Rudolf Hildebrand (architect)

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Rudolf Hildebrand (* 20th May 1886 in God Bichl in Klagenfurt , † thirtieth May 1947 ) was an in Czechoslovakia acting Austrian architect.

Portrait of Rudolf Hildebrand 1919

Life

His father was August Hildebrand (1854–1942) from Vienna, from 1883 a farmer at Gut Grabenhof in Gottesbichl near Klagenfurt, his mother was Emma nee. Meyer (1864–1955) from Lüneburg.

After completing his first degree in architecture in Graz, he worked as a one-year volunteer with the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger . He then continued his studies in Munich with the teachers Paul Thiersch , Carl Hocheder and above all Theodor Fischer and graduated in 1911. He then worked in the architectural offices of Otho Orlando Kurz in Munich and Max Wöhler in Düsseldorf. From May 1913 he was a private assistant to Professor Karl Jaray at the German Technical University in Prague. At the beginning of the war in 1914 he registered for the volunteer cycling battalion in Graz, came to the Russian front as a first lieutenant and was then deployed on the Isonzo front and in the Pala group in Tyrol after Italy entered the war . In July 1918 he was released from military service, obtained by Karl Jaray for his work on a pulmonary hospital project.

Now he was again a private assistant at the chair of Prof. Jaray and atelier boss in his architecture office for a period of eight years. The main clients were the Böhmische Escomptebank and the Prague branches of the Vienna Creditanstalt and Anglobank. The plans were to renovate the headquarters and set up branches in eleven provincial towns such as B. Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) and Ústí nad Labem (Aussig), also the glossy fabric factory in Lovosice (Lobositz), the central building of Julius Meinl AG and the Kubinzky textile factory in Prague and the manor house of the Porak pulp mill in Loučovice (Kienberg). Rudolf Hildebrand worked on many of these projects, took over the construction management of the Prague buildings and visited the provincial buildings. This gave him a great deal of experience in detailed planning and in drawing up reliable estimates of construction costs.

In 1919 he married Else geb. Schedlbauer (1892–1973), who came from a German family in Prague. The two sons from this marriage are:

  • Hannes Hildebrand (* 1920 in Prague), who took over the Grabenhof in 1942 from his deceased grandfather and lives there.
  • Ernst Rudolf Hildebrand (* 1923 in Prague; † January 13, 2019), architect in Klagenfurt from 1956, he lived in Karnburg near Klagenfurt.

When Karl Jaray moved his center of life to Vienna in 1926, Rudolf Hildebrand took over his architectural office, the termination of the current orders as well as some employees. Now he worked as a freelance architect with Austrian citizenship and his professional seat in Prague in Czechoslovakia. In the years 1928 to 1932 there was another collaboration with Karl Jaray on the project of the Bohemian Escompte-Bank and Credit-Anstalt am Graben in Prague. The construction management was carried out by Rudolf Hildebrand. In 1938 he went on a lecture tour in Denmark about the technical organization of this major bank.

His work as a freelance architect lasted until the end of the war in May 1945, when he had to leave Prague with his son Ernst to go to Bavaria because of the political situation. Ill with tuberculosis , he wrote in UNRRA -Sanatorium in Amberg from memory his memoirs and returned to his birthplace in God Bichl, where he died 1947th

buildings

For the architecture firm Jaray

As part of his work for the architecture firm Jaray, Hildebrand participated in various conversions and the establishment of branches of the Böhmische Escomptebank, the Wiener Kreditanstalt and the Anglobank from 1918 to 1926, as well as in the following building projects:

  • Luster factory in Lovosice
  • Central building of Julius Meinl AG Prague
  • Kubinzky textile factory Prague
  • Porak mansion in Kienberg

As a freelance architect

As a freelance architect in Prague, he received the following commissions between 1926 and 1939:

