Rudolf Friedrich Heinrich HILLEBRECHT

Background

HILLEBRECHT, Rudolf Friedrich Heinrich was born on February 26, 1910 in Hanover. Son of Ernst and Bertha (nee Aiming) Hillebrecht.

Education

Humanistisches Gymnasium, Hanover, and Teehnische Hochschulen, Hanover and Berlin.

Career

Worked with Walter Gropius, Berlin 1933-1934. Building Inspector, Travemunde, Hamburg and Hanover 37. Office Manager, architectural practice of Konstanty Gutschow, Hamburg 1937-1945.

Worked in Department, for Replanning of Hamburg 1937-1944.

Army Service 1944-1945. Worked with Werner Kallmorgen, Hamburg 194546.

Deputy Chief, Building Division, British Occupied Zone 1946. Secretary for Building Affairs, German Advisory Council of British Zone 1946-1948.

Municipal Town Planner and Architect, City of Hanover 1948-1975.

President Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesellschaft 1969-1985. President German Academy, for Town and Country Planning 1973-1979, and other organisations. Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stem und Schulterband, and many other decorations.

Honorary Citizen of Hanover 1980.

Interests

• Arts, literature, music

Connections

Married 1st Ruth Frommhold in 1937, 2nd Oxana Saweljewa in 1967.