Walter Henn (architect)

Walter Erich Henn (born December 20, 1912 in Reichenberg ; † August 13, 2006 in Murnau am Staffelsee ) was a German architect , civil engineer and university professor .

Life

Henn studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Dresden from 1931 to 1935 and architecture at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Wilhelm Kreis from 1934 to 1937 . He received the diploma in both courses and received his doctorate in 1936/1937 with a dissertation on a topic from the field of hydraulic engineering . After working in the construction industry and doing military service from 1939 to 1945, Henn accepted a call at the Dresden University of Technology. Here he was professor for building construction , industrial construction and building protection from 1946 to 1953 . He then went to the Technical University of Braunschweig as a professor for building construction and industrial construction in 1953 , where he retired in 1980.

In 1947, Henn founded his office in Dresden and in 1954 he moved to Braunschweig . From 1979 to 1989 there was a partnership with his son Gunter Henn , who has been running the Henn office alone since 1990.

Act

With Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer and Dieter Oesterlen , Walter Henn founded the so-called “ Braunschweiger Schule ”, an architectural education that was highly regarded in the 1950s and 1960s.

Walter Henn defended the unity of research, teaching and implementation:

"A professor has to give lectures, to build, to comment in writing in order to be available for a well-founded criticism even after decades, he has to take part in competitions and has to submit to consistent criticism of his buildings."

He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. In 1959 he became a full member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society . In 1976 he received an honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology, from the Dresden University of Technology in 1995 and from the University of Krakow in 1997.

plant

Buildings (selection)

Administration building of Osram Licht AG, Henn in cooperation with the leading Osram architect Dieter Ströbel , Munich 1966

• 1950 to 1952: Drude building of the TU Dresden
• 1957: Siemens & Halske AG production building, Braunschweig
• before 1957: New buildings for Brunsviga Maschinenwerke AG, Braunschweig, Franz-Trinks-Straße
• before 1957: Repair shop for the AKN railway in Kaltenkirchen
• 1961: High-voltage hall ("parabolic hall") of Siemens AG in Berlin
• 1962: Administration building of the Deckel machine shop, Munich
• 1965: Headquarters of Osram Licht AG in Munich in cooperation with the leading Osram architect Dieter Ströbel
• 1966: Moselle power station and Detzem barrage
• 1972: Max Planck Institute in Göttingen
• 1976: Multipurpose high-rise at the University of Bremen
• 1987: VW Research Center in Wolfsburg (together with K. Petersen)
• 1988: Main exchange in Dortmund

Fonts (selection)

• Industrial buildings. (Volume 1: Planning, design, construction / Volume 2: An international cross-section) Callwey, Munich 1955.
• The flat roof. Callwey, Munich 1960.
• Design and construction atlas. (= Industriebau , Volume 2) Callwey, Munich 1961.
• International examples. (= Industriebau , Volume 3) Callwey, Munich 1962.
• (with Hilde Henn): Social housing in industry. (= Industriebau , Volume 4) Callwey, Munich 1966.
• Floors. Callwey, Munich 1964
• The partition. Callwey, Munich 1969.
• Exterior walls. Callwey, Munich 1975.
• (with Franz Hart, Hansjürgen Sontag): Steel construction atlas. Multi-storey buildings. Verlag Architektur und Baudetail, Munich 1974. (Study edition 1977) / 2nd, revised edition, Institute for International Architecture Documentation, Munich 1982 (unchanged reprint: Rudolf Müller, Cologne 1994).

The industrial construction theory also appeared in France, Great Britain, Japan, Poland, Spain, the USSR and Hungary.

literature

• Dietmar Brandenburger: Walter Henn on his 90th birthday. In: Bauwelt . No. 47, 2002, p. 5.
• Susann Buttolo, Hans-Georg Lippert (ed.): Walter Henn - The aesthetics of the functional. web, Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-942411-79-0 .
• Olaf Gisbertz, Sebastian Hoyer: "About the old and the new building" - About buildings for industry and science by Walter Henn. In: INSITU . Volume 8, No. 2, 2016, pp. 269–282.
• Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 354-355.

Web links

Commons : Walter Henn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Walter Henn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Architect portrait about Walter Henn
• Walter Henn (architect). In: arch INFORM .
• Obituary by Benedikt Hotze
• Estate in the SLUB Dresden

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} List of doctoral candidates at the TH Dresden for the period 1900 to 1945 (letter H) , last accessed on May 14, 2011
2. ^ Factory for communications technology. In: henn.com. Retrieved February 15, 2016 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Der Baumeister , born 1957, booklet 10.
4. ↑ High-voltage test field. In: henn.com. Retrieved February 15, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Cover machine factory. In: henn.com. Retrieved February 15, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Osram headquarters. (No longer available online.) In: henn.com. Archived from the original on February 15, 2016 ; accessed on February 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Max Planck Institute. In: henn.com. Retrieved February 15, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Postbauten , Karl Krämer Verlag 1989