Friedrich Zollinger

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Friedrich Zollinger or Fritz Zollinger (born March 31, 1880 in Wiesbaden , † April 19, 1945 in Aising-Kaltmühl ; full name: Friedrich Reinhard Balthasar Zollinger ) was a German architect , town planner and municipal building officer . He officiated as town planning officer in Merseburg and developed the Zollinger roof named after him and the poured concrete process of the same name .

Fritz Zollinger was not related to the Swiss architect Otto Zollinger (1886-1970), who worked in Saarbrücken from 1924 to 1944.

Life

Born and raised in Wiesbaden, Zollinger graduated from high school in 1898. He then studied architecture and urban planning at the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 1907 he finished his studies with a diploma thesis in the field of urban planning. After completing his military service as a one-year volunteer , Zollinger worked from 1908 to 1911 as a government construction manager ( trainee lawyer in the public building administration) at the Grand Ducal Hessian Ministry of Finance in Darmstadt and the Royal Prussian Railway Directorate in Frankfurt am Main . Between 1912 and 1918 Zollinger worked as a city ​​architect in Neukölln .

In 1918 he was appointed to the town planning officer in Merseburg. After the First World War there was an extraordinary housing shortage in the industrial region around Merseburg. In 1922, as the town planning officer , Zollinger drafted a general development plan for the town. In addition, he founded the Merseburg construction company . This is where his creative ideas to create living space in an inexpensive way became effective. The bulk concrete construction, the Zollinger roof , a rationalized construction method, in which the later residents could be involved in a series of construction works, was described as a whole with the term "customs building procedure". This made it possible to create a large amount of inexpensive living space in a short time. Between 1922 and 1929 the Merseburg construction company built 1,250 apartments. In 1930 Zollinger did not extend his contract with the city of Merseburg. In the following years he worked as a freelancer and went on various study trips, including a. to Great Britain and France.

Zollinger finally left Merseburg in 1932. He taught at the Technical University of Darmstadt until 1934, after which he went to Munich . In 1945 Zollinger died in Aising-Kaltmühl.

The city of Merseburg has declared 2019 the Zollinger year and is celebrating it with numerous events.

Fonts

literature

  • Karin Heise: Friedrich Reinhardt Balthasar Zollinger. City planner and designer of the arched lamellar roof. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , issue 2/2004, pp. 68–73. ( online as a PDF document)
  • Klaus Winter, Wolfgang Rug: Innovations in timber construction. The Zollinger construction. In: Bautechnik , 69th year 1992, issue 4, pages 190–197. ( online as a PDF document; approx. 1.85 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Zollinger, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zollinger, Friedrich Reinhardt Balthasar (full name); Zollinger, Fritz (short form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and municipal building officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1945
Place of death Aising-Kaltmühl