Heinrich Bärsch

Heinrich Bärsch (born May 9, 1899 in Rüsselsheim ; † 1971 there ) was a German architect and deputy member of the board of Opel AG.

Life

Heinrich Bärsch initially trained as a building craftsman up to the master craftsman's examination and then attended the higher construction school in Darmstadt with a degree as an architect and civil engineer . He specialized in industrial buildings. From 1920 he worked for Opel, first as a construction clerk, from 1935 as head of the construction department. In 1949 he became head of the construction and energy supply department. In 1964 he retired. He was also honorary managing director of Opel Wohnbau GmbH for company apartments .

Building of the Berlin-Lübeck machine factory (1936, status 2014)

His style was shaped by the modernity of the New Building of the twenties, which was still used for industrial buildings during National Socialism . A reinforced concrete skeleton is usually filled in with strips of brick and small-sprouted glass.

buildings

High-pressure power plant on the Main , forge and port facilities, Rüsselsheim
1934–1940 Berlin-Lübeck machine factory , Lübeck
1935 Opel factory in Brandenburg
1954–1956 Opel plants: K-40 body shop, Rüsselsheim

Fonts

The new automobile plant of Adam Opel Aktiengesellschaft Rüsselsheim AM , special print from: Der Bauingenieur 32 (1957), pp. 193–208

literature

Mortimer G. Davidson: Art in Germany 1933-1945. A Scientific Encyclopedia of Art in the Third Reich. Volume 3: Architecture, Tübingen: Grabert 1995, ISBN 978-3-87847-111-0 , p. 461

Individual evidence

↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 906 No. 425, p. 332 ( digitized version ).
↑ Opel Post , November 1949
↑ See: Jürgen Rostock, Franz Zadniček: Paradiesruinen - The KdF seaside resort of the twenty thousand on Rügen. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-414-3 , p. 35
↑ Wolfgang Pehnt : The End of Confidence: Architecture in this Century: Ideas, Buildings, Documents. Munich: Siedler 1983, p. 194
^ Helmut Weihsmann: Building under the swastika: Architecture of the downfall. Promedia, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85371-113-8 , p. 628

personal data
SURNAME	Bärsch, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect and deputy board member of Opel AG
DATE OF BIRTH	May 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ruesselsheim
DATE OF DEATH	1971
Place of death	Ruesselsheim

[1] see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 906 No. 425, p. 332 ( digitized version ).

[2] Opel Post , November 1949

[3] See: Jürgen Rostock, Franz Zadniček: Paradiesruinen - The KdF seaside resort of the twenty thousand on Rügen. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-414-3 , p. 35

[4] Wolfgang Pehnt : The End of Confidence: Architecture in this Century: Ideas, Buildings, Documents. Munich: Siedler 1983, p. 194

[5] Helmut Weihsmann: Building under the swastika: Architecture of the downfall. Promedia, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85371-113-8 , p. 628