Heinrich Rettig

Heinrich Rettig (born June 23, 1900 in Speyer , † April 20, 1974 in Dresden ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Heinrich Rettig was one of the architects of the Barkhausen building at the TU Dresden from 1950 to 1961 , here the entrance to its Heinz Schönfeld lecture hall.

Rettig studied from 1919 to 1922 at the TH Darmstadt and from 1923 to 1925 at the TH Stuttgart , where he was taught by Paul Bonatz and Paul Schmitthenner , among others . After completing his studies, he began to work for Richard Riemerschmid in Cologne and in 1927 was employed by the municipal building authorities in Mainz and Cologne, where he stayed until 1930. In Cologne he was involved in the design of the university's new building under construction director Adolf Abel .

He followed Abel to Munich in 1930, where he was hired as his assistant at the Technical University . From 1934 Rettig worked as a freelance architect including Munich and Pasing , where he together with Friedrich Laemmle and Heinrich Volbehr the Pasinger city hall , the first municipal construction in the Munich area designed. The foundation stone was laid on July 19, 1936, and the inauguration took place the following year.

Heinrich Rettig went to the TH Dresden in 1942 , where he was appointed full professor for handicrafts, building theory and designing buildings in 1943. Even after the end of the war, Rettig worked as a freelance architect and in 1948 took over the position of professor for handicrafts and building design at the Weimar University of Fine Arts . From 1949 to 1965, Rettig worked again as a professor for building construction and design at the TH Dresden, where he designed numerous new buildings with other architects, such as the Barkhausen Building or the Willers Building . In addition to Gerhard Hempel and Wolfgang Rauda , Rettig was one of the more conservative professors in the architecture department of the TH Dresden, who opposed government efforts to influence the university. In 1966, the now emeritus professor was awarded the Heinrich Tessenow Medal . Heinrich Rettig died in Dresden in 1974.

Buildings (selection)

• 1940–1941: Hitler buildings on Keplerstrasse in Linz (part of the Bachlfeldsiedlung)
• 1950–1961: Barkhausen building of the TU Dresden
• 1950–1955: Willers building at TU Dresden
• 1952–1955: Zellescher Weg student residences in Dresden
• 1953: New construction of the building for the workers and farmers faculty at Weberplatz in Dresden
• 1953–1955: Trefftz building at TU Dresden (with Walter Henn )
• 1953–1956: formerly POS "Walter Ulbricht" (first new school building in the GDR) in Zwickau
• 1956: Reconstruction of the court gardening facility for use by the Reformed parish in Dresden (replaced their previous church building )
• 1960–1963: Student dormitories St. Petersburger Strasse in Dresden (with Manfred Gruber and Rolf Ermisch)
• 1961: Toepler building at TU Dresden
• 1962–1964: high-rise buildings on Freiberger Strasse 2–8 in Dresden

Fonts

• The doors of the small apartment (1947)
• The Windows of the Small Apartment (1947)
• Wooden window. Improvement of the design and manufacture of fittings and gears (1952)
• Architecture and mass production (1954)
• Course and limits of the cost reduction for various components of the shell and construction through standardization and mass production (1954)
• Savings and improvements through unbundling construction (1954)
• Economical school buildings (1955)
• Construction Tables (1958)

Awards

• 1966: Heinrich Tessenow Medal

Sources and literature

• University archive of the Technical University of Dresden
• 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 , p. 767.
• Technical University of Dresden: buildings and names. 2nd, revised edition. Technical University of Dresden, Dresden 1997, ISBN 3-86005-176-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Newsletter of the German Science and Technology, organ of the Reich Research Council (Hrsg.): Research and progress . Staff news. Appointments. tape 19, 23/24 , 1943, pp. 252 .
2. ^ City of Linz, monuments

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Rettig in the catalog of the German National Library