Bruno Bauer (architect)

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Bruno Bauer

Bruno Bauer (born November 30, 1880 in Vienna , † December 21, 1938 in London ) was an Austrian architect and construction technician.

Life

Bruno Bauer, who comes from a family of industrialists, studied at the Technical University after attending a humanistic grammar school and secondary school in Prague , initially as an assistant at the university, but then went on to work as a construction manager for the Vinschgau Railway . In 1907 he obtained his doctorate techn. In 1910 he also received the master builder license. As a result, he mainly devoted himself to industrial plant projects and achieved a good reputation internationally.

During the First World War , as a Landsturm engineer, he planned the two factories for the manufacture of explosives in Blumau and Sollenau in southern Lower Austria. But he also worked on Imperial German state factories as well as on private projects.

In the years from 1908 to 1933, Bauer registered as a construction engineer alone 120 patents in a new reinforced concrete technology, such as for the Bauer steel frame construction or the Bauer rail .

Because of his Jewish origins, his office in Vienna's Mariahilfer Strasse was closed after the “Anschluss” of Austria and he had to emigrate to London. According to his brother, he died as a result of a serious operation on December 21, 1938 in London.

Awards

Memberships

  • Board member of the Federation Internationale des Ingenieurs-Conseil, Brussels
  • Chamber of Engineers and Architects Vienna, where he was president several times
  • Founder and President of the Association of Technical Lawyers
  • Vice President of the Association of Technical Writers

Works

Teesdorf cotton mill

Residential and commercial buildings

Industrial buildings

  • 1908–1910 - Teesdorf cotton spinning mill , Lower Austria
  • 1912 curtain weaving mill in St. Pölten (today partly depot of the city theater)
  • 1913 Factory building of the Max Friedmann iron foundry, Vienna 2nd district
  • 1913 Electricity works Erikson, Vienna 12, (today Schrack Elektrizitäts AG )
  • 1913 Deckert & Homolka factory, Vienna 12
  • 1914–1915 - Blumau powder factory (factory, water tower, portal system and administration building; factory not preserved)
  • 1915–1916 - The "Benzol" branch of the powder factory in Sollenau
  • 1916–1918 - The "Tritol", branch of the powder factory in Theresienfeld ( Tritolwerk )
  • 1916–1922 - Elin-Union AG for electrical industry , Weiz
  • 1924 - Wiener Schuh AG BALLY , Vienna 15
  • 1937 - Machine factory Ernst Krause, Vienna 2nd

Buildings in the Czech Republic

  • after 1908 - factory for the production of Portland cement, Králův Dvůr
  • 1911 - Hynek Fuchs factory, Praha 10 - Vinohrady, čp. 2405, Vinohradská třída 188
  • 1913–1914 - Compensatory tower in the area of ​​the cotton mill hydropower plant, Tanvald
  • The complex of the former textile mills Vlněna , Brno .

literature

  • Bruno Bauer (architect). In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  • G. Schmick: Reinforcement skeletons for reinforced concrete structures. Patents v. Baur. Dr.Ing. B. Bauer, Vienna . Vienna 1932.
  • The association of builders Austria (Hrsg.): The order in the technical profession. A reply to the statements of Mr. Baurat B. Bauer in his book, Chaos im techn. Professions' . Vienna 1934.
  • K.-D. Mulley / H. Leopold (eds.): Austria's powder smithy. The armaments industry at Steinfeld / Groß Mittel. 125 years of the Pottendorfer line . Ebenfurt 1996.
  • ÖKT 54: T Karl / T. Brückler: The art monuments of the city of St.Pölten . Horn 1999.
  • M. Wehdorn / U. Georgeacopol-Winischhofer: Architectural monuments of technology and industry in Austria . Vol. 1. Vienna a. a. 1984.
Lexicon entry
  • Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin, 18th to 20th centuries . Ed .: Austrian National Library, Vienna. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 (Volume 1) p. 75

Web links

Commons : Bruno Bauer (architect)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Load-bearing behavior of anchor channels (PDF; 2.8 MB) page 2, accessed on October 11, 2009.
  2. ^ Zdeněk Lukeš: Settling the debt: German-speaking architects working in Prague 1900–1938 ( ISBN 80-86627-05-5 , translation: Rico Schote)
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1938
Place of death London