Hellmuth Cuno

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Cuno family grave, Frankfurt main cemetery

Hellmuth Cuno (born August 17, 1867 in Xanten ; † May 5, 1951 in Frankfurt am Main ; full name: Hellmuth Robert Julius Cuno ) was a German architect and industrial manager .

Life

Hellmuth Cuno was born after two sisters and a brother as the fourth child of the architect and Geldern district building officer Carl Cuno and his wife Natalie von Ziemietzky (1843–1912) in Xanten. Since his father became a district building officer in Koblenz in 1869 , he initially grew up there, but was temporarily brought to safety with his aunt in his birthplace Xanten during the Franco-German War with his siblings. He attended elementary school in Koblenz until he moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1875, where his father had become a post office building officer. In 1884 he suffered from a temporary heart condition and later developed rheumatism like his father. Like him, he was often ill, but was still going to be 83 years old.

From an early age he liked to draw and was good at drawing. This legacy of both parents was trained by Heinrich Hasselhorst at the Städel Institute . After attending grammar school in Frankfurt, he attended the Technical University of Charlottenburg for two semesters and joined the Germania Berlin fraternity . In the winter semester of 1889 he moved to the Technical University of Hanover . Among other things, he was a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase . There he trained as a private architect and, to the chagrin of his father, left the university in 1892 without taking an exam.

After a shortened military service as a one-year volunteer due to illness , he initially worked in 1893 as an employee in the joint office of the Frankfurt architects Ludwig Neher and Aage von Kauffmann . In 1900 he headed the joint construction office of the architects Franz von Hoven and Neher in Frankfurt's Römer . At the inauguration of the "Alemannia" connection house in Marburg, which he had built according to his own design, he and his brother met Boeckmann's two daughters from Switzerland, whom they later married. Ina Boeckmann (1870–1942) bore him five children. Three were born in Turkey. A daughter died in 1932 at the age of 26, a son in 1933 at the age of 33.

In 1904 Cuno joined the Philipp Holzmann construction company in Frankfurt am Main. He was used in the construction of the Anatolian Railway and therefore moved with his family to Moda near Constantinople in 1905 , where they lived until the outbreak of the First World War . After returning to Frankfurt, Cuno took over the overall management of building construction, the stonemason and sculpture department and the construction factory in Germany and abroad in the central administration of the construction company Philipp Holzmann. From 1917 he was a member of the company's management board until he moved to the supervisory board in 1932.

After the Second World War and the death of his wife, Hellmuth Cuno married his former secretary, Leonie Pfeiffer, 28 years his junior in 1945. He died in 1951 and, after a large funeral service attended by many people, found his final resting place on May 12, 1951 in Frankfurt's main cemetery .

1899: Liaison house of the Alemannia Marburg fraternity

Buildings and designs

as employees of the architects von Hoven and Neher:

  • 1900: Participation in the artistic direction of the extension of the Frankfurt Römers

in independent professional practice or as a manager of the construction company Philipp Holzmann :

  • 1899: Liaison house of the Alemannia Marburg fraternity
  • Started in 1904: Commercial building for the textile retail company Schwarzschild & Ochs in Frankfurt am Main, Rossmarkt
  • Started in 1904: "To the three rabbits" office building in Frankfurt am Main, Theaterplatz
  • 1904: Competition design (motto "Ruth") for a synagogue in Frankfurt am Main (purchase)
  • 1905–1908: Anatolian railway with the station reception building Haydarpasa and grain silos in Constantinople- Moda (in collaboration with the architect Otto von Kühlmann )
  • 1923: Bank building of the Adriatic Bank in Belgrade
  • 1946: Unsuccessful participation in the tender for the restoration of the Paulskirche in Frankfurt

literature

  • Manfred Pohl : Philipp Holzmann. History of a construction company 1849–1999. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-45339-2 .
  • Johannes Cuno: News of the sex and faring of the Cunoen (1672–1957). (Ed. And edited by Reiner Stephany). Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-86991-554-8 ( book on demand ), in particular pp. 69–147.

Web links

  • Entry on Hellmuth Cuno in the architects and artists database with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , last accessed on June 20, 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Cuno: News of the sex and origin of the Cunoen (1672–1957). (Ed. by Reiner Stephany) Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2012, p. 130
  2. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 24, 1904, No. 83 (from October 15, 1904), p. 520.
personal data
SURNAME Cuno, Hellmuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cuno, Hellmuth Robert Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and industry manager
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Xanten
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1951
Place of death Frankfurt am Main