  • Branches in Benešov and Beroun for the Agricultural Credit Bank
  • For the Sellier & Bellot company: administration building and later workshops and offices; Enlargement of the boiler house
  • Branch in Česká Kamenice for Escompte-Bank and Credit-Anstalt, designed in the style of Jaray
  • Extension of the branch building in Karlsbad
  • Expansion of the Bohemian luster factory built by Jaray in Lovosice in 1924 ; Extension of the shed systems and new boiler house
  • "Julius Meinl AG": Extension of the central building (partly warehouse, partly operating room)
  • Villa for the widow of Union Bank director Rulf on the Hřebenka in Smíchov
  • Delicatessen shop Josef Lippert in the house "Zur Schwarzen Rose" on Graben in Prague as a renovation (structurally complex project)

  • Dining room Lippert - design drawing

  • Lippert sales room - Photo around 1930 - Atelier Mayer

  • Riedel's glass factory in Polubný (Polaun) near Gablonz (Walther and Arno Riedel): redesign of the residential building, new equipment
  • Adaptation of the "Altes Ungelt" hotel near the Tyn Church in Prague
  • Small work in the Horšovský Týn Castle in the Bohemian Forest, owned by Prince Trautmannsdorf
  • Villa for Mr. Fiedler in Krč near Prague
  • Villa for Friedl Ritter in Komotau
  • House of the doctor couple Pokorny: Extension for doctor's practice with extensive X-ray system
  • 1928 to 1932 new building of the Bohemian Escompte-Bank and Credit-Anstalt am Graben in Prague (na příkopě), next to the Powder Tower, joint project Hildebrand-Jaray. (The architects Sakař, Gotthilf and Neumann were consulted in the project phase between building permit and implementation planning for processing)

  • Bohemian Escompte-Bank and Credit-Anstalt - map

  • Escompte Bohemian Bank and Credit Institution, Praha 1, Na příkopě 33, 1930–1932

  • Prague People's Housing Association: Housing complex with 80 apartments on the corner of Kostelní-Kamenická in Prague
  • Apartment building in Ústí nad Labem for the siblings Ernst and Gottfried Schedlbauer, Gertrud Steinert
  • Villa for the chocolate manufacturer René Kluge in Prague - Smíchov
  • Villa Glaser in Žatec (Saaz)
  • Villa Weiss (Telatko) in Žatec (Saaz)

  • Villa Glaser in Saaz

  • Villa Telatko in Saaz

Self-employed from 1940 to 1945:

  • Reconstruction of ETA GmbH in Vršovice , precision mechanical-optical factory
  • New construction and conversion for "Askania Feingetriebe-Bau GmbH"
  • Building for the Optical Apparatus Factory "Srb & Stys"
  • Buildings for "Walter AG", a factory for aircraft engines
  • New building for the TEBAS AG paint factory in Vysočany
  • Assembly group for German schools in Smíchov
  • Settlement with small apartments
  • Idea project for the northern city of Prague

literature

  • FORUM V No 5/6 1935, special edition "The new building of the Bohemian Escompte-Bank and Credit-Anstalt in Prague" with photos by De Sandalo in the amount of 8 pages
  • Separate print from BYGMESTEREN Dansk Arkitektforenings Tidsskrift, January 1938 Author: Architect Rudolf K. Hildebrand, GDA Prague

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Hildebrand  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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Legacies and Archives:

  • Architekturzentrum Wien, architectural dictionary: Karl Jaray
  • Architekturzentrum Wien, "The technical organism in the new building of the Bohemian Escompte Bank and Credit Institution in Prague" by Dipl.-Ing. Rudolf K. Hildebrand, architect GDA Prague, approx. 1936. Hardcover unpubl. Concept, 215 pages, with numerous photos and plan reductions.
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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.architektur-aktuell.at/news/ernst-hildebrand-1923-2019
personal data
SURNAME Hildebrand, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Gottesbichl near Klagenfurt
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1947
Place of death Gottesbichl