Hanns Hopp

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Hanns Hopp (9 February 1890 - 21 February 1971) was a German architect.

He was born in Lübeck and studied in Karlsruhe and Munich. From 1918 he was employed as an architect for the local authorities in Königsberg, from 1920 for the Deutsche Ostmesse. From 1926 he worked as a private architect in Königsberg.

He is the architect of several major public and private buildings erected in Königsberg in the 1920s under the supreme mayor, Hans Lohmeyer, including:

  • The airport at Königsberg Devau (1921)
  • The Handelshof (1922-1923)
  • The "Haus der Technik" (1924-1925)
  • The Park Hotel, Königsberg (1930-1931)

In 1944 Hopp left Königsberg and settled in Dresden. He continued his professional career in the German Democratic Republic. Between 1952 and 1966 he was President of the Deutsche Bauakademie. He died in 1971 in East Berlin.

Several of the buildings erected in Königsberg after drafts by Hanns Hopp still exist.

The main building of the Airport at Königsberg Devau is partly in use for the Kaliningrad Sport Aviation Club.

The Park Hotel is among the few pre-war German buildings, which have survived in the surrounding of the former Castle Pond (Schlossteich). In Kaliningrad today, however, the former hotel is used by a business enterprise.

The ruin of the former "Haus der Technik" was rebuilt in the late 1990s and currently in use as a business center.

Image:Park Hotel Königsberg 1999.JPG Image:Handelshof Königsberg 2006.JPG Image:Devau main building 2006.JPG
The former Park Hotel in Kaliningrad in 1999 The former Handelshof in Königsberg was rebuilt after the War and has been housing the local government of the Kaliningrad Region, photo in May 2006 The main building of the former Airport Königsberg in Devau in May 2006

[edit] Literature

Gabriele Wiesemann (Ed.): Hanns Hopp, Ein Architekt in Ostpreußen, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-7861-1835-3

Gabriele Wiesemann: Hanns Hopp: 1890-1971, Schwerin 1999. ISBN 3-931185-61-3

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