Adolf Steiner (architect)

Adolf Steiner (born June 29, 1875 , † December 4, 1944 in Heilbronn ) was a German hydraulic engineering technician and architect.

At the beginning of the 20th century, he worked together with Emil Beutinger in the studio Beutinger & Steiner , where arts and crafts objects, wallpapers, etc. were also designed. Darmstadt and Heilbronn are sometimes given as the location of the studio . In a letterhead from 1910, the locations Heilbronn and Darmstadt are still indicated, but only two telephone numbers in Heilbronn and none in Darmstadt. In this letterhead, Beutinger & Steiner describe their company as a “special office for factory buildings”. In the later years Heilbronn and Stuttgart are specified as the headquarters of the architecture office.

The house of the commercial gardener Grimm in Bietigheim around 1910

For almost a decade, Beutinger & Steiner were very active; their buildings were regularly presented in relevant publications. A number of preserved buildings by the team of architects from this period are now listed.

After this office community was dissolved, Adolf Steiner continued to work as an architect in Heilbronn. When exactly Beutinger and Steiner parted, it seems no longer possible to determine, but Beutinger's appointment to the arts and crafts school in Wiesbaden and the First World War probably brought about decisive changes. In a planning application from 1927 (signature A034-3079 in the Heilbronn city archive), which refers to buildings at Lohtorstrasse 33 and Lammgasse 2 in Heilbronn, Steiner appears as the sole architect, but the old company name Beutinger & Steiner can still be found in these files which was subsequently changed by a stamp.

Like his wife Paula and his daughter Gerda, born in 1908, Steiner was killed in the air raids on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944. The family lived at Karlstrasse 8 in Heilbronn at the time.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Heilbronn war victims 1939-1945. Compiled from the “Heilbronn City Memorial Book” published in the spring of 1955 by the Heilbronn city administration. In autumn 1994 Rolf Palm reorganized according to city districts and streets, taking into account all addenda from the registry office until July 1994 , November 1994 (= online publications of the Heilbronn City Archives 25), p. 136 ( online )
↑ As such he signed z. B. Construction files for buildings at Hammelwasen 33 and 34 in Heilbronn. The files are under the signature A034-1703 in the Heilbronn city archive.
↑ Julius Fekete et al., Stadtkreis Heilbronn (= State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg I. 5. ), Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , p. 275 Deviating from the list of Heilbronn war victims, the year of birth is 1879.
^ Letterhead from 1910 in the Heilbronn City Archives
↑ In the Schweizerische Bauzeitung 61, 1913, p. 262, the location “Heilbronn und Stuttgart” can be found after the company information Beutinger & Steiner , in the Baumeister 12, 1914, p. 55 the version “Stuttgart-Heilbronn” can be found.

personal data
SURNAME	Steiner, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German hydraulic engineer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH	June 29, 1875
DATE OF DEATH	4th December 1944
Place of death	Heilbronn

[Opfer-1] Heilbronn war victims 1939-1945. Compiled from the “Heilbronn City Memorial Book” published in the spring of 1955 by the Heilbronn city administration. In autumn 1994 Rolf Palm reorganized according to city districts and streets, taking into account all addenda from the registry office until July 1994 , November 1994 (= online publications of the Heilbronn City Archives 25), p. 136 ( online )

[2] As such he signed z. B. Construction files for buildings at Hammelwasen 33 and 34 in Heilbronn. The files are under the signature A034-1703 in the Heilbronn city archive.

[3] Julius Fekete et al., Stadtkreis Heilbronn (= State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg I. 5. ), Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , p. 275 Deviating from the list of Heilbronn war victims, the year of birth is 1879.

[4] Letterhead from 1910 in the Heilbronn City Archives

[5] In the Schweizerische Bauzeitung 61, 1913, p. 262, the location “Heilbronn und Stuttgart” can be found after the company information Beutinger & Steiner , in the Baumeister 12, 1914, p. 55 the version “Stuttgart-Heilbronn” can be found.