Rolf Störmer

Rolf Störmer (* 1907 in Bremerhaven ; † June 11, 1982 in Juist ) was a German architect .

biography

Störmer studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover and at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and passed his exam in 1934 with the distinction of distinction, which was rare at the time . From 1934 to 1938 he was employed in a construction department of the Air Force and since 1938 in the architecture office of Wilhelm Kreis .

After the Second World War he worked as a freelance architect in Bremen from 1947 . Since 1947 he has also been a member of the planning team of the Bremen construction community . One of his first plans was the Lattemann shoe store on Sögestraße . In the 1950s, the labor and health office in Vegesack was built according to his plans . For Norddeutscher Lloyd , but also for other shipping companies, he designed the interior fittings of passenger ships. He also planned leisure and swimming pools. A design by Stömer and Frei Otto for a tent roof construction over Sögestraße in Bremen was awarded first prize in 1968, but was never realized. In 1962 he built the Störmer house in Schnoor , where his studio and apartment were.

The Hamburg architect Jan Störmer (* 1942) is his son.

Works

• Lattemann shoe store, Bremen Sögestraße, 1951
• Labor and Health Office Bremen-Nord, 1950
• Radio Bremen , broadcasting hall Heinrich-Hertz-Strasse, 1952
• Pine house in Sögestraße, 1954
• Contrescarpe residential complex 105–110, together with Behérycz, 1954/55
• Former office building of Gothaer Versicherungsbank together with Behérycz in Bremen - center at President-Kennedy-Platz
• Schnoorviertel : Renovations and new buildings in the Schnoorviertel working group since 1959
  • House Störmer , Hinter der Holzpforte 1, 1962
  • Studio house and cat café, Schnoor 38, 1966/68
• School at Butjadinger Strasse 21 in Bremen - Woltmershausen , 1960
• First prize in the Sögestraßen competition together with Frei Otto and Karl-Heinz Stelling, 1968; the high tent roof was not realized, but the rest of the pedestrian zone, 1973 (not preserved because it has been renewed in the meantime).
• Alsterschwimmhalle ( swimming opera ), Hamburg-Hohenfelde, working group Horst Niessen and Rolf Störmer, 1973

swell

• The structure: Rolf Störmer . Obituary in issue 2, August 1982
• Bremen Center for Building Culture ; Eberhard Syring: Architecture Guide Bremen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baumeister 48 (1951) 4, p. 214