Willy Maß

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Wilhelm "Willy" Maß , also Mass and Mahs (born April 2, 1880 in Berlin ; † June 4, 1947 ), was a German architect . He worked in particular in Bad Godesberg , a current district of Bonn .

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Measure was Catholic denomination; Little is known about his origins and training. He was temporarily in Remagen located from where he took off in 1909 to Bad Godesberg to be there with his "company for high - and Civil Engineering " settle. In 1909/10 he took over the company of the Rüngsdorf master builder Georg Westen (1851–1921), which already a little later (as of 1913/14) consisted of an architecture studio , a construction company and a building materials store, employed several architects and in the Rüngsdorf district (Rüngsdorfer Straße 53/55) was located. In 1911, Maß had the villa at Kronprinzenstrasse 2 built in the back yard of the office building according to his own design , where he lived with his family. In 1913 he became a member of the Deutscher Werkbund - the second artist from Godesberg after the painter and graphic artist Louis Ziercke . In addition to building private villas , he succeeded in asserting himself in orders from local industrial companies, for which he sometimes worked as a "house architect" - for example at the Ringsdorff factories in Mehlem , the Kleutgen & Meier confectionery factory and Schiller'schen Patentverschluß AG. Christoph Brüggemann was an independent, long-time employee of Maß's architectural office who later worked as an architect in Godesberg .

Residing in Siegburg from 1916 , Maß moved back to Godesberg in September 1918. He lived there with his family in various houses, including Dürenstrasse 33 and Rheinallee 34 . In 1926 Maß founded the Maß'sche Grundstücks-GmbH on the occasion of the construction of a settlement in the Plittersdorf district . In 1928 he won a competition for buildings ( morgue / chapel, gatehouse ) on the city's new central cemetery , which can be counted among his most important works. At the end of the 1920s, Maß deepened its political commitment in Bad Godesberg and since then has played a larger role in the city's public life. From 1933 the only employed architect in the Maß'schen architectural office was Robert Wahle. Maß und Wahle were able to implement their largest new building in 1937 with the - privately awarded - main office of the Stadtsparkasse Bad Godesberg, which remained the only major public building project in the city during the National Socialist era . At the latest with a construction stoppage caused by the Second World War in July 1943, Maß 'architecture office was shut down and could not resume its activities even after the end of the war, as Maß became seriously ill and died in 1947.

In Bad Godesberg at least 80 villas, larger residential buildings, industrial and public buildings go back to Willy Maß's architectural office, 23 of which (as of 2006) are listed . His design language varies between neoclassicism , expressionism and, in a later phase, a locally influenced Bauhaus style .

Public engagement and memberships

At the time of the German Empire, Maß belonged to the Godesberg mayor's council as the "most wealthy landowner" . Since 1914 he was chairman of the board of the general local health insurance fund (AOK) Bad Godesberg and since 1928 chairman of the "Verkehrs-Verein Bad Godesberg am Rhein eV". He was also a member of the board of the “Gesellschaft für Festspiele Bad Godesberg eV”, the supervisory board of the “Vereinshaus Zur Lindenwirtin (Aennchen) GmbH” and, from 1928, the supervisory board of the “Gemeinnützige Bauverein GmbH”. In 1929, Maß ran for the Reichspartei des Deutschen Mittelstandes (Economic Party ) for the municipal council in Bad Godesberg and the district committee of the Bonn district , in which he subsequently moved in. He was also chairman of the Godesberg branch of the economic party. In 1933, Maß 'candidacy for the municipal council was unsuccessful on the list of the “non-partisan municipal association”. On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP .

family

From about 1906/07 Maß was married to Maria Linder, widowed Heider (1880–1935). The marriage resulted in three children, of whom the younger son Erwin worked in the father's company before the Second World War. Since 1946 he ran his own architecture office with a partner, which was located in the previous building of the now closed company of Willy Maß (Rüngsdorfer Straße 53/55). Erwin Maß became head of the building department in the federal capital office of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia and was involved in the planning of a total of 20 settlements in Bonn from the 1950s to the early 1960s, including the so-called " Tessenow settlement" and the Mittelstrasse settlement / Donatusstraße in the Plittersdorf district .

