Senate building directors of Berlin

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The Senate Building Director in Berlin is an office with the rank of State Secretary in the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing , which deals with municipal building tasks and the overall planning of Berlin. The office was introduced in West Berlin in 1951 by the Reuter Senate . There are also Senate building directors in the state of Bremen ; in the state of Hamburg , the corresponding position is called Senior Construction Director .

This list shows the Berlin Senate Building Directors and their predecessors in East Berlin , Greater Berlin , the City of Berlin and comparable architects and builders of the Prussian kings who were formative for the cityscape.

Senate building directors of West Berlin

Surname Period Remarks
Regula Lüscher since 2006 Lüscher founded the “Baukollegium”, a committee of architects and construction experts, to which investors and their builders are supposed to present their plans.
Hans Stimmann 2000-2006
Barbara Jakubeit 1996-1999
Hans Stimmann 1991-1996 Implemented the historical city plan as a planning model from 1996 to 1999 with the “ Inner City Plan ”. This resulted in the "Inner City Plan".
1982-1991 Office vacant
Hans Christian Müller 1967-1982 dismissed by building senator Ulrich Rastemborski (CDU)
Werner Düttmann 1960-1966 is one of the most important representatives of post-war modernism , planned the construction of the Märkisches Viertel. In the late 1960s and 1970s, Düttmann played a key role as city planner in the implementation of area renovation measures in Berlin-Kreuzberg , especially in the area around the Kottbusser Tor .
Hans Stephan 1956-1960 Resigned in 1960 due to political pressure
Ludwig Lemmer 1951-1956

Chief architect of East Berlin

The post of chief architect of East Berlin was created in 1953. In order to guarantee the architectural-artistic development of the Berlin building projects and to take into account the urban development-artistic side of the reconstruction plan of Berlin according to its importance, it was decided to reorganize the construction department and to assign a chief architect for Greater Berlin to the mayor. In addition to the “official” chief architects for Berlin ( Henselmann , Gericke , Näther and Korn ) there were others who were responsible for certain areas or projects.

Surname Period Remarks
Roland Korn 1973-1990 Chief architect of East Berlin, especially in the reconstruction of the Nikolai district involved
Joachim Näther 1964-1973 Chief architect of East Berlin, was largely responsible for the redesign of the Fischerinsel .
Hans Gericke 1959-1964 Chief architect for the reconstruction of Berlin
Hermann Henselmann 1953-1959 Chief architect at the magistrate of East Berlin
Other important chief architects
Heinz Graffunder 1976-1988 Chief architect and head of urban planning in Berlin-Mitte (building complex along Rathaus- and Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse), head of the design collective and chief architect of the Palast der Republik and the new Berlin districts of Marzahn and Hellersdorf
Josef Kaiser 1973 Chief architect and personal advisor to the director of construction management for special building projects in East Berlin, Erhardt Gißke .
Erhardt Gißke 1958-1963 City planning director of Berlin, 1955 to 1958 deputy of the chief architect Henselmann

City planning officer of Greater Berlin / City of Berlin

After the new urban order in Prussia came into force in 1808 and the establishment of the Magistrate of Berlin , Friedrich Wilhelm III. Friedrich Wilhelm Langerhans as the first town planning officer. The city ordinance provided for a magistrate constitution with two organs: the elected city council assembly and the magistrate appointed by it with paid and unpaid city councilors as the executive . According to the city code, the salaried members were two lawyers, a syndic , a chamberlain and a city councilor for construction. In 1845 a second building council office was set up and the office was divided into civil engineering.

The tasks of the municipal building councils mainly included the planning, implementation and monitoring of municipal building projects.

