(b Halberstadt, 10 May 1907). German architect. He studied at the Technische Hochschule in Brunswick and in Vienna until 1929. After holding an assistant lectureship at Brunswick University, he worked as an independent architect from 1935. In 1945 he was appointed Chief of Planning in Brunswick, and from 1946 to 1974 he held the chair of Architectural Theory and Design at the city’s Technische Hochschule. Following the post-war reconstruction, when there were many commissions for residential and school buildings, Kraemer’s activity focused on the construction of offices and administrative buildings; his practice exercised a decisive influence on the development of this field in Germany. His works from the 1950s were particularly influential on the next generation of architects: these included plans for the Constructa exhibition, Hannover (1951); the Flebbe office (1950) and shop building (1958), Brunswick; the workshop building (1952, 1955–6) for the firm Francke & Heidecke, Brunswick; the Handelsschule (1956), Heidelberg; and the administrative building for the Unterharz Mining and Foundry Works (1958–9), Goslar. The buildings are characterized by clear cubic forms, a skeletal mode of construction, glass façades, strict constructional grids, variable interior divisions and an absence of ornamentation.

• Kraemer, Friedrich Wilhelm
  • Strizic, Zdenko