Work (selection)

 Map with all coordinates of the plants: OSM

construction time	District	address	image	object	measure	Remarks
1909	Plittersdorf	Dollendorfer Strasse 10 location	more pictures	Meier's villa	New building	1950–1999 service villa of the President of the Bundestag; Monument protection
1909	Alt-Godesberg	Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 27 location	more pictures	Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1909-1910	Flour	Rüdigerstrasse 34 location	more pictures	Villa Langen	New building	Monument protection
1909-1910	Godesberg villa district	Rheinallee 34 location		Country house	New building (client: Willy Maß)	1954–1999 seat of various embassies; Monument protection
1910	Godesberg villa district	Rheinallee 26 location		Office building of the Keplerbund	Conversion of the facade (client: Keplerbund )	today "Paul Klee School"; Monument protection
1910	Godesberg villa district	Dürenstrasse 33 location	more pictures	Residential building (built as a nursing home)	extension
1910	Alt-Godesberg	Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 25 location	more pictures	Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1910	Godesberg villa district	Kronprinzenstrasse 46 location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1910	Rüngsdorf	Rolandstrasse 57 location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1911	Südstadt	Kaiserstraße 1a location		Residential and commercial building	New building	Monument protection
1911	Rüngsdorf	Kronprinzenstrasse 2 location	more pictures	Villa measure	New building (client: Willy Maß)	1954–1999 Embassy of Syria / Egypt; Monument protection
1911	Gronau	Willy-Brandt-Allee 18 location		Residential building	New building	1960–1999 Embassy of India ; Monument protection
1911	Plittersdorf	Rheinallee 65 location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1911	Godesberg-North	Friesdorfer Straße 131 location		Factory building Schiller'sche Patentverschluß AG (Schillerwerk)	New building	later Kleutgen & Meier, then Haribo ; monument value, canceled in 2012
1912	Godesberg villa district	Rheinallee 2 location		Residential and commercial building for pharmacists	New building	Monument protection
1912-1913	Flour	Schlossallee 17		Villa de Fries	New building	Canceled in 1974
1913	Godesberg villa district	Rheinallee 2a location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1913	Godesberg villa district	Rheinallee 28 location		Residential building	New building (client: house building company)	Monument protection
1913	Rüngsdorf	Rüngsdorfer Straße 53/55 location		Office building / studio building Willy Maß	modification
1914	Rüngsdorf	Rheinstrasse 80 location		Boathouse water sports club Godesberg	New building
1914	Godesberg villa district	Rheinallee 47 location		Residential building	New building (client: Willy Maß)	Monument protection; today Restaurant Halbedel's Gasthaus
1916	Alt-Godesberg	Koblenzer Straße 77 location		Residential building	modification	Monument protection
1919	Plittersdorf	Dollendorfer Strasse 15 location	more pictures	Villa Cleff	Conversion and extension (client: F. Berg, hut director)	1951–1999 Embassy of Portugal; Monument protection
1919	Rüngsdorf	Luisenstraße 40 (today Basteistraße)		Villa Kreuser	Reconstruction of the stable and coach house	Canceled in 1973
1919	Rüngsdorf	Luisenstraße 40 (today Basteistraße)		Villa Kreuser	Reconstruction of the stable and coach house	Canceled in 1973
1920-1921	Godesberg villa district	Otto-Kühne-Platz location		Pedagogy Godesberg	Recovery after fire	Monument protection; today Otto Kühne School
1921	Alt-Godesberg	Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 11 location		House for the Bochum association	New building	Monument protection
1921	Godesberg-North	Friesdorfer Straße 131 location		Kleutgen & Meier factory building	extension	later Haribo ; monument value, canceled in 2012
1921	Alt-Godesberg	Koblenzer Straße 81 location		villa	modification	Monument protection
1922	City of Remagen	Deichweg 6 location		Villa Caracciola	modification
1922	Rüngsdorf	Otto-Kühne-Platz 1 formerly Römerstraße 39		Residential building	New building (client: Willy Maß)	Canceled in 1930/32
1922-1923	Alt-Godesberg	Koblenzer Straße 78 formerly Gartenstraße 4 location		Residential building	New building (client: Bankhaus Gebr. David)	since 1970 "Small Theater"; Monument protection
1924	Flour	Mainzer Strasse 533 location	more pictures	Villa Camphausen	extension	until 1999 residence of the embassy of South Korea; Monument protection
1926	Alt-Godesberg	Redoutenpark		Festival stage of the Society for Festival eV	New building (with Willy Gilges)
1927-1930	Plittersdorf	Annetten-, Sibyllen-, Stein-, Weber-, Auerhof-, Hardtstraße location		Settlement of the Maß'schen property company (over 40 houses)	New building
1929	Rüngsdorf	Rheinstrasse 45–49 location	more pictures	Rheinhotel Dreesen	modification
1929	Plittersdorf	Steinstrasse 47 location	more pictures	Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1929	Flour	Mainzer Strasse 251 location		House for manufacturer W. Gummersbach	New building
1929	City of Remagen	Wäßertal 16 location		House on Leims (Villa Kollbach)	New building	1954–1956 Commercial agency for South Korea
1929-1930	Godesberg villa district	Roonstrasse 8 location		General local health insurance fund Bad Godesberg	Extension, facade renovation
1930s	Rüngsdorf	Rolandstrasse 2 location		Catholic parish, kindergarten and residential building	New building	canceled
1930	Plittersdorf	Gotenstrasse location	more pictures	Central cemetery Bad Godesberg : gatehouse, morgue / chapel	New building	Monument protection
1933	Flour	Rüdigerstrasse 33 location		villa	New building	Monument protection
1934	Rüngsdorf	Rheinstrasse 45–49 location		Rheinhotel Dreesen , chestnut garden	Canopy (design: Robert Wahle; execution: Maß)
1934	Alt-Godesberg	Truchseßstrasse 16–22 location		Rental houses for Dr. Franz Simonson Foundation	New building
1936	Godesberg villa district	Rheinallee 1 location		Stadtsparkasse Bad Godesberg	New building (with Robert Wahle)
1937	Alt-Godesberg	Koblenzer Strasse 58 location		Old pharmacy	modification	Monument protection
1937	Flour	Rodderbergstrasse 69 formerly Tannenbergstrasse 69		Residential building	New building
1938	Alt-Godesberg	Moltkestrasse 54		Former Society house "recovery"	Conversion (client: Reichsluftschutzbund )

