Albert Lüttgenau

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Albert Lüttgenau (born March 29, 1880 in Bonn - Kessenich ; † February 7, 1949 in Hürth - Hermülheim ) was a German architect and municipal building officer . For many years he was an official builder and, after the Second World War, for a short time as the successor to Fritz Räcke, he was the municipal director in Hürth. Many of the buildings designed by him are listed .

Life

Lüttgenau attended elementary school until 1894 and then did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer with the Bonn master builder H. Petazzi. Because he was drawn in there for drawing work, in 1896, in addition to his professional activity, he went on to study at the building trade school in Idstein , which he graduated with a good grade in 1900 . Before and after his military service as a one-year volunteer , he worked for architects in Koblenz and Bonn. He started his first job in Heddesdorf in 1903 and was taken over by the Siegburg district two years later as a construction assistant . In 1910 he then took up the position of official construction manager in Hürth and was elected municipal master builder by the council under Mayor Heinrich Rosell . In 1920 he got civil servant status . In 1933 he had to fear for his job under the law to restore the civil service by the new rulers of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . There were strong tendencies to dismiss him as well as the mayor Werner Disse and the alderman Fritz Räcke . In addition, the new rulers disliked both the style of the New Building and its involvement in the Reichsbund civil servants' union of municipal officials and employees . But it did not come to that - although he refused to join the party. Only after the war in March 1945 did he retire at the age of 65 . Due to an acute shortage of staff, the newly appointed mayor Fritz Räcke brought him back into active service and made him head of the waterworks again . In September 1946 he was appointed for a short time until January 31, 1947 ( retirement as community director) by the military administration, against the will of the council, as community director in Hürth. He managed the waterworks until the end of 1948.

Lüttgenau was married twice. His first marriage to Wilhelmine, née Schött, had six children. After the early death of his wife, he married Anne Maria Zimmermann in 1920. Since 1935 Lüttgenau was temporarily ill and unable to work for longer months, so that at the age of 60 he applied for early retirement. The request was not granted. Presumably because of his poor health, he died a few weeks after he had given up the management of the waterworks.

Buildings and designs

As a building authority manager, he also worked as a designing architect. During his time in Hürth many important and worth seeing buildings were built. Occasionally he took on private assignments against the opposition of his superiors.

Listed building

Buildings not preserved

More buildings

  • Reconstruction of the old town hall in Hermülheim
  • Fire station behind the former town hall

Picture gallery

  • former swimming pool in Alt-Hürth

  • Vocational school - today vocational college in Alt-Hürth

  • Arcade houses on the Villebahn 14–28a

  • Vegetable growing school in Fischenich

  • Former fruit and vegetable auction hall in Fischenich

  • rebuilt old town hall, currently Turkish consulate general

  • Former fire station in Hermülheim

  • two semi-detached houses on the Villebahn in Alt-Hürth

  • Semi-detached house on the Villebahn, opposite the arcade houses

  • Residential building on Rosellstrasse with a cross on the corner of Luxemburger Strasse

literature

  • Karin Johnson: Life and work of the Hürth official builder Albert Lüttgenau (1880–1949). In: Hürther Contributions , Volume 92 (2013), pp. 21–41.
  • Yasmin Renges: The city baths of the Roaring Twenties , Vita page 188 Dissertation

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yasmin Renges: The city baths of the Roaring Twenties. Dissertation, University of Cologne , Cologne 2015, page 188. ( online as PDF)
  2. ↑ Ursula Froitzheim: The restart of the local political life in Hürth. In: Hürther Heimat , No. 76, pp. 107–114.
  3. ^ Conversion of the Old Swimming Bath Euregional Prize for Architecture
  4. ↑ Historical sights in Alt-Hürth and Knapsack
  5. ↑ Historical sights in Alt-Hürth and Knapsack ( memento from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) huerth.de
  6. ↑ Investor wanted for architectural monument. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from October 31, 2013
  7. ^ Monument protection tug of war around the former town hall
personal data
SURNAME Lüttgenau, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and municipal building officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn - Kessenich
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1949
Place of death Hürth - Hermülheim