Heinrich Blecken

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House of the iron industry in Düsseldorf

Heinrich Blecken (born December 23, 1885 in Munich , † December 18, 1965 in Wuppertal ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Heinrich Blecken grew up in Pöcking on Lake Starnberg, where he attended elementary school. From 1904 to 1909 Blecken studied at the Technical University of Munich . In 1911/1912 he was an assistant at the Technical University of Dresden and at the Dresden Art Academy . In 1921 he became construction director at the coal and steel company Rheinische Stahlwerke AG in Duisburg - Meiderich - there he stayed even after it was incorporated into the newly founded Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG in 1926. During his time in Duisburg, where he designed a few company buildings and housing estates, he developed his most important one Contribution to the architecture of the 20th century: The steel house system associated with his name, called "System Blecken". Some settlements built according to this system can still be found in the Ruhr area today, for example a small listed settlement in the Dortmund district of Eving . There are four settlement houses built according to the Blecken system in the 1920s. The street on which they are located bears the significant name “An den Stahlhäusern”.

From 1934 Blecken taught as a professor at the Technical University in Breslau , of which he was the last rector from 1944 to 1945.

In 1945 Heinrich Blecken took over the chair for structural and industrial design at RWTH Aachen University . From 1946 he worked as a private architect in Wuppertal .

His main areas of work as an architect were regional planning and urban planning as well as settlement (steel house construction).

The following buildings can be found in North Rhine-Westphalia that were planned by Heinrich Blecken as an architect: The House of the Iron Industry in Düsseldorf , built from 1934 to 1935 together with Paul Bonatz , and the House of Ruhrort in Duisburg - Ruhrort , popularly known as the "thousand-window house". and to this day Blecken's most famous building.

After and during his architecture studies at the Technical University of Munich, Heinrich Blecken tried his hand at drawing and caricaturing in the context of the magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus . So he designed z. B. 1909 the program for a mask festival of the German Literature Association with the topic "In the sign of Simplicissimus". In the youth of 1917 there is a contribution by Blecken. Later he devoted himself exclusively to architecture.

Fonts

  • The German steel house . Atlantic-Verlag, Berlin 1929.
  • Advice center for steel use (Ed.): The steel lamellae construction. Blecken system . Industrie-Verlag und Druckerei AG, Düsseldorf 1929 (advertising leaflet).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Blecken. In: arch INFORM .
  2. ↑ a b Ulrike Robeck: All sheet metal. Steel houses. A balance sheet of their development, production and distribution in the Rhenish industrial area. Klartext, Essen 2000, ISBN 3-88474-948-X .
  3. ↑ The University Archive - Memory of the RWTH Aachen
  4. ↑ Jugend , 1917, vol. 22, booklet 2, page 26
personal data
SURNAME Blecken, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1965
Place of death Wuppertal