Franz Ruff

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Franz Ruff (* 1906 in Straubing ; † 1979 in Prien am Chiemsee ) was a German architect .

Adolf Hitler with the architects Speer (left) and Franz Ruff in front of drawings and models of the Nuremberg party conference grounds, 1934

Franz Ruff was born in Straubing in 1906 as the son of the architect Ludwig Ruff . He also became an architect and from the beginning of his activity in Nuremberg worked mainly for the National Socialists . In 1934 he also took over his father's teaching activities at the State School for Applied Arts in Nuremberg until the fall of the 'Third Reich' in 1945. Ruff is one of the most famous architects of the 'Third Reich' alongside Albert Speer , Paul Ludwig Troost and his father Ludwig Ruff who were entrusted with typical representative buildings and in this respect are considered to be style-forming for this period. After the end of National Socialism, Ruff was classified as a follower in a denazification process. As a result, he continued to work as an architect, but after 1945 was unable to build on his career during the National Socialist era .

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Congress hall, 2008
Südkaserne (from Frankenstrasse)

After smaller projects such as the Hitler House (also known as the 'Brown House') in Nuremberg in 1932, after the death of his father in 1934, he took over the large-scale project of the never completed congress hall on the Nazi party rally grounds . 1935–1937 he oversaw the expansion and renovation of the Deutsches Hof , the hotel that was Hitler's permanent quarters in Nuremberg.

In 1935/1937 he designed the Gauhaus Franken , the official residence of the Stürmer publisher and Gauleiter for Franconia Julius Streicher , today used by the Nürnberger Nachrichten . Ruff also had the baroque Neptune Fountain , which was demolished in 1934 at the instigation of Streicher, set up in front of the Gauhaus.

His biggest project from 1937 to 1939 was what was later known as the SS barracks (actually called SS accommodation at the time), which is now the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees .

According to plans by Ruff, the Pleikershof near Cadolzburg was built for Julius Streicher between 1937 and 1942 , an axially symmetrical three-sided courtyard of monumental proportions in the homeland security style .

literature

  • Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Building in National Socialism. Bavaria 1933–1945. Munich 1993.
  • Thomas Heyden: Ludwig Ruff (1978-1934). The Fuehrer's second builder. In: Beer, Heyden, Koch, Liedtke, Nerdinger, Schmidt: Building in Nuremberg 1933–1945. Architecture and forms of construction under National Socialism. Nuremberg 1995.
  • Museums of the City of Nuremberg (Ed.): Fascination and violence. The Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. Nuremberg 1996.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Archives Koblenz, NS 1, 726
  2. ↑ Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees (Ed.): One building - many names. Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-9805881-6-5 .
  3. ↑ Monument preservation information , ISSN  1863-7590 , No. 148 (from March 2011), pp. 40–42.
personal data
SURNAME Ruff, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Straubing
DATE OF DEATH 1979
Place of death Prien am Chiemsee