Fritz Beblo

Fritz Beblo (born November 10, 1872 in Breslau , † April 11, 1947 in Munich ; full name: Friedrich Karl Ewald Beblo ) was a German architect , urban planner , municipal building officer and painter .

Life

Fritz Beblo attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau , where his father also taught, and was a classmate of Friedrich Kayssler and Christian Morgenstern there . Beblo had inherited his love for music from his father. His mother took care of Christian Morgensterns when he and Fritz met. From 1904 to 1906 Beblo attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . After graduating from high school in 1883, Beblo first spent his academic years in Berlin at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . Here he lived in close contact with his childhood friends Kayssler and Morgenstern. The three founded a cabaret and the regulars' table Der Galgenberg . As one of the gallows brothers , Beblo von Morgenstern was nicknamed Mute Hannes . Like the future actor Friedrich Kayssler, Beblo had a lifelong relationship with Morgenstern, a childhood friend from Breslau. In 1896, Beblo continued his studies at the Technical University of Karlsruhe with Carl Schäfer . The friendship with the painter Adolf Erbslöh came from this time . After completing his architecture studies with the first state examination , Beblo began a legal clerkship as a government building manager in the Prussian building administration, working among other things at the Ehrenbreitstein fortress near Koblenz and then in Traben-Trarbach on the construction of the Moselle bridge (1898). After passing the second state examination in 1902, he was appointed government builder ( assessor ) and took over the construction management for the new grammar school in Traben-Trarbach and built an elementary school according to his own designs. In the same year he married Melanie Luise Knoch, whom he had met in Karlsruhe. The marriage had three children. Beblo's daughter Anne (active as a children's book author) was married to Christian Kayssler , the son of his friend Friedrich Kayssler. Both sons became architects like their father. Beblo was the illustrator of several children's books, both by Morgenstern and by his daughter Anne Kayssler-Beblo.

1903–1919 in Strasbourg

In 1903, Beblo began his work as a town planning inspector in the municipal building administration of the city of Strasbourg , which had been part of the German Empire since 1871 with the Alsace-Lorraine region . At the beginning of the 20th century, building activity was also brisk in Strasbourg. In 1910 he was appointed town planning officer. He found support for his plans from Mayor Rudolf Schwander .

Particularly associated with Beblo's name are: the Musau School (1904–1906, today Collège Louise Weiss ), the Thomas School (1905–1907), the Neufeld School (1907–1909), the household school next to the Magdalenenkirche (1909–1910), the Magdalenenkirche , the large street opening Grande Percée (Neue Straße) and the Stadtbad (1905–1908, Bains Municipaux ). This Art Nouveau building with indoor pool and bathing establishment is now a sight and is a listed building . Beblo's last work in Strasbourg is the northern cemetery. He could no longer complete this work because as a German civil servant he had to leave Strasbourg, which had become French again, after the end of the First World War .

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  Collège "Louise Weiss" (Musau School) in Strasbourg (1904–1906)

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  École Saint-Thomas (St. Thomas School) in Strasbourg (1905–1907)

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  Bains municipaux (city baths) in Strasbourg (1905–1908, 1910–1911)

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  Buildings on the Cimetière Nord (North Cemetery) in Strasbourg

1919–1936 in Munich

Beblo received offers from Aachen , Bonn and Munich. He decided on Munich, where great tasks awaited him as a city planning officer. At the beginning of his activity he was responsible for the construction of large housing estates to alleviate the housing shortage. In the following years he presented a general building line and a zoning plan that went far beyond the existing boundaries of the city, and in 1926 a green space plan . He was jointly responsible for the Dante stadium , for the popular Maria Einsiedel family pool and for the (old) technical town hall . In 1934, Munich gained great importance as a transport hub. The expansion of the Ramersdorf motorway access and the Ludwigsbrücke was one of Beblo's last major tasks before his retirement . After 1936 he lived withdrawn in his house in Munich- Giesing . He was buried in the Munich cemetery at Perlacher Forst , which he himself helped to plan.

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  (Old) Technical Town Hall in Munich (1928–1929)

Because of his special services to the city of Munich, a street in Munich- Bogenhausen was named after him in 1955 .

Fonts

• The Alemannic wood construction in Strasbourg . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 33rd year 1913, No. 5 (from January 18, 1913), pp. 37–39. ( Digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin )
• Alemannic and Franconian elements of the Strasbourg town hall. In: Elsaß-Lothringen Jahrbuch , Volume 3 (1924), pp. 92-104.
• (together with Hermann Leitensdorfer and Eduard Knorr): The technical town hall in Munich. (= Monographs on today's building design , series 1, volume 1.) Munich 1930.
• Architecture in Alsace-Lorraine 1871–1918 . In: Das Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen 1871-1918, Volume 3 - Science, Art and Literature in Alsace-Lorraine 1871-1918. Frankfurt am Main 1934, pp. 241-263.

literature

• Richard Bauer (Ed.), Rosa Beblo-Hundhammer: Building on Tradition. Fritz Beblo 1872-1947. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Munich City Archives) Munich 1991.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Beblo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Fritz Beblo in the catalog of the German National Library
• Strasbourg, Bains municipaux
• Strasbourg, Collège Louise Weiss