Herman Sörgel wanted to change the face of the planet bringing Europe and Africa together, creating the new continent of Atlantropa.
Imagine a world with futuristic cities and renewable energy in abundance. A civilized world where poverty and war are things of the past. Imagine a world where prosperity, harmony, and peace create a healthy environment for all creatures on the planet. That is the vision of Atlantropa; the vision of Munich architect Herman Sörgel's life-long dream.Herman Sörgel wanted to change the face of the planet bringing Europe and Africa together.
Herman Sörgel's utopian ideas for the society of the future promised solutions to all the major problems of his times. Atlantropa should become a continent of peace with living space and renewable energy in abundance. It was the 1920s. The world was not ready. Almost 10 decades later, is the world ready today? was a pioneering German architect from Bavaria. He was born into a family of architects on April 2, 1885.
Herman Sörgel died at the age of 67, shortly after having been struck by a car while riding his bicycle en route to a lecture at a German university in Munich. According to data collected at the time, the accident happened on a road"as straight as a die," suggesting that he could have been murdered. The driver of the car was never found.
The hydroelectric dam would have provided high hydropower for the whole of Europe. The project was estimated to last for 100 years. Herman Sörgel's idea to lower sea levels would increase the dry land areas around the Mediterranean and provide overland access to Africa. Building a dam in the Congo river would refill the basin surroundingshipping access to the African interior.
Despite generations during and after Herman Sörgel's were excited about it, the project never gained substantial support. On one hand, due to its fantastic scale and Eurocentric expansionism. On the other, under Hitler's Nazi regime, the plan was ridiculed as it was against the idea of a Eurasian German Empire.
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