Fritz Freymüller

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Fritz Freymüller , also Fritz Freymueller (born June 15, 1882 in Obersteinach , † September 13, 1950 in West Berlin ) was a German architect , urban planner and construction officer .

Life

Freymüller studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart , where he was a student of Theodor Fischer and Paul Bonatz . In 1912, after working for the first few years in Wilhelmshaven and Schöneberg, he was promoted to Lankwitz municipal building officer . The mayor of Lankwitz at the time, Rudolf Beyendorff , and he pushed forward the expansion of Lankwitz into the villa colony "Gartenstadt Lankwitz".

Freymüller fought in the trenches near Sedan during World War I and learned about the horror of trench warfare .

After Lankwitz was incorporated into Greater Berlin on October 1, 1920, Freymüller's achievements for Lankwitz were recognized and in 1921 he became the first urban planning officer for the new Berlin district of Steglitz . Several schools, the Steglitz fire station in Plantagenstrasse and the Lichterfelde stadium with its curved grandstand are from Freymüller.

On April 1, 1933, he was driven out of office by the National Socialists due to conflicts based on his liberal and democratic stance. He then worked as a freelance architect and built private residential buildings, such as the country house for the actor Paul Hörbiger . He participated in competitions for home ownership.

Freymüller wrote the book Kampf den Bausünden with his architect colleague Fritz Schröder , which shows structural errors and, with the help of drawings and practical advice, should help to avoid them. With the aim of “common understanding”, the book was intended to “ prepare a wider public for the efforts of future reconstruction - especially in settlement and residential building” after the longed-for end of the Second World War . The book was laid out in two volumes, devoted to rough construction and expansion. The first part appeared in 1941, the second part in 1942. The third, improved edition appeared in 1950. It is still considered a standard work on the subject of building sin. Although the co-author Schröder is written, Freymüller writes himself in his book Freymueller .

In 1948 Freymüller was commissioned to rebuild the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum in Dahlem , but he was no longer able to implement his design.

He last lived in his house, which was not destroyed in World War II, Alt-Lankwitz 74, and was buried in the Kreuzkirchhof in Lankwitz. Since the grave site was re-occupied, a reworked gravestone was placed on the grave site of the grandson (Dept. M, row W2, place 033).

The Freymüllerweg in Lankwitz has been named after him since 1997.

buildings

Fonts

  • (with Fritz Schröder): Fight against building sins . Part 1. Gersbach & Sohn, Berlin 1941.
  • (with Fritz Schröder): Fight against building sins . Part 2. Gersbach & Sohn, Berlin 1942.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument! In: KiezKontakt - newspaper for Steglitz-Zehlendorf and Tempelhof-Schöneberg , 8th year, No. 3, Berlin 2011, p. 1.
  2. ↑ a b c d e monument! In: KiezKontakt - newspaper for Steglitz-Zehlendorf and Tempelhof-Schöneberg , 8th year, No. 3, Berlin 2011, p. 10.
  3. ^ A b Sarah Retsch: The construction sin - career of a term. (PDF; 859 kB) Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg , accessed on March 12, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Fritz Frey Mueller, Fritz Schroeder fight the eyesores . Part 2. Gersbach & Sohn, Berlin 1942, p. 7.
  5. ↑ Freymüllerweg. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  6. ↑ JAS_011 - New Objectivity and Rock n Roll - Workshop on the youth house by Fritz Freymüller 2012 . Website of ff-Architekten PartG mbB, accessed on January 31, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Freymüller, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freymueller, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, town planner and building officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Obersteinach
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1950
Place of death West Berlin