Eugen Rückgauer

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The Kunstpalast Düsseldorf with restaurant (today Ehrenhof No. 3)
Deutsche Bank on Roßmarkt in Frankfurt, once a branch of the Disconto-Gesellschaft

Eugen Karl Rückgauer (born September 6, 1870 in Stuttgart ; † October 22, 1943 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German architect .

Life

Eugen Rückgauer was a son of Erasmus Rückgauer . From 1895 he worked for the construction company Philipp Holzmann . Among other things, he designed the Disconto-Gesellschaft building on Frankfurt's Roßmarkt and the Mitteldeutsche Creditbank building in Frankfurt.

1901–1902, with Rückgauer's participation, the main building of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial and trade exhibition in Düsseldorf was built in 1902 , this building - the so-called exhibition palace and restaurant, later the art palace - was completely rebuilt in 1925/1926 on the occasion of the GeSoLei .

At times Eugen Rückgauer ran a construction business in Stuttgart , in which his father was also employed.

In 1912, the Parkhotel Schlangenbad was built according to Eugen Rückgauer's plans and is now a listed building.

Web links

Commons : Eugen Rückgauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Museum for Altona . Award-winning competition design, architect E. Rückgauer, Frankfurt a. M. In: Festgabe to celebrate the XXX year. Existence of the Academic Architects' Association of the Kgl. Technical University of Stuttgart . A collection of drafts and buildings carried out by members of the association . Stuttgart: Ebner, 1899, p. 51, plate 22 ( digitized ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Register office Frankfurt am Main II: death register . No. 516/1943.
  2. ↑ Manfred Pohl: Philipp Holzmann. History of a construction company 1849–1999. CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-45339-2 , p. 121.
  3. ↑ According to another source, Rückgauer worked for the Holzmann construction company until 1914:
    database entry Eugen Rückgauer in "archthek" - Historical Register of Architects, Rubensdörffer - Ržiha section , last accessed on November 26, 2011
  4. ↑ Rheinisch-Westfälische Industrie- und Gewerbeausstellung Düsseldorf 1902. (Overview of buildings) ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed November 26, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kmkbuecholdt.de
  5. ↑ In Hermann Scheurer's book Die Hirsch-Katastrophe in Nagold (Hermann Scheurer: Die Hirsch-Katastrophe in Nagold. Geiger, Horb 1992, ISBN 3-89264-666-4 , p. 95.) the father used the son's letter paper . The abbreviation “Eg. Rückgauer ”as well as the telephone number 644 and bank details, but no address. Rückgauer describes himself here as an “architect” and construction business owner and claims to specialize in lifting, shifting and rotating buildings, which was actually and originally his father's profession.
  6. ↑ Parkhotel Schlangenbad ( Memento of the original dated August 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document with approx. 970 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiesbaden.de
personal data
SURNAME Rückgauer, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rückgauer, Eugen Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1943
Place of death Frankfurt am Main