Herbert Rimpl
Herbert Rimpl (born January 25, 1902 in Malmitz , Silesia , † June 2, 1978 in Wiesbaden ) was a German architect . He is considered to be one of the most important industrial architects in the time of National Socialism .
Life
Herbert Rimpl was born in Mallmitz, Silesia in 1902 as the son of the technician Ferdinand Rimpl and his wife Ella, née Wornast. In 1909 the family moved to the Lodz region . Until 1922 Rimpl attended the Realgymnasium in Kadaň (formerly Kaaden). From the winter semester 1922/23 he studied architecture with Theodor Fischer and German Bestelmeyer at the TH Munich . After completing his studies in Munich in mid-1926 and working in Theodor Fischer's office, he started working for Rhein-Main-Donau AG in July 1926 . From August 1927 to the beginning of 1929 he was a construction trainee at the Oberpostdirektion and government master builder in Augsburg . Among other things, he designed the motor vehicle hall in Kempten (Allgäu) for the post office . He then moved to Dominikus Böhm's office in Cologne . Rimpl became project manager in a branch office that Böhm opened in Zabrze (formerly Hindenburg) in Upper Silesia . From April 1933 he worked as a curator at the Kunstverein Augsburg .
On April 1, 1933, Rimpl joined the NSDAP (membership number 1,809,367). In 1934 he became head of the construction department at Heinkel-Werke with around 700 employees. In response to a request from Carl Clemens Bücker , in 1935 he took on the order for the new construction of the Rangsdorf plant for Bücker Flugzeugbau , which had close ties to Heinkel. 1937–1945 Rimpl worked as chief architect in Salzgitter and Linz for the Hermann-Göring-Werke . In 1944 he was appointed to Albert Speer's staff . He carried out numerous reconstruction plans for the destroyed German cities. His office was responsible for several dozen construction projects related to the underground relocation of the defense industry. The best known is the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp , where primarily the “ Vergeltungswaffe 1 ” and “ Vergeltungswaffe 2 ” were produced.
At the end of 1946, Herbert Rimpl in Neunburg vorm Wald in the Upper Palatinate was denazified on the basis of incomplete information and classified as not affected. The proceedings were restarted in early 1948. Rimpl argued that he never joined the NSDAP . On March 23, 1948, the court proceedings concluded with the determination that Rimpl was not affected by the law for the liberation from National Socialism and militarism.
Rimpl opened its own office in Mainz as early as 1946 .
In 1949 he was proposed by the Hessian Ministry of Culture as director of the State University Building Office for the TH Darmstadt , which was founded in July 1949 . The appointment was carried out despite massive resistance from the TH. The background to the protest was the fear of the Darmstadt architecture professors that they would not be given enough consideration in the upcoming orders. Christoph Miller , favored by Darmstadt's architecture professors , was initially left behind, as he could not be hired immediately because of his denazification. Rimpl, together with his employees, developed several variants of the reconstruction planning of the TH Darmstadt in 1949. In one variant, the area of the Lichtwiese has already been planned. However, the majority of the Senate and Building Commission advocated an expansion in the city center. In January 1950 he ended this activity.
Rimpl ran an architectural office in Wiesbaden from 1950 . He took part in numerous competitions and was able to achieve top places. His most important buildings after 1950 include the Federal Criminal Police Office (1951–1954) in Wiesbaden, the HOAG administration building (1954) in Gelsenkirchen , the post office in Düsseldorf- Oberbilk (1953) and the Amelia-Earhart-Hotel (1955–1956) in Wiesbaden , the Heilig-Geist-Kirche (1961) in Wiesbaden-Biebrich , the state engineering school (1957–1964) Gauß in Berlin , the academies for the Federal Post Office (1964–1974) in Dieburg . In addition, he built numerous residential buildings, schools and administrative buildings.
From 1955 to 1964 he was a member of the architectural advisory board of the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden.
Rimpl was married to Dorothea-Elisabeth Gronau (1908-2006). The children Wolfgang (* 1939), Inga Freifrau Speck von Sternburg (1940-2018) and Lothar (* 1943) emerged from the marriage. Rimpl died almost unnoticed on June 2, 1978 in Wiesbaden.
About him
“I wasn't a fucking architect like z. B. Rimpl, who produced km-long Nazi facades! "
Honors
- 1939: Admission to the Great German Order of Architects.
- 1940: War Merit Cross 2nd Class.
- 1941: War Merit Cross 1st Class.
- 1943: Professor title awarded by Adolf Hitler .
buildings
- 1934: Heinkel administration building in Rostock
- 1935: Bücker Flugzeugbau plant at the Reichssportflughafen Rangsdorf (chief planner: Otto Meyer-Ottens )
- 1934–1936: Heinkel factory in Oranienburg
- 1936–1938: Leegebruch and White City housing estates in Oranienburg
- 1937–1938: Operating facilities of the Haverlahwiese mine in Salzgitter
- 1938–1939: Kniestedt housing estate in Salzgitter
- 1940: Bindermichl settlement in Linz
- 1938–1944: Münichholz settlement in Steyr
- 1949–1950: US Army Crestview Housing Estate in Wiesbaden
- 1953–1954: Office building of the Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden
- 1954: Administration building of the wire works of the HOAG in Gelsenkirchen , Kurt-Schumacher-Straße (with Otto Prinz [1902–1958])
- 1958–1959: Administration building of the State Insurance Company Hessen in Frankfurt am Main
- 1959–1960: Holy Spirit Church in Wiesbaden-Biebrich
- 1961–1964: Friedrich Gauß engineering school in Berlin (today Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin )
- 1961–1967: St. Paulus Community Center (school, kindergarten and Catholic parish church) with the White Rose Square in Fulda
- 1964–1971: Engineering Academy of the Deutsche Bundespost (later FH) (auditorium, lecture hall building, cafeteria, student dormitories, gym, swimming pool) in Dieburg (partially demolished) (today: Campus Dieburg of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences )
- until 1974: Vocational training center of the Oberpostdirektion ("Poststadt") in Bremen
literature
- Hermann Mäckler : A German aircraft factory. The Heinkel-Werke Oranienburg. Architect Herbert Rimpl. Wiking, Berlin undated (1939/1940).
- Norbert Rohde : Historical military objects of the Oberhavel region, Volume 1: The Heinkel aircraft factory Oranienburg. Velten Verlag GmbH, Leegebruch 2006, ISBN 3-9811401-0-9 .
- Isabel Schmidt: The TH Darmstadt in the post-war period (1945–1960), dissertation, Darmstadt 2014.
- Jo Sollich : Herbert Rimpl (1902-1978), architecture group under Hermann Göring and Albert Speer - architect of the German reconstruction. Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-496-01481-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sollich 2013, pp. 47–48.
- ^ Raimund Locicnik : Münichholz: 4500 apartments were planned. Upper Austrian News , October 2, 2013.
- ↑ Der Baumeister , born 1955, issue 5.
- ^ Karin Berkemann: Fulda - St. Paulus. In: Strasse der Moderne - Churches in Germany. German Liturgical Institute, accessed on May 18, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rimpl, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malmitz , Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2nd 1978 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |