Ernst Zinn (architect)

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Ernst Zinn (born October 5, 1929 in Wanne-Eickel ) is a German architect and was government building director at the State Building Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia. He is also known as a monument conservator .

Life

Born in the Ruhr area as the son of foreman Ernst Zinn and his wife Emma Zinn, born in Kirchner, Ernst Zinn found his first job in reconstruction from 1945 to 1949 after the Second World War and trained as a craftsman. On November 11, 1947, he passed his apprenticeship examination in masonry. He then attended the State Building School in Essen from 1950 to 1952 , where on July 24, 1952, he passed the engineering examination in the field of structural engineering, which enabled him to qualify for university entrance. Subsequently, on October 1, 1952, he took up his studies at the Department of Architecture of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen , where he passed the main diploma examination in the Department of Architecture on November 25, 1957. In 1958 he worked as a freelancer in the Krefeld city ​​planning office, in the same year he married and started a family with his wife, a secondary school teacher. On January 1, 1959, he began his legal traineeship at the North Rhine-Westphalian State Building Administration in the service area of ​​the Düsseldorf government. After passing the Great State Examination for the higher technical administrative officials on October 19, 1961, Zinn joined the Wuppertal State Building Authority on November 1, 1961, to which he was a member until October 31, 1963. During this time he received his appointment as government building assessor on July 1, 1962.

From Wuppertal, Ernst Zinn was then transferred to the Krefeld / Rheydt State Building Authority, from where he moved to the Cologne State Building Authority on November 1, 1964, which he headed from 1966 as a permanent representative of the diseased administrative board. In Cologne he was promoted to government building officer (December 8, 1964) and senior government building officer (March 12, 1968). Numerous major construction projects were under his direction, including the extensive restoration projects at Altenberg Cathedral , the Augustusburg and Falkenlust palaces in Brühl and at Bensberg Castle .

In 1962, Willy Weyres encouraged Ernst Zinn to carry out a study of the building history of the 19th century. This resulted in his doctoral dissertation Die Baukunst in Elberfeld during the first half of the 19th century, which was also published in 1968. After the oral doctoral examination on June 23, 1967, Zinn received the certificate of doctorate engineer on November 22, 1968 .

After completing his doctorate , Ernst Zinn worked for the North Rhine-Westphalian University Construction and Financing Company from 1969 to the end of 1974 , after which he moved to the Ministry of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia at the beginning of 1975 and worked there until the end of 1980. From 1981 to 1994 he was first head of department and later from 1983 as a ministerial advisor in the Ministry for Urban Development, Housing and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (now the Ministry for Building, Housing, Urban Development and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia ). His area of ​​responsibility included, among other things, decisions on the Monument Protection Act and monument preservation for the numerous large federal and state-owned buildings as well as their documentation. Another focus of his work was the restoration of the Jülich Citadel . From 1980 he is a member of the National Committee of the Federal Republic of Germany of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS).

From 1983 to 1999 Ernst Zinn had a teaching position for the department of urban development and monument preservation in the additional course of monument preservation at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences . From 1991 he was chairman of the "Association of Friends and Patrons of the Bergisches Freilichtmuseums e. V. “( LVR open-air museum Lindlar ) in Lindlar . Zinn also did volunteer work in the Chamber of Architects in North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Bund Deutscher Baumeister as well as in the church and political areas. In the 1970s he was Vice President of the Cologne Police Choir.

Ernst Zinn is married and lives in Neuss .

Awards

Fonts

  • Rheinische Verein für Denkmalpflege und Heimatschutz e. V. (Ed.): The architecture in Elberfeld during the first half of the 19th century . The buildings of the community and the state. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1968 (review: Eva Brües, KUNST-CHRONIK, 23rd year, February 1970, issue 2 under Contributions to the Rhenish architecture of the 19th century, publisher: Central Institute for Art History in Munich Verlag Hans Carl Nürnberg 1970).
  • State-owned palaces, castles, churches and monasteries. A sketchy building typology . In: Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): State-owned monuments. Documentation of the monuments owned by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . WA Meinke, Düsseldorf 1987, pp. 13-22.
  • Justice building in North Rhine-Westphalia. Comments on questions about the design of the courthouse as functional and representative buildings . In: Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): State-owned monuments. Documentation of the monuments owned by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . WA Meinke, Düsseldorf 1987, pp. 23-32.
  • The Elberfeld station and headquarters building and the beginnings of the railway network in the Bergisch-Märkisch area . First symposium. In: National Committee of the Federal Republic of Germany of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (Ed.): Railway and Monument Preservation . Munich 1990.
  • The house of the von der Heydt Museum. The post-Napoleonic town hall and its urban historical context . In: Sabine Fehlemann, Lothar Juckel (Ed.): Von-der-Heydt-Museum Wuppertal. On the history of the house and collection . Edition Stadtbaukunst, Berlin / Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-927469-06-8 , p. 13-27 .
  • The former abbey church in Essen-Werden. Construction history and obligations . In: Ministry for Urban Development and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Hrsg.): Patronatsbauten. Documentation of the architectural monuments in North Rhine-Westphalia . WA Meinke, Düsseldorf 1991, pp. 7-20.
  • The importance of the Jülich citadel for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Günter Bers, Conrad Dose (ed.): The Italian architect Alessandro Pasqualini (1493–1559) and the Renaissance on the Lower Rhine: State of knowledge and research perspectives. I. Jülich Pasqualini Symposium on October 30, 1993 in the Jülich Citadel. Conference manual 1994 . Fischer, Jülich 1994, ISBN 3-87227-051-6 , pp. 27-31.
  • 25 years association of the Bergisches Freilichtmuseum . In: Anka Dawid (ed.) On behalf of the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Bergisches Freilichtmuseums Lindlar eV: Freilichtblick . Issue 20, Siebel Druck, Lindlar 2014, ISBN 978-3-932557-13-2 , pp. 26-28.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Ernst Zinn: The architecture in Elberfeld during the first half of the 19th century. The buildings of the community and the state . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1968, curriculum vitae (also dissertation, Faculty of Construction, TH Aachen)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Anja Grünhage: Indispensable traces of history . We congratulate Dr. Ernst Zinn on his 70th birthday! In: Free-Light-View . No. 12 , 1999, p. 7-8 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Ernst Zinn: Home - Ernst Zinn . Retrieved March 9, 2016 .
  4. ^ Rhenish homeland maintenance . (Communications from the Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz eV) 39th year 1/2002, Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 2002, ISSN 0342-1805, p. 70 f.
personal data
SURNAME Tin, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, monument conservator and ministerial official (NRW)
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanne-Eickel