Herbert Hirche

Herbert Hirche (20 May 1910 in Görlitz – 28 January 2002 in Heidelberg) was a German architect and furniture and product designer.

Herbert Hirche studied from 1930 to 1933 at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin. His teachers included, Wassily Kandinsky and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. From 1934 to 1938, he worked in Mies van der Rohe's office in Berlin, until his boss emigrated to the United States. It was in the Soviet Occupied Zone of Berlin. Hirche moved to West Germany and from 1952 to 1975, he took an appointment at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart as Professor of Interior Design and Furniture Making.

Hirche's work was also shown at national and international fairs and exhibitions. These include the Milan Triennale in 1957 and Expo 58, the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. In 1964, examples of his works were shown on the documenta III in Kassel in Industrial Design.

He died in Heidelberg in 2002, aged 91.