Wolfram von Erffa

Wolfram Hartmann Freiherr von Erffa (* December 22, 1901 ; † December 20, 1980 in Ahorn (Coburg district) ) was a German architect and building historian .

Life

family

Born at the time of the German Empire , Wolfram von Erffa came from the noble family of the Barons von Erffa . His parents were Gotthard Hartmann Freiherr von Erffa (born April 22, 1862 in Ahorn; † August 27, 1910) and Mathilde , nee Freiin von Künßberg (born June 3, 1872 in Wernstein ; † August 23, 1925 in Naumburg). He was the younger brother of Eberhard Karl Hartmann, Freiherr von Erffa (June 30, 1898 in Lüneburg ; † in Romania (?)) And of Helmut Hartmann Otto Maximilian, Freiherr von Erffa (* March 1, 1900 in Lüneburg; † 17. February 1979 in Piscataway , New Jersey, USA ).

Career

At the time of the Weimar Republic , von Erffa married Mascha (actually Martha ) Agnes Luz (born February 28, 1896; † June 15, 1980) in Stuttgart in 1929, almost six years his senior .

Also in Stuttgart, von Erffa studied architecture at what was then the Technical University , where he wrote his 1937 dissertation The village church as a fortification with examples from Württemberg during the Nazi era in 1936 .

The Spittahaus at Burgstrasse 23, which was moved by von Erffa in 1938 , as part of the border of the Ballhofplatz

Only a little later Wolfram von Erffa started working as an architect in Hanover : After the city of Hanover acquired the Ballhof there in 1936 and demolished the houses in front of it to create the (today's) forecourt Ballhofplatz , the newly laid out square in front of the was built according to plans by von Erffa Ballhof summarized by an assembly group: On the left in front of the Ballhof - using the half-timbered houses of demolished houses - the former home of the Hitler Youth ; to the right of the Ballhof the converted so-called Spittahaus for use as the home of the Association of German Girls .

After the Second World War , von Erffa published other writings, for example on fortified churches in Upper Franconia (see literature).

Wolfram von Erffa died in Ahorn in 1980 a few months after the death of his wife.

Fonts

The village church as a fortification with examples from Württemberg (= depictions of Württemberg history , vol. 28), 49 pages with illustrations, Stuttgart, 1937
- Unchanged reprint under the title The village church as a fortification. With examples from Württemberg , Frankfurt / Main: Weidlich, 1980, ISBN 3-8035-1057-0
Fortified churches in Upper Franconia (= Die Plassenburg , Vol. 11), 94 pages with illustrations by the author, Kulmbach: Baumann, 1956
The community center in western Upper Franconia (= The German community center , vol. 27), Tübingen: Wasmuth, 1977, ISBN 3-8030-0029-7

literature

Obituary Wolfram von Erffa , in: Yearbook for House Research. Report on the meeting of the working group for house research , vol. 31, Münster 1981, p. 338

Archival material

An archive of and Wolfram von Erffa be found, for example,

Documents from the period from 1924 to 1935 as bequests from Hildegard von Trotha (née von Erffa), Jörg, Rudi and Wolfram von Erffa zu Wernburg to Axel and Natascha Varnbuler in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives , Department of the Main State Archives Stuttgart . Signature P 10 Bü 1172

Web links

Commons : Wolfram von Erffa - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wolfram von Erffa in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Compare the information and cross-references on the geneall.net page , last accessed on June 19, 2016
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Anita Eichholz: Pictures of life from Siethen and Wernstein , Berlin: epubli GmbH, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8442-8441-6 and ISBN 978-3-8442-6499-9 and ISBN 978-3-8442- 7442-4 , p. 436; online through google books
↑ ^a ^b Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (eds.), Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Ballhofplatz 5 and Burgstraße 23 , In: Hannover. Art and culture lexicon . Handbook and city guide. 4th, updated and expanded edition. zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 89f., 97
↑ ^a ^b Compare, for example, the information from the German National Library
↑ Archive of the Barons Varnbuler from and to Hemmingen >> I. Fief and Estate Archive >> 9th Family Archive >> 9.2. Individual family members >> (Theodor Maria Julius Albert Alfred) Axel Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen, Dr. jur. (* January 10, 1851 - + February 8, 1937) >> 11. Correspondence

personal data
SURNAME	Erffa, Wolfram von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Erffa, Wolfram Hartmann Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect and building historian
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1901
DATE OF DEATH	20th December 1980
Place of death	Ahorn (district of Coburg)

[geneall-1] Compare the information and cross-references on the geneall.net page , last accessed on June 19, 2016

[Lebensbilder-2] Anita Eichholz: Pictures of life from Siethen and Wernstein , Berlin: epubli GmbH, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8442-8441-6 and ISBN 978-3-8442-6499-9 and ISBN 978-3-8442- 7442-4 , p. 436; online through google books

[HKuKL-3] Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (eds.), Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Ballhofplatz 5 and Burgstraße 23 , In: Hannover. Art and culture lexicon . Handbook and city guide. 4th, updated and expanded edition. zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 89f., 97

[DNB-4] Compare, for example, the information from the German National Library

[5] Archive of the Barons Varnbuler from and to Hemmingen >> I. Fief and Estate Archive >> 9th Family Archive >> 9.2. Individual family members >> (Theodor Maria Julius Albert Alfred) Axel Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen, Dr. jur. (* January 10, 1851 - + February 8, 1937) >> 11. Correspondence