Eduard Fritze

Fritzes villa in Meiningen

Heldburg station

Henneberger House

George Bridge

Eduard Fritze (born November 22, 1849 in Veilsdorf ; † August 17, 1926 in Würzburg ) was a German architect , construction clerk , politician and author in Meiningen . He was President of the State Parliament of Saxony-Meiningen and created numerous buildings as an architect.

Life

Born in Veilsdorf in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen, Eduard received private lessons from his father and some teachers at an early age. After an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, he attended the building trade school in Holzminden from 1864 to 1866 . In 1868 Fritze became a building supervisor under senior building officer Otto Hoppe in Meiningen. In 1870/71 he took part as a sergeant and platoon leader in the Franco-German War , where he received the Iron Cross . From 1873 to 1879 Fritze studied at the Bauakademie in Berlin and successively passed the maturity examination, construction manager examination and master builder examination.

In 1880 Eduard Fritze got the position as ducal road and hydraulic engineer for the districts of Meiningen and Hildburghausen , from 1889 he was responsible for the entire duchy. In 1891 he was appointed building officer in the Meiningen court building authority and here in 1895 as senior building officer. Member since 1880, in 1894 Fritze was elected director of the Hennebergisch antiquity research association (HaV), for which he had the Henneberg house built as a domicile in 1895 . He headed the club until his death. His political career began with his entry into the Meiningen Landtag in 1894. Here Fritze became second Vice President in 1902, first Vice President in 1909 and President of the Landtag in 1915, which he held until the new Landtag election in 1919.

In 1921 Eduard Fritze received his doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Jena . In the Cabinet Leutheußer I , the state government of Thuringia he was from February 1924 to April 15, 1925 State of Meiningen mandate of the DVP .

In 1911 Fritze was made an honorary citizen of the city of Meiningen . For his buildings he received, among other things, the Commander's Cross and the Knight's Cross 1st Class. In 1999 the city of Meiningen put a plaque in his honor at the hotel "Sächsischer Hof". Eduard Fritze was married and had two sons.

Works

buildings

• 1888: Heldburg station
• 1892: Friedenskirche (Bad Liebenstein) , total renovation
• 1894–1895: Henneberg House in Meiningen
• 1899: Conversion of the Hotel Sächsischer Hof in Meiningen
• 1899: Deutsche Hypothekenbank in Meiningen
• 1899: George Bridge in Meiningen
• 1905: Fountain stick at the chapel fountain in Meiningen (foundation)
• 1905: Schlundhaus in Meiningen
• 1911: New citizens' school (from 1914 “Prinz Friedrich School”, from 1991 “School on the Pulverrasen”) in Meiningen
• Charlottenhall in Bad Salzungen
• Faithful restoration of numerous historical half-timbered and town houses, including the Büchnersches Hinterhaus

Fonts

• The fortress Heldburg . Fischer, Jena 1903.

as reprint : Frankenschwelle, Hildburghausen 1990, ISBN 3861800160 .

• History about Altenstein Castle , Bad Liebenstein and neighboring towns. Self-published in 1925.

as a reprint: Elch-Verlag, Bad Liebenstein, ISBN 3933566096 .

• Village pictures I and II
• Fifty years of the history of a Frankish village (reprint from Dorfbilder II) Verlag von Curt Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1913
• Franconian-Thuringian (Althennebergic) wooden buildings from old and new times. with 45 plates and a 22-page booklet, Meiningen 1892. Reprint with additional 124 pages ISBN 3934277403
• The town church in Meiningen.

literature

• Kuratorium Meiningen (Hrsg.): Lexicon for the history of the city of Meiningen. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .
• Thränhardt, Pfannschmidt: Architecture in Meiningen . Verlag Resch, Meiningen 2010, ISBN 978-3-940-295-08-8 .