Remarks

1. ↑ For buildings that no longer exist, the last known address.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst Heidermann : "The sensation of summer in the Rhineland" - Bad Godesberg and its world theater . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 45 (2007), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg, Bad Godesberg 2008, p. 111–152 (here: p. 118 ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc} Horst Heidermann: 100 years of the Deutscher Werkbund: Godesberg traces.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , volume 3, catalog (2). (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
4. ↑ Horstheider man : Godesberger industrial history I . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Heimatpflege und Heimatgeschichte Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 48 (2010), Association for Heimatpflege und Heimatgeschichte Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2011, pp. 96-134 (here: p. 126 ).
5. ↑ Kerstin Kähling: Loosened up and structured: Town and settlement construction in the fifties and early sixties in the provisional federal capital Bonn , city archive and city history library, Bonn 2004, p. 69.
6. ↑ Kerstin Kähling; City of Bonn, City Archives and City History Library (Ed.): Loosened up and structured: City and housing developments in the fifties and early sixties in the provisional federal capital Bonn (= Publications of the Bonn City Archives , Volume 63). Bonn 2004, ISBN 978-3-922832-34-8 , pp. 232/233. (also dissertation University of Cologne, 2001)
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Walter Buschmann: When fruit gum still tasted intensely of fruit: From the founding and development of the Haribo company in Bonn . In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland , ISSN  0177-2619 , Volume 31, 2014, No. 3, pp. 119–122.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Haribo is supposed to pay a fine for demolition , General-Anzeiger , January 18, 2013
9. ^ Small Theater Bad Godesberg , German Theater Directory
10. ^ Andreas Denk , Ingeborg Flagge : Architekturführer Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 118.
11. ↑ Karl Kollbach: "Aktenzeichen 475/39". Own documentary factual report of "then" and "now". A contribution to German self-reflection , book and newspaper printing company H. Köllen, Bonn 1949, p. 22.

literature

• Horst Heidermann : 100 years of the Deutscher Werkbund: Godesberg traces . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 44 (2006), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2007, pp. 77-119.

Web links

Commons : Willy Maß  - Collection of Images