Werner Hebebrand

Werner Hebebrand (born March 27, 1899 in Elberfeld ; † October 18, 1966 in Hamburg ) was a German architect and town planner who also worked as a construction clerk and university lecturer at times.

Life

After graduating from high school in Marburg in 1917, Hebebrand was drafted as a soldier for military service. After he was released from captivity in 1919 , he began to study architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 1922 he passed the main diploma examination and two years later the second state examination. He began the preparatory service ( legal clerkship ) for a career as a construction clerk . From 1925 to 1929 he was an employee at the Frankfurt Building Department and was involved in the New Frankfurt project under Ernst May and Martin Elsaesser . Hebebrand built, among other things, the main customs office in Frankfurt's old town in 1928 . In 1929 he left the public service and founded his own architecture office.

With Ernst May's staff of specialists, he went to the Soviet Union in 1930 to take part in the rapid construction work of entire cities. Initially, Hebebrand worked as an architect and urban planner in the People's Commissariat for Heavy Industry. After Ernst May left the Soviet Union in 1933, Hebebrand stayed there and dealt with the planning and construction of hospitals. In the Great Terror of Stalin in 1937, Hebebrand was arrested and expelled as a foreigner.

Back in National Socialist Germany, Hebebrand found a job in the architectural office of Herbert Rimpl , who advanced to become the most important industrial architect in the Third Reich through commissions for the Messerschmitt aircraft works and the Hermann Göring works . I.a. Hebebrand was involved in the planning of the “City of Hermann Göring Works”, later Salzgitter , and in 1944 was appointed to Albert Speer's staff for the reconstruction of cities destroyed by bombs.

After the war, Hebebrand initially worked as a private architect in Marburg, until in 1946, at the suggestion of his former colleague and head of the building construction office, Eugen Blanck, he was appointed head of the city planning office in Frankfurt am Main. Not because of his activities under National Socialism, but because of disagreements in questions of reconstruction, he left the authority two years later and worked as a freelance architect in Frankfurt. In 1950 he was appointed to the chair for urban planning at the Technical University of Hanover , where he held the professorship for two years .

From 1952 to 1964 he was senior construction director in Hamburg . In his construction plan from 1960, a floor area of 2.0 was specified for new buildings in the city , large administrative buildings were to move to the city ​​north, which was planned from 1961 . The planning of the Osdorfer Born estate was also based on this construction plan.

The Hebebrandstrasse in the Hamburg districts of Barmbek-Nord , Ohlsdorf and Winterhude is named after Werner Hebebrand .

Awards

In November 1954, two projects in Frankfurt am Main were recognized as "exemplary buildings in Hesse": a nine-storey residential building Trierische Gasse - corner of An der Paulskirche and a rental building in Saalburgallee - Kettelerallee 1, 2, 3 and 4. The jury was from the Association of German Architects and the Hessian Minister of Finance . The following architects belonged to it: Werner Hebebrand, Konrad Rühl , Sep Ruf and Ernst Zinsser . Hebebrand realized the buildings together with Walter Schlempp .

literature

• Werner Durth : German Architects. Biographical entanglements 1900–1970. dtv , Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-04579-5 , p. 509. (short biography)
• Lothar Juckel :  Hebebrand, Werner Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 164 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Jan Lubitz: Hebebrand, Werner . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 138-140 .
• Astrid Volpert: world experiences. Werner Hebebrand's rehabilitation and trips to the USSR . In: Berliner Debatte Initial 29th year (2018), no.3 (focus: Germans see the Soviet Union), ISBN 978-3-945878-91-0 , pp. 53-64.

Web links

• Hebebrand's biography on the website of the architectural historian Jan Lubitz
• Werner Hebebrand Archive at the Archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Award for exemplary buildings in the state of Hesse on November 6, 1954 . In: The Hessian Minister of Finance (Hrsg.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1955 no. 4 , p. 70 , point 75 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.6 MB ]).