Fritz Haas (architect)

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Fritz Haas (born July 1, 1890 in Murau , † 1968 in Graz ) was an Austrian architect who was best known for his power plant buildings. In Styria and Carinthia , Haas was responsible for the planning of many hydropower plants on the Mur , Enns and Drau , which were built in the 1920s to 1960s.

Life

Hirzmannsperre (1947–1950)

Haas studied architecture at the Graz University of Technology . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Graz . After the First World War and five years as a prisoner of war, Haas mainly worked for the Steirische-Elektrizitätswerke-Aktiengesellschaft STEWEAG , for which he had the Arnstein power station with the Langmann and Hirzmann storage facilities built. His buildings were based on the new objectivity , but were also the Heimatstil committed. In 1928 Haas was appointed full professor at the Vienna University of Technology . In November 1938 he was appointed rector of the university, which he headed until December 1942. Haas' successor as rector was Heinrichsequence . In particular, after the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938 , Haas drafted generous renovation plans for Graz , in keeping with the times in a more monumental design language, which, however, were not implemented. An example of this creative phase is the Mariborski Otok power plant near Marburg an der Drau , construction of which began during the World War. After 1947 Haas worked again as an architect.

A grandson of Fritz Haas is the composer Georg Friedrich Haas .

literature

  • Gerhard A. Stadler, Manfred Wehdorn , Monika Keplinger, Valentin E. Wille: Architektur im Verbund (= series of research in Verbund 100). Springer Verlag, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-211-75795-6 .
  • Valentin E. Wille: The architectural staging of hydropower plants , published in: Techn. Museum Wien (ed.): Blätter für Technikgeschichte, Volume 69/70 (2007/2008), pp. 79–90.
  • Hermann Grengg : Fritz Haas - a life and work report , publisher: Association for Homeland Security and Homeland Care, Graz 1973.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 77.
  2. ↑ Cordula Reyer: Georg Friedrich Haas: "Shame yes, guilt no" . In: The time . November 8, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 8, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Haas, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Murau
DATE OF DEATH 1968
Place of death Graz