Hermann Muthesius (1861-1927) Architect

Hermann Muthesius was a German architect. From 1896 to 1903 he lived in England, because of this he was influenced by the ideas of William Morris. In Germany, he became one of the main representatives of the Jugendstil, a direction characterized by stylized forms. He realized important buildings and many houses. But more important were his writings. And he founded in 1907 at the Deutsche Werkbund.

Main buildings
Bernhard home in Wilmersdorf, Berlin (1906).
Cramer house in Zehlendorf, Berlin (1913)
Funk station Nauen (1917-1919).
Key publications
Stilarchitektur und Baukunst (1902)
Das englische Haus (1904)
Who Baue ich mein Haus (1915)
Kleinhuis und Kleinsiedlung (1920)

Walter Michaelis (1866-1853) Chemist

Walter Michaelis was a German chemist who mainly sought solutions to problems in respect of cement and mortars. He analyzed the manufacture and processing. An inspection of the mortar belonged to it. He is best known as the person who confronted the theory of Le Chatelier in respect crystallization processes that occur in the setting and hardening of the mortar.

Walter came in 1890 with a colloïdechemische theory, in which he argued that arise from the cement clinker colloid solutions, gel and dry out. The name Michaelis is also known by the bacillus of Michaelis, the most dangerous enemy of cement in seawater. This is contested by Candlotsell (Caliumsulfoaluminaat with 3oH2O).

Alfred Messel (1853-1909) Architect

Alfred Messel was a German architect. In Italy, he studied to see the Renaissance, this is evident in his first realizations. Later, he created his own style, which first manifested itself in the Wertheim Department Store in Berlin, he applied this to the pillar construction, a construction method that has be imitated many times after this realisation.

Main achievements
Wertheim department store in Berlin (1896-1900).
The Cohn Palace in Dessau.
Buildings of the Berliner Handelsgesellschaft der Nationalbank für Deutschland in Berlin.
Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft buildings in Berlin.
Infants device Auguste-Viktoria Haus in Berlin.
Landes Museum in Darmstadt, the first museum of modern requirements.
Decorate the throne room of the German embassy building in Rome.
Decorating for the meeting of the Prussian Ministry.

Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) Architect

Erich Mendelsohn was an architect born in Germany. He was a representative of the expressionist architecture. He realized many cinemas, shops and factories. In 1935 he went to Palestine and realized important buildings. In 1938 he moved to England and became English citizen. At the beginning of World War II, he settled in the United States where he built a number of Synagogues and Churches.

Main achievements
Einstein Tower observatory in Potsdam (1921).
Spinning in Luckenwalde (1921).
Hebrew University in Palestine.
Medical Center in Palestine.
De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, along with Chermayeff.
Maimonides Hospital in San Francisco.
Park Synagogue in Cleveland.

Ernst May (1886-1970) Architect

Ernst May was a German architect. He studied in Munich and London. From 1925 to 1930 he was city architect in Frankfurt. He did a great merit for the new building plans: He reserved the center for business houses while there were outside garden villages on the outside. He also did much to improve the housing, so he designed housing construction in series, in and did many improvements in hygiene.

Main achievements
Tuindorp Praunheim (1927).
Tuindorp Romerstadt (1928).
Schools pavilion.

Clemens Klotz (1886-1969) Architect

Clemens Klotz was a German architect.

NS Ordenburg Vogelsang

He first realized many homes in his hometown Cologne.
When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, Clements Klotz was recorded, in the circle of 'Vertrauensarchitekten of DAF. He created large projects that served for the martial arts.

Main achievements
House Regierungsrat Dr. Rhein Dorff, Köln-Marienburg (1922)
Heckmann house in Cologne-Marienburg (1923).
Director Property Farbwerke Hosfelt in Cologne-Braunsfeld (1923).
House Sauerwald house in Cologne-Lindenthal, along with Fielth (1924-1925).
Klotz house in Cologne-Marienburg (1925).
Youth for the Catholic Church Community St. Anna in Cologne-Ehrenfeld (1925)
Youth for the Catholic Church Community St. Joseph in Cologne-Braunsfeld (1925-1926).
Hochpfortenhaus in Cologne together with Fieth (1930).
NS Ordensburg Vogelsang in Bauabschnitt (1933-1935) (military barracks).
NS Ordensburg Crössinsee in Bauabschnitt (1934-1936) (military barracks).
KdF-Seebad Prora Hotel in Rügen (1935-1939).
Residential and retail Neumarkt in Cologne (1952).

Albert Kahn (1869-1942) Architect

Albert Kahn was an architect born in Germany who moved to America and worked there since 1881. He built mainly factories. As he worked his First Five Year Plan in Russia (from 1928 untill 1931).

Main achievements
Dodge factory in Detroit (1938).
The 'Lincoln Mercury division of the Ford Motor Cy in St. Louis.
Building for General Motors Cy in Ohio.

Fritz Höger (1877-1949) Architect

Fritz Höger was a German architect. He built mainly in northern and central Germany. He applied many of his works with a brick construction. His buildings are distinguished by a simple, clear style.

Main achievements
Chilehaus in Hamburg (1924).
Lyceum in Hamburg (1927).
Der Hannoversche Anzeiger building in Hanover 1927).