Surname Period Remarks
Karl Bonatz 1946-1948 Since 1947 successor to city planning officer Hans Scharoun and from 1949 city planning director in West Berlin
Hans Scharoun 1945-1946 City planning officer, head of the building and housing department. Elaboration of a reconstruction concept
Albert Speer 1937-1945 General building inspector for the capital of the Reich in the rank of minister, the municipal building administration lost its powers
Max Rendschmidt 1933-1937 “Stadtbaudirektor” with city councilor Benno Kühn (civil engineering) and Adalbert Pfeil
Martin Wagner 1926-1933 Successor to Hoffmann, who saw himself as the “organizer of the metropolis of Berlin” and was also responsible for the new urban housing developments. "On leave" in March 1933 as town planning officer by the Nazi rulers
unoccupied 1924-1925 After Hoffmann retired at the age of 71 through the introduction of the age limit of 65 years, a successor was not found until 1926 in Martin Wagner.
Friedrich Krause 1897-1921 City planning officer for civil engineering, successor to Hobrecht
Ludwig Hoffmann 1896-1924 With more than 300 buildings, it had a decisive impact on the cityscape
Hermann Blankenstein 1872-1896 An almost unmistakable number of buildings, including 120 schools, still characterize the Berlin cityscape today. His brick and terracotta style outlasted the eclecticism of the founding years .
James Hobrecht 1884-1896 City Planning Council of the City of Berlin for road and bridge construction; developed the Hobrecht Plan
Carl Theodor Rospatt 1873-1884 City planning officer for civil engineering designed the typical Berlin lavatory " Café Achteck "
Adolf Gerstenberg 1861-1871 In 1851 he founded the Berlin professional fire brigade together with Ludwig Scabell and worked as a fire inspector until 1861. City planning officer in Berlin and predecessor of Hermann Blankenstein
Gustav Holtzmann 1852-1860 Built u. a. the Friedrichs orphanage in Rummelsburg and the provost office of the Nikolaikirche .
Franz Alexander Wilhelm Kreyher 1845-1859 From 1845 city architect at Langerhans, from 1849 his successor
Christian Gottlieb Cantian 1822-1832 Unpaid city planning officer. Created the large granite bowl in the pleasure garden .
Friedrich Wilhelm Langerhans 1809-1849 Berlin's first full-time urban planning officer

Royal court architect / building director / architect of the king

The builders and architects listed here can, in the broadest sense, be considered the ancestors of the Senate building directors. You were in the civil service and decisively shaped the cityscape of Berlin.

Surname Period Remarks
Johann Carl Ludwig Schmid 1842-1849 Head of the Oberbaudeputation; Drafted the development plan for the Berlin area in 1827, Schmid's work was one of the conceptual forerunners of the later Hobrecht plan of 1862
Peter Joseph Lenné 1840 In 1840 he was one of the first to draw up an overall plan for Berlin and the surrounding area: Projected decorative and border trains from Berlin to the immediate vicinity. Many of Lenné's ideas and ideas flowed into the Hobrecht Plan .
August Adolph Günther 1841-1842 From 1836 he was also a teacher at the building academy, was promoted to deputy senior building director in 1838 and, after Schinkel's death in November 1841, was appointed as his successor as senior building director, but died in December 1842.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1815-1841 Oberlandesbaudirektor and architect of the king
Johann Albert Eytelwein 1809-1830 As director of the Oberbaudeputation he was Oberlandesbaudirektor and predecessor Schinkel from 1816
Carl Gotthard Langhans 1788-1806 In 1788 Friedrich Wilhelm II. Appointed director of the newly established Oberhofbauamt in Berlin, which was closed in 1806
Georg Christian Unger 1787-1799 Unger was Oberhofbaurat from 1787 and director of the Immediatbaukommission from 1788
Michael Philipp Boumann 1778-1803 Secret Oberhof building officer, general manager and building director
Georg Friedrich von Boumann 1776-1778 Successor to his father as senior building director and senior court building officer under Langhans
Jan Bouman 1755-1776 Senior Building Director for building projects in Berlin and Potsdam
Christian Friedrich Feldmann 1746-1765 Kurmärkischer Oberbaudirektor in Berlin
Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff 1740-1746 Chief architect of King Friedrich II. In 1746 he resigned the management of Friedrich's most important buildings for health reasons.
Titus de Favre 1737-1740 Senior Building Director, together with Johann Carl Stoltze; under King Frederick II, Favre was only active in the provinces.
Philipp Gerlach 1707-1737 Royal building director, from 1720 senior building director
Johann Friedrich Eosander von Göthe 1699-1713 Court architect
Andreas Schlueter 1698 (1699?) -1713 Palace building director, was in competition with Eosander
Martin Grünberg 1695-1698 Chief Building Director of the Electorate of Brandenburg
Johann Arnold Nering 1691-1695 Chief Building Director of the Electorate of Brandenburg
Johann Gregor Memhardt from 1650 Court architect under Friedrich Wilhelm

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  1. ^ Planning works / State of Berlin. In: stadtentwicklung.berlin.de. January 29, 2010, accessed May 2, 2019 .
  2. ^ Neue Zeit , July 26, 1953, p. 10
  3. ↑ Manfred Sack: Old Berlin has lost face. In: zeit.de . June 16, 1972, Retrieved May 2, 2019 .
  4. ^ Ludwig Hoffmann: Building for Berlin 1896-1924
  5. ^ Dörte Döhl: Ludwig Hoffmann ... , 37.
  6. ↑ Todtenschau . In: Deutsche Bau-Zeitung . tape 35 , 1901 ( online [accessed May 7, 2019]).
  7. ^ Gustav Holtzmann at Deutsche Fotothek. In: deutschefotothek.de. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .