Franz Ruf (architect)

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Franz Ruf (* 1909 in Munich ; † 1997 in Gmund am Tegernsee ) was a German architect .

Life

After successfully completing his architecture studies at the Munich State Building School in 1929, Ruf initially worked in an office community with his older brother Sep Ruf ( Ruf architecture firm ). In 1933 he opened his own architectural office in Munich, in which he also accepted his son Andreas Ruf as a partner in 1973 . During the National Socialist era , Ruf realized private houses and commercial buildings. The focus of his work, however, was on the planning and execution of housing estates on behalf of non-profit housing construction companies, mainly Heimbau Bayern Gemeinnützige Baugesellschaft mbh Munich. Together with Lois Knidberger and his brother Sep Ruf, he participated in the construction of the Ramersdorf model estate as early as 1934 , where they built 16 of the 192 buildings. In the following years Ruf designed, among other things, development plans for the Oberland settlement on Einhornallee in Sendling-Westpark , which he carried out together with his brother, and the Dornier settlement in Neuaubing , which he carried out alone.

During the Second World War Ruf was used as a soldier in the supply chain. With the reconstruction of the dental clinic at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in Goethestrasse, he continued his work as an architect in 1947. During the following thirty years he shaped the cityscape of Munich mainly through the creation of urgently needed living space in the form of extensive housing estates and residential complexes. On behalf of Neue Heimat , Ruf took over the overall planning of Parkstadt Bogenhausen together with Johannes Ludwig in 1957/58 and created a number of individual buildings there. The large estates Fürstenried I (Fürstenried Ost) and II (Fürstenried West) (1960), Neuaubing West (1965/68), Fasanenpark Unterhaching (1966) and Hasenbergl Nord (1969) should be mentioned as further major projects .

Ruf's work includes a number of public buildings such as the Situli School in Freimann (1952, together with Johannes Ludwig ; collaboration: Raimund Geibel), the Munich State Building School (1953–55, expansion 1964–69), the Lechfeld telecommunications barracks (1959), the Church of the Virgin Mary in Pain in Munich- Hasenbergl (1968) and parts of the Institute for Systematic Botany at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1969). With the administration of Heimbau Bayern (1954), several savings banks and banks (1952-1960), the Taufkirchen (1970) and Haar (1971) shopping centers and Deutscher Lloyd Lebensversicherungs AG (1974), he also planned and built office and commercial properties. The spatial focus of his activities was in Munich and the Munich area, another in Regensburg . In individual cases, the architectural office's range of action extended to Landsberg , Bayreuth and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse .

Ruf was killed in a traffic accident in December 1997.

Work (selection)

State Building School Munich
Mariae seven pains Munich

According to Hegedüs: The architect Franz Ruf and the architecture of the 1950s in Munich . 1993, pp. 56–60, catalog raisonné (without single-family houses, selection of larger projects from 1962).

literature

  • Franz Ruf: Buildings and Plans (= Bibliographical Collection of German Architects . 1). Fackler, Munich 1950.
  • Elmar Hegedüs: The architect Franz Ruf and the architecture of the fifties in Munich . Special diploma thesis at Munich University of Applied Sciences, Department of Architecture (Masch.). Munich 1993.

Web links

Commons : Franz Ruf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hegedüs: The architect Franz Ruf and the architecture of the fifties in Munich . 1993, pp. 56–60, catalog raisonné.
  2. ^ Hegedüs: The architect Franz Ruf and the architecture of the fifties in Munich . 1993, p. 19, short biography.
  3. ^ Matthias Köpf: Holzkirchen has a wooden church again. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. March 16, 2018, accessed March 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ruf, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 1997
Place of death Gmund am Tegernsee