Fritz Schaarschmidt

Fritz Schaarschmidt

Institute building VEB Hochvakuum, Grunaer Weg 26

Grave of Fritz Schaarschmidt in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden

Fritz Schaarschmidt (born August 18, 1901 in Bärenloh near Bad Elster in Vogtland ; † January 7, 1970 in Dresden ) was a German architect .

Life

After graduating from König-Georg-Gymnasium in 1922, Fritz Schaarschmidt began studying architecture at the Technical University of Dresden . His teachers included Martin Dülfer , Fritz Schumacher , Emil Högg and Alfons Schneegans (1867-1946) and Richard Müller . During his studies, Schaarschmidt worked in Martin Dülfer's studio and in Emil Högg's architectural office, which at the time was busy planning industrial buildings. After completing his studies in 1929, he first worked for Martin Dülfer and later in the office of Fritz Höger in Hamburg, who was known for his clinker buildings . Fritz Schaarschmidt returned to Dresden as early as 1932 and initially worked as an assistant for spatial art at the TH Dresden and then until 1951 as a freelance architect. After the Second World War , in which he was drafted for two years from 1943, Fritz Schaarschmidt took part in the reconstruction of numerous houses and churches in Dresden.

In 1951 Fritz Schaarschmidt became a freelancer in the architecture department of the Technical University of Dresden, which was headed by Walter Henn . From 1952 to 1966 he taught first with a simple teaching position and from 1955 as a professor for industrial construction and design at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Dresden (from 1961 Technical University of Dresden). He was elected to the head of the Department of Architecture, from 1955 to 1957 he was Vice Dean and from 1957 to 1959 Dean of the Faculty of Construction. He was also a member of the scientific advisory board of the State Secretariat for higher education and technical schools and the planning commission of the Technical University of Dresden.

Fritz Schaarschmidt died in Dresden in 1970. His grave is in the local Johannisfriedhof .

Works

Fritz Schaarschmidt was involved in the design and construction of numerous teaching and research buildings at the Dresden University of Technology after 1945, for example he built the Drude Building together with Walter Henn and Karl Wilhelm Ochs , and the Merkel Building together with Walter Henn from 1955 to 1957 , from 1956 to 1958 the Heidebroek building and from 1961 to 1966 the Walther Hempel building.

Fritz Schaarschmidt and the collective designed the industrial plant of VEB Hochvakuum in Dresden, which was built from 1963 to 1966. It consists of a 6-storey institute building with a kitchen wing and a production hall conceived as a shed hall , which was designed as a "model and experimental building" by Dr. Herrmann Rühle was designed.

Fritz Schaarschmidt was in 1955 on the establishment of Rappbodetalsperre , 1959 Pöhl involved 1,959 of the storage basin Spremberg-Bräsinchen and 1960, the Wendefurth Power Station and designed industrial buildings for the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

literature

• Schaarschmidt, Fritz. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 816-817.
• Heinrich Rettig: Professor Dipl.-Ing. Fritz Schaarschmidt 65 years. In: Scientific journal of the Technical University of Dresden. 15th year, issue 6, 1966, p. 1265f.
• Edmund Collein : Fritz Schaarschmidt on his 65th birthday. In: German architecture. 9, 1966.
• Klaus Methner: In memory of Fritz Schaarschmidt. In: Architecture of the GDR: On the International Year of the Victims 1981. 9, 1981.

Web links

• Data set in the Catalogus professorum of the Technical University of Dresden , last accessed on January 6, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ May et al., P. 66, no. 106.