Adolf Schmetzer

Adolf Schmetzer (born March 5, 1854 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 4, 1943 in Regensburg ) was a German civil engineer , municipal senior building officer and head of the municipal building department in Regensburg, and a local researcher .

Act

Adolf Schmetzer worked successfully as a civil engineer in Regensburg from 1880 and was a member of the building committee there for decades. From 1897 to 1921 he headed the Regensburg city planning department, first until 1903 under mayor Oscar von Stobäus, then under mayors Hermann Geib , Alfons Auer and Otto Geßler and was involved in the general development plan of the city. He wrote several essays on the history of the city and especially on the history of the building and architecture of Regensburg.

Albrecht Altdorfer High School

Pestalozzi School

Buildings

1892–1894: Albrecht-Altdorfer-Gymnasium Regensburg ; Angular three-storey hipped roof building with corner pavilions and gable from the Neo-Renaissance period
1901: Former August school, now the justice building, Augustenstrasse 5, Westenviertel ; Two-wing and four-storey, articulated hipped roof building with a tower-like structure and a dwarf with a tail gable, a two-storey gym with a roof gallery attached to the side
1902–1903: Schwibbogen-like bridging structure at the former Amberger Stadel to the Brückentorturm, Brückstraße 2, center
1903: Former municipal girls' college, St.-Peters-Weg 17, designed in Art Nouveau style with the help of Paul Bonatz .
1909: Design of the former municipal gas works, today REWAG, Greflingerstraße 22, Ostenviertel ; Execution by Karl Frank
1910: Planning of the Upper Palatinate District Exhibition together with Max Schultze - exhibition halls, Regensburg City Park complex .
1914: Pestalozzischule ( Pestalozzistraße 3 ), barracks district ; four-storey two-wing system with hipped roofs, set clock tower with tent roof

Honors

1924: Silver citizen medal of the city of Regensburg
Naming of Adolf-Schmetzer-Strasse in Regensburg

Web links

Commons : Adolf Schmetzer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by Adolf Schmetzer in the Bavarian Bibliography
Literature by Adolf Schmetzer in the database of the cooperative library network Berlin-Brandenburg

Individual evidence

^ Adolf-Schmetzer-Strasse. In: Street directory , City of Regensburg, p. 105; As of December 7, 2015.
↑ Dieter Albrecht: Regensburg im Wandel, studies on the history of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Museums and Archives of the City of Regensburg (Hrsg.): Studies and sources on the history of Regensburg . tape 2 . Mittelbayerische Verlags-Gesellschaft mbH, Regensburg 1984, ISBN 3-921114-11-X , p. 194 .
^ Silver Citizen Medal , City of Regensburg; accessed on August 7, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Schmetzer, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil engineer, senior building officer in Regensburg and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	April 4, 1943
Place of death	regensburg

[1] Adolf-Schmetzer-Strasse. In: Street directory , City of Regensburg, p. 105; As of December 7, 2015.

[Alb-2] Dieter Albrecht: Regensburg im Wandel, studies on the history of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Museums and Archives of the City of Regensburg (Hrsg.): Studies and sources on the history of Regensburg . tape 2 . Mittelbayerische Verlags-Gesellschaft mbH, Regensburg 1984, ISBN 3-921114-11-X , p. 194 .

[3] Silver Citizen Medal , City of Regensburg; accessed on August 7, 2017.