Richard Brademann

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Entrance to the Bornholmer Straße S-Bahn station on the Bösebrücke

Richard Brademann (* 17th May 1884 in Halberstadt , † 20th April 1965 in Berlin ) was a German architect and railways - construction officer, Mr . He created a particularly large number of railway buildings in Berlin.

Life

From 1903 Brademann studied architecture at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . In July 1908 he received his diploma and began a legal clerkship in the civil service. In 1913, after passing the state examination, he was appointed government builder ( assessor in the public building administration) and the next year he took a position at the Prussian Railway Administration , which was merged with the Reichsbahn in 1920 and with the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1924 . In 1920 he became senior building officer and head of one of the three building construction departments.

Between 1922 and 1939 he designed numerous buildings for the Berlin S-Bahn and shaped them with his clear, factual, functional style. In addition to station buildings, he also built substations , signal boxes and other technical buildings there. During this time, the expansion and electrification of the Berlin city, ring and suburban railways to create an exemplary S-Bahn system at the time. Many of his buildings are still present in the Berlin cityscape today, are under monument protection and can be recognized by his special design signature. He thus had a similar influence on Berlin's railway architecture as Alfred Grenander did on Berlin's subway architecture between 1902 and 1930.

Potsdamer Platz S-Bahn station in Berlin

In 1931 Brademann joined the NSDAP . In April 1933 he brought to the Reich Chancellery a note, which he had at least co-authored, on "personal and factual abuses in the main administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft". The letter contained a long list of people on the administrative board, board of directors, management and in the subsidiary companies of the Reichsbahn who were defamed as Jews, half-Jews, democrats, Marxists or Freemasons. In February 1937, Brademann reported to the Reich Ministry of Transport that his grandmother was of Jewish origin. After a statement by the Reich Office for Family Research , Adolf Hitler decreed that Brademann could remain a simple party member.

After the Second World War , Brademann, who was no longer allowed to work in the civil service, went to Yugoslavia , where he was involved in the reconstruction. He later returned to West Berlin , where he died in 1965. Richard Brademann's grave is in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg .

Buildings (selection)

Converter, rectifier and switchgear

The Hermsdorf converter plant of the Berlin S-Bahn in April 2007
Former rectifier plant in Hennigsdorf
Velten railcar hangar
  • 1922–1924: Pankow converter plant
  • 1922–1925: Hermsdorf converter plant
  • 1924–1926: Hennigsdorf rectifier plant
  • 1925–1926: Tegel rectifier plant
  • 1927: rectifier plant in Saalestrasse
  • 1927–1928: Halensee switchgear and rectifier plant (today also the headquarters of the Berlin S-Bahn)
  • 1927–1928: Markgrafendamm switchgear and rectifier plant
  • 1927–1928: Switching and rectifier plant in Ebersstrasse
  • 1927–1928: rectifier and signal box in Hermannstrasse
  • 1927–1928: Switching and rectifier factory in Friedrichstrasse
  • 1927–1928: Niederöneweide rectifier plant
  • 1927–1928: Nikolassee rectifier plant
  • 1927–1928: Griebnitzsee rectifier plant (from 1996 to 2016 location of the Berlin S-Bahn Museum )
  • 1928: Rectifier works in Charlottenburg (today Kunsthalle Koidl )
  • 1928: Gesundbrunnen rectifier plant
  • 1932–1933: Lichterfelde West rectifier plant

Station building

Railcar hangars

Fonts

literature

  • Susanne Dost: Richard Brademann (1884-1965). Architect of the Berlin S-Bahn. B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-933254-36-1 .
  • Jan Gympel : Who was Richard Brademann? In: Berliner S-Bahn-Museum (Ed.): Caution high voltage! 75 years of the Berlin S-Bahn - power for rapid urban traffic. GVE-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-89218-175-0 , pp. 57-63.

Web links

Commons : Richard Brademann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the whole: Alfred Gottwaldt: The Reichsbahn and the Jews 1933–1939 - Anti-Semitism on the railroad in the prewar period. Marix, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-86539-254-1 , pp. 71f.
  2. ↑ Alfred Gottwaldt, ibid, p. 224.
  3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Richard Brademann
personal data
SURNAME Brademann, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1965
Place of death Berlin