954–1956: Extension to the Wangenheimpalais for the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Hanover;
1956: Auetal motorway service station near Bispingen ;
1956–1958, based on the model of Notre-Dame-du-Haut (Ronchamp) by Le Corbusier : Adalbertkirche in Leinhausen , Hanover, Stöckener Strasse 43
1958–1960: Building for the Lower Saxony Administrative Office, Auestrasse 14, Hanover;
1959–1961: Building of the Hanover Chamber of Agriculture at the corner of Schiffgraben and Lavesstrasse , Hanover;

1962–1964, together with Gerd Fesel : Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice , Am Waterlooplatz 1 , Hanover;

1962–1964, together with Manfred Hofknecht (construction management): St. Franziskus church center with church, parsonage and parsonage

1967–1969, together with Manfred Bock : motorway bridge rest stop "Dammer Berge"

1968: Office building of the Hanover District Government ; 1992 expanded by the architects Kleine, Ripken, Teicher

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural-historical identity , 2nd, revised edition, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2001, ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , passim ; Preview over google books .
↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Welfengarten 1A . In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 216
↑ Michael Braum, Christian Welzbacher (Ed.): Post-war modernity in Germany. Thinking one epoch ahead. Baukultur on site: Hanover , funded by the Bundesstiftung Baukultur , Basel; Boston, Massachusetts; Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2009, ISBN 978-3-03-460108-5 , p. 14f .; online through google books
↑ ^a ^b Martin Wörner, Ulrich Hägele, Sabine Kirchhof: St. Adalbertkirche , in: Architekturführer Hannover (= Architectural Guide to Hannover ), with an introduction by Stefan Amt, in German and English, Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-496-01210-2 , pp. 92, 134
^ Peter Haßmann: From makeshift to inauguration , in: 50 years of St. Franziskus. Catholic Church in the Hanover districts of Vahrenheide and Sahlkamp , ed. from the Friends of the Catholic Church of St. Franziskus in Hanover-Vahrenheide eV, Hanover: BenatzkyMünstermann (print), 2015, pp. 20-25; here: p. 24f.

personal data
SURNAME	Wolters, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	November 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Papenburg
DATE OF DEATH	September 18, 1998
Place of death	Hanover

[Wiederaufbau_und_Zerstörung-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural-historical identity , 2nd, revised edition, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2001, ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , passim ; Preview over google books .

[2] Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Welfengarten 1A . In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 216

[3] Michael Braum, Christian Welzbacher (Ed.): Post-war modernity in Germany. Thinking one epoch ahead. Baukultur on site: Hanover , funded by the Bundesstiftung Baukultur , Basel; Boston, Massachusetts; Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2009, ISBN 978-3-03-460108-5 , p. 14f .; online through google books

[Architekturführer-4] Martin Wörner, Ulrich Hägele, Sabine Kirchhof: St. Adalbertkirche , in: Architekturführer Hannover (= Architectural Guide to Hannover ), with an introduction by Stefan Amt, in German and English, Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-496-01210-2 , pp. 92, 134

[5] Peter Haßmann: From makeshift to inauguration , in: 50 years of St. Franziskus. Catholic Church in the Hanover districts of Vahrenheide and Sahlkamp , ed. from the Friends of the Catholic Church of St. Franziskus in Hanover-Vahrenheide eV, Hanover: BenatzkyMünstermann (print), 2015, pp. 20-25; here: p. 24f.