Walter Hämer

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Walter Hämer (born September 1, 1899 in Münster ; † February 7, 1974 in Hanover ) was a German architect .

Life

After attending school, Walter Hämer studied architecture from 1916 to 1920, interrupted by military service, at the building trade school in Münster , then at the Dortmund School of Applied Arts and the Düsseldorf State Art Academy . In 1921 he married Dorothea geb. Schömann (1900–1994), the marriage had six children, including the sons Hardt-Waltherr and Peter , who also became architects. From 1923 to 1925, Hämer worked for various architecture firms in Berlin ( Heinrich Lassen , Friedrich August Hartmann , Housing Welfare Society at the Berlin City Administration ). From 1926 to 1931 he worked as a freelance architect in Berlin. In 1931 he became a consultant in the Committee for Standardization in Moscow . In 1932 further activities in the Soviet Union and extensive trips through the country followed. In 1933 he returned to Germany and worked for the Deutsche Reichspost and later for the Luftgaukommando Vienna. From 1939 to 1945 Hämer was a soldier in World War II. In 1945 he became a district architect in Berlin-Tiergarten , from 1947 to 1948 he worked as a town planning officer in Lünen , and in 1949/1950 he taught as a professor of building theory at the University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar . 1950/1951 he headed the planning and construction management department at the Chamber of Agriculture Westphalia-Lippe in Münster, 1951/1952 he worked in the planning office of the city of Hanover, from 1953 to 1973 as a freelance architect in Hanover.

buildings

Listed car park Schmiedestrasse in Hannover-Mitte (built 1964/65, location )
Memorial plaque on the house, Gäßnerweg 55, in Berlin-Tempelhof
  • 1924–1928: Participation in the Ceciliengärten residential complex in Berlin-Schöneberg by Heinrich Lassen
  • 1924/1925: Collaboration on the Villa Wagner in Berlin-Zehlendorf by Friedrich August Hoffmann
  • 1926/1927: Manteuffelstrasse residential complex in Berlin-Tempelhof
  • 1926–1929: Housing complex Große-Leege-Straße in Berlin-Lichtenberg
  • 1927/1928: Housing complex in the Heimstättensiedlung Malteserstraße in Berlin-Steglitz
  • 1927/1928: Star garages in Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 1927/1928: Adler-Werke building in Berlin-Kreuzberg, demolished in 1966 due to road relocation
  • 1928: Competition design for the Haselhorst Reich Research Estate in Berlin-Spandau
  • 1929–1931: Wilhelmstadt / Birkenwäldchen residential complex in Berlin-Spandau
  • 1935/1936: Large broadcasting facility in Zeesen , blown up in 1945
  • 1948: Eben Ezer Chapel in Lünen
  • 1948/1949: Group of houses in Lünen
  • 1951/1952: Building of the Chamber of Agriculture Westphalia-Lippe in Münster (with the building department of the chamber, Alexander Lötken and Hardt-Waltherr Hämer ; completed by Werner Ruhnau )
  • 1952–1955: Rose residential and commercial building in Hanover (together with Hardt-Waltherr Hämer and Marie-Brigitte Buro )
  • 1954: Competition design for the Lower Saxony state parliament in Hanover (together with Ulrich Gastreich and Hardt-Waltherr Hämer)
  • 1955: Day care center in Hanover-Bothfeld
  • 1955: DEA petrol station in Hanover-Ricklingen
  • 1956/1957: Competition design for the Sydney Opera House (together with Hardt-Waltherr Hämer and Fritz Eggeling )
  • 1956–1958: Type design for the Purfina filling station (together with Hardt-Waltherr Hämer)
  • 1958: Schröder style for men shop fitting in Hanover
  • 1958: Competition design for the Westphalian State Museum in Münster
  • 1958/1959: Building of Magdeburger Versicherung in Hanover (together with Hardt-Waltherr Hämer)
  • 1964/1965: Parking garage Schmiedestrasse in Hanover - a listed building
  • 1965/1966: Geschwister-Scholl-Schule in Letter (today: Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium in Seelze) (together with Peter Hämer )
  • 1966/1967: Suthwiesenstraße secondary school in Hanover-Döhren (together with Peter Hämer)
  • Erdmann department store in Hanover

Fonts

  • Termite mounds. ( Letter to the editor) In: Der Spiegel , edition 18/1949, p. 29.
  • Station service standardisées. In: Architecture d'Aujourdhui , 29, 1958, issue 77, pp. 36/37.
  • Expert draft proposal for the new building of a 10-class special school on the site at Hochkamp in Hildesheim. In: Zeitschrift für Heilpädagogik , 15, 1964, pp. 487–492.
  • Letter 66. Scholl Sibling School. (Publication on the completion of the school on September 30, 1966)

literature

  • Hardt-Waltherr Hämer (Ed.), Peter Hämer (Ed.), Karl-Robert Schütze (Ed.): Walter Hämer. Diaries of the Russian Years. Art history. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89462-192-6 .
  • Karl-Robert Schütze: Two gas stations - one architect? The construction of type filling stations at the end of the 1950s and their forgotten architects Willy H. Weisensee and Walter Hämer , in: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter 30, 2015, pp. 10-20.

Web links

Commons : Walter Hämer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files


personal data
SURNAME Hämer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1974
Place of death Hanover