Hans Klüppelberg (25 May 1904 – 31 May 1962) was a German

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Life

Klüppelberg was born in 1904 in Moscow during the Czarist era, where his father worked as a civil engineer. In 1910, the family first moved to Remscheid, then to Hanover in 1912. There Hans Klüppelberg attended the until his

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in 1922. He then began a commercial apprenticeship, during which a doctor friend discovered Klüppelberg's talent for drawing. Thus, Klüppelberg came into contact with the architect Adolf Falke, who taught him how to draw. During this time, a lifelong fatherly friendship develops between the two men In 1924, Klüppelberg himself began studying architecture at the

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, where he completed his main state examination in 1928. He then worked in various architectural offices for several years until - after the

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by the Nazis - he became self-employed in 1934. In 1939, the year World War II began, Klüppelberg was conscripted into service as an employee at the Heeresbauamt Hannover, but was able to avoid this job after a successful application to the UFA film company in Babelsberg. From then on, he built halls and functional buildings for the German film industry at various locations. During these years under the Nazi regime, Klüppelberg secretly delegated various planning tasks to his former mentor, the architect Adolf Falke, who had in the meantime been banned from the profession and was therefore forced to remain inactive. Although this transfer of work was not visible to the public, the two men were always in danger of being exposed and politically punished by the Nazi regime. After the war, Klüppelberg returned to Hanover in 1945, where he resumed his work as a freelance architect. Even before the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, he was admitted to the

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on 9 January 1947 (BDA). Klüppelberg soon also worked as a member of the "expert-(

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" of the state capital of Hanover. Klüppelberg died in Hanover at the age of 58.

Constructions

Theater am Aegi theater Aegidientorplatz Hannover Germany

* 1953, with Ernst Huhn and

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Theater am Aegi The Theater am Aegi is an event venue on Aegidientorplatz square in Hannover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Like the square, it is often referred to as Aegi. The building was opened in 1953 mainly as a cinema, with a versatile stage also ...

. * 1954: ** ''Schünemannbau'' at Kröpcke ** 20 April: Opening of the Maschseegaststätte, previously released by the

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and then rebuilt and extended by Gerd Lichtenhahn and Klüppelberg.

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on ''Google-Bücher'' * 1955: ** Mietswohnhäuser ''Riepestraße 1 - 8'' and '' Hildesheimer Straße 220/212'' (with Gerd Lichtenhahn). ** with Gerd Lichtenhahn: three-storey commercial building in the . * 1956: ** Unmarried people's home of the Sozialwerk der Bauhandwerker (Social Association of Building Craftsmen), "Haltenhoffstraße 226". ** Commercial building ''Jo Schmidt'', ''Kurt-Schumacher-Straße'' Ecke ''Goseriede'' ** with Gerd Lichtenhahn: Administrative building of the , ''Volgersweg'' Ecke ''Hinüberstraße''. * 1959: Retirement home ''Am Mittelfeld 100''. * different

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kluppelberg, Hans 20th-century German architects Architects from Hanover 1904 births 1962 deaths