Ludwig Hoffmann (1852-1932) Architect

Ludwig Hoffmann was a German architect. He worked in Leipzig. In 1896 he was appointed as a city architect in Berlin, where he designed a number of large buildings in different styles.

Main achievements
The Reichsgerichtsgebäude in Leipzig (1895).
Virchow-Hospital (1899-1906).
Märkische Provinzial Museum (1901-1907).
Berlin City Hall (1902-1911).

Karl von Grossheim (1841-199) Architect

Karl von Grossheim was a German architect.

Alfred Fischer (1881-1950) Architect

Alfred Fischer was a German architect and assistant of Ludwig Hoffman and Schultze-Naumburg. Alfred Fischer was also director of the Kunstgewerbeschule in Essen since 1911. He was one of the representatives that managed a new direction that uses new materials such as iron and glass, to create new opportunities. He's speciality were factory buildings, including the buildings for the mining of Saxony in Hamm, and many houses.

Main buildings
Mine buildings for Sachsen Hamm (1932).
Hans-Sachs-Haus in Gelsenkirchen.
Catholic church in Ickern (1925).
Water Tower and analyse Building in Zeche Mont Cenis (1912-1913).
Mine building for Pit Emil Zeche Königin Elisabeth in Essen Frillendorf (1913).
Mine building for Zeche Sachsen I / II in Hamm-Heessen (1912-1914).
Patriotic monument in the forest of Essen-Bredeney (1913).
Power Plant 'Vorgebirgszentrale' Hurth-Knapsack (1913-1914).
Pumping station 'Alte Emscher' for Emschergenossenschaft (Emscher Cooperative) (1914).
Volkshaus Rotthausen in Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen (1919-1920).
Key House in Essen-Bredeney (1922-1923).
The house of Alfred Fischer Essen-Bredeney (1922-1923).
Office building for AG Hüttenbetrieb (1923-1925).
Parish Church of St. Anthony in Castrop-Rauxel-Ickern (1924-1925).
Hans-Sachs-Haus (Office building with shops, concert hall and hotel) in Gelsenkirchen (1924-1927).
Pickup tower for the mine Zeche Königsborn Pit III / I in Altenbögge (Bönen) (1924-1929).
Sachsse House in Essen-Bredeney (1926-1927).
Pump Station and smelter for Emschergenossenschaft in Duisburg-Hamborn-Schwelgern (1927).
Imhoff House in Essen (1927-1928).
Home of Richard Hesseberg Bredeny in Essen (1928).
Office building for the 'Siedlungsverband Ruhrkohlenbezirk (Ruhr Regional Association) in Esen (1929).
The Lyseum Essen-Bredeney (1929-1930), today a High School.
Horse track in Essen (1932).

Emil Fahrenkamp (1885-1966) Architect

Emil Fahrenkamp was a German architect who designed buildings in the new business style.

Main achievements
Industrial and office buildings of the Rhein Stahlwerke in several cities (1921-1923).
Hotels and concert hall in Düsseldorf (1925).
I. G. Farben buildings in Leverkusen (1930-1932).
Shellhaus in Berlin (1930-1932).
Building for the League of Nations in Geneva (1927), with this design Emil Fahrenkamp acquired a first prize.

Martin Düifer (1859-1942) Architect

Martin Düifer was a German architect who had worked in Munich from 1892.
His early designs were mainly in the Renaissance style. Eventually he made an own building style that had a businesslike style. Martin was one of the first modern architects with hus own style.

Important works
Building for the Allgemeine Zeitung in Munich (1901)
Theatre in Dortmund (1904)

Paul Bonatz (1877-1956) Architect

Paul Bonatz was a German architect.

Known realistaties
City of Stuttgart (1922) with F. Scholer.
Locks in Mannheim (1926).

Peter Behrens (1868) Architect

This was a German architect and one of the innovators of architecture and carried out pioneering the new, aspiring to objectivity direction. He was particularly active in the field of commercial construction. So many factories were designed by him. As his most famous achievement is a commercial building for AEG in Berlin, in 1910 he designed along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. And for Höchst a / M. In 1923 he designed a very important building.

Other buildings designed by Peter Behrens
Crematorium in Delstern (1907)
A building for the German legation in St. Petersburg (1912)
Exhibition Building in Bern (1916)
Office buildings

He was also involved, as a designer, with the distribution of utensils needed to be done. He even designed a business clock for A.E.G. called the Behrens-Watch.

Dipl. Ing. Prof. W. Büning

W. Büning worked at the Institut für Tageslicht Technology in Berlin-Grunewald. Büning put together with Prof. Dr. Ing. W. Arndt (dir. Photometric department of the German Philips GmbH) a methodology to determine the desirable window openings in living areas with a view to the entry of daylight.

In 1953, Büning published the results of an examination for a new series in the field of natural light in living quarters. As he described in his "Fortschritte Forschungen und im Bauwesen, Series D Heft 10' a new method to determine the size of window openings.

His colleague Arndt also published a method to determine window openings taking into account the incoming natural light (daylight calculations). This reference book was published in 'Lichttechnik July 1951'.