Wilhelm Wortmann

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Wilhelm Wortmann (born March 15, 1897 in Bremen ; † October 26, 1995 in Hanover ) was a German architect , urban planner and university professor .

biography

Wortmann was the son of a businessman. He graduated from high school in Bremen and studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and the Technical University of Dresden . In 1924 he became a Dipl.-Ing. From 1924 to 1925 he worked as an architect in Emil Högg's office, in 1926 at the Halle city ​​planning office and from 1926 to 1927 together with Konstanty Gutschow at Fritz Schumacher's head office in Hamburg .

Bremen

On the advice of Schumacher, he returned to his hometown Bremen in 1927 and worked there for four years until 1931 in the city planning office. After returning to the public service, Wortmann was appointed building officer in 1934, senior building officer in 1941 and building director in the building administration in 1943. In 1940 he was appointed head of the Bremen-Oldenburg regional planning association . In 1941 he was appointed head of the immediate measures department and deputy head of the construction department at the building senator. In December 1943 he formulated: "The war, and especially the aerial warfare, inflicts the fatal blow to the city of yesterday and today and breaks a powerful breach in the struggle for its comprehensive recovery and true redesign."

In 1944 he developed the general development plan for Bremen based on earlier plans by the city planning office from the 1920s and von Offenberg (1934 to 1942) for the reconstruction. Wortmann criticized "... the radical inner city plans of building director Gerhard Offenberg", called them "unbremish" and spoke out in favor of preserving the urban structure and the buildings. In 1944 he was appointed to Albert Speer's staff for the reconstruction of cities destroyed by bombs.

After the Second World War , Wortmann was dismissed from office because of his membership in the NSDAP. Reinstatement was rejected in 1946 by the civil servants' committee of the building authority and in 1948 by the denazification authority.

From 1946 to 1949 he worked for the Bremen Development Association founded by Gerhard Iversen (CDU) . During the reconstruction of Bremen in the post-war period, he tried to exert an influence through the building community. Like the building authorities at the time, he was an advocate of the unrealized Mozart route through the quarter (Bremen) and the Neustadt to relieve traffic in the Bremen city center.

As an architect, he formed an office community with Erik Schott in Bremen from 1949 to 1956 and planned the Seefahrt house (1951), the Kontorhaus and Hafenspeicher Auf der Muggenburg (1951), the Fruchthof Bremen (1955), buildings in Nordmende and other commercial and residential buildings. He was also involved in the urban planning of the western suburb in Walle from 1953 to 1956 .

Hanover

From 1950 he and Rudolf Hillebrecht developed the land use plan for the city of Hanover , which became legally binding in 1951. His regional city planning model for the greater Hanover area, which has been linked to this since 1952, was a pioneering contribution to the development of a new urban form that also served as a preliminary stage for the formation of the association for the greater Hanover area . He was also in charge of the Hanover-related urban development project “New City Heitlingen”, which has been a district of Garbsen since 1974 .

University professor

In 1956, Wortmann was appointed professor for urban development, housing and regional planning at the Technical University of Hanover . From 1958 to 1964 he was Dean of the Faculty of Construction and 1960/61 Rector of the TH Hannover. In 1965 he was retired ; he was followed by Friedrich Spengelin at the chair for urban development, housing and regional planning . Wortmann then headed the location research working group at the TH and developed, among other things, a concept for urban renewal in the city of Soltau .

Honors

Fonts

Wortmann was the author of numerous works and above all essays on urban planning and urban development with a local focus in the area of ​​Bremen and Hanover.

  • The construction of the city of Hanover. Memorandum. The zoning plan . Hanover around 1952
  • Tamms and Wortmann: Urban development - environmental design. Experiences and thoughts . Darmstadt, 1973.
  • Bremen - settlement area, urban development . Ed .: Aufbaugemeinschaft Bremen , Wiederaufbauverlag, Bremen 1970.
  • Bremen builder of the 19th and 20th centuries . Ed .: Aufbaugemeinschaft Bremen , Döll-Verlag , Bremen 1988, ISBN 3-88808-056-8 .
  • German city foundations in modern times . Harrassowitz Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-447-02970-6 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Schwendemann: The consequences of destruction. Building bombs . In: Spiegel Special 1/2003, Hamburg 2003.
  2. ↑ according to Durth / Gutschow
  3. ↑ Durth / Gutschow p. 331
  4. ↑ City and state planning Bremen 1926-1930 with contribution by Wortmann "Planning for the inner city" (pp. 168-87)
  5. ^ Wilhelm Wortmann: Bremen - Siedlungsraum, Stadtentwicklung , p. 28 ff, Bremen 1970.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Bargmann : The city of Soltau in the history of Lower Saxony, Volume 3, chapter The urban renewal , pp. 209–225
personal data
SURNAME Wortmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German urban planner and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1995
Place of death Hanover