There is his signature on the skyline of the city of Berlin: Who is Hermann Jansen?
Jansen also made a name for himself internationally, for example, with the urban planning of Madrid and by winning the international competition on the design of the new capital Ankara, opened by the Turkish government in 1928.
Born on May 28, 1869, in Aachen, Germany, Hermann Jansen studied architecture at the Aachen Technical College.
He worked mainly as a freelance urban planner. Meanwhile, he became one of the publishers of the architecture magazine "Der Baumeister".
He prepared general or partial development plans for many German cities, including Berlin, Cologne, and Nuremberg.
Hermann Jansen; He worked as a side job at the Prussian Academy of Arts, was active on the Urban Planning Advisory Board at the Prussian Ministry of Public Works, and was a member of the Berlin Architects' Association and the German Architects' Association.
Hermann Jansen (28 May 1869 in Aachen – 20 February 1945 in Berlin) was a German architect, urban planner and university educator. Jansen was among the planners who submitted a comprehensive plan for a Greater Berlin, and when the competition closed in 1910 his was awarded equal first place. Jansen's proposal, later dubbed "The Jansen-plan" stood as the first comprehensive plan ever to be commissioned for Greater Berlin.
He also worked as an honorary professor of urban planning at the Technical University Berlin-Charlottenburg.
In a competition on the urban development of Berlin initiated in 1908, Hermann Jansen won one of the two first prizes in 1910.
Even today, Jansen's implemented ideas can be found in the skyline of the city of Berlin, for example in Berlin-Dahlem.
Jansen also made a name for himself internationally, for example, with the urban planning of Madrid and by winning the international competition on the design of the new capital Ankara, opened by the Turkish government in 1928.
As the first foreign urban planner operating in Turkey, Hermann Jansen left his mark on the appearance of many cities beyond Ankara.
Although his plans could be implemented until 1932, he remained in Turkey until 1938.
Apart from Ankara, he created plans in Izmit, Gaziantep-Mersin, Ceyhan-Tarsus and Adana. Hermann Jansen died on February 20, 1945 in Berlin, Germany.