Hermann Ritter (architect, 1851)

Hermann Ritter (born January 19, 1851 in Liestal ; † May 4, 1918 in Bern ) was a Swiss architect who lived and worked in Frankfurt am Main after completing his studies .

Life

Friedrichshof Palace

Hermann Ritter attended the general trade school in Basel with Kinkelin and then studied at the Zurich Polytechnic with Gottfried Semper , Gullmann and Georg Lasius . After graduating with a diploma in August 1871, he first worked in Georg Lasius' architectural office in Zurich. In 1872 he moved to Frankfurt am Main . There he worked from 1873 to 1876 as a construction manager in the architectural office of Carl Jonas Mylius and Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli during the construction of the Frankfurter Hof hotel . In 1877 Ritter went on a study trip to Italy for almost a year before he became director of the construction company Philipp Holzmann & Cie. In 1878 . entered. There, together with G. Seestren-Pauly and A. Hänle, he was responsible for the company's structural engineering department. In 1895, Ritter took over management of the company as the successor to Philipp Holzmann. On March 29, 1914 he resigned from the management board and joined the advisory board of the GmbH as chairman and later on the supervisory board of the AG.

As an architect he was responsible for the construction of the Friedrichshof Palace in Kronberg im Taunus for the Empress Friedrich . He was the inventor of the perspectograph to transfer geometrical representations into perspective. In 1883 he had the perspective draftsman patented.

In 1903 Ritter was honored with the honorary title of a royal Prussian building councilor . In addition, he received numerous medals from different countries. In 1916 he moved to Bern, where he died.

family

Family grave in the Frankfurt main cemetery

His brother Wilhelm Ritter, who was four years older than him, was a civil engineer and professor at the Zurich Polytechnic.

Hermann Ritter married Amalie Diehl (1857–1890) for the first time in 1878. The marriage had four children:

• Luise Anna (1879–1971), married Luise Fester
• Max Friedrich (1880-1939)
• Emma (1882–1954), married Emma Holzmann
• Anna (1886–1890)

In 1892 he married Emma Günther (1859–1952) for the second time. From this marriage there were two children:

• Hermann Ritter (born September 27, 1893 - † February 1, 1962), architect
• Anna (1896–1976), married Schnebli-Ritter

The family grave in the main cemetery in Frankfurt contains the remains of his first wife Amalie Diehl and his daughter Anna. It is a listed building . The tomb was designed by Hermann Ritter in 1892 for his mother-in-law Eleonore Diehl (1826-1891) and his father-in-law JJ Diehl (1826-1895).

buildings

image	construction time	address	description
	1913	Börsenstrasse 2-4	Residential and commercial building (together with Wilhelm Schmitt, under monument protection )
	1886	Eschersheimer Landstrasse 4	Dr. Hoch'sches Conservatory (converted in 1909 into the Frankfurt am Main adult education center)
0	1892	Gallus system 8	Building the Frankfurter Hypothekenbank
	1896	Große Gallusstraße 2–2a	Residential and commercial building (under monument protection)
0	1894	Gutleutstrasse 231 / Speicherstrasse	Electricity works (execution of designs by Franz von Hoven)
0	1901	Gutzkowstrasse 29	Tenement house
0	1907	Gutzkowstrasse 34	Tenement house
0	1906	Hufnagestrasse 32-24, 36-38, 45-59, 48-54	Tenement group of the royal Prussian railway operations inspection in Frankfurt
0	1903	Junghofstrasse 1–11	Gene building of the Deutsche Vereinsbank (together with Eugen Rückgauer , under monument protection, see also Große Gallusstraße 2–2a)
0	1903	Kaiserstrasse 30	Building of the securities and exchange bank
0	1887	New Mainzer Strasse 69	Building of the Frankfurt bank
	1902-05	Reuterweg 14	Administration building of the metal company (together with Christoph Emil Heßler , under monument protection)
	1904	Rossmarkt 13	Residential and commercial building (together with Hellmuth Cuno , under monument protection)
0	1902	Rossmarkt 18	Building of the Frankfurter Disconto-Gesellschaft and the Hessische Bank (under monument protection, see also Große Gallusstraße 2–2a)
	1891	Schubertstrasse 15/17	Tenement houses (monument protection as part of a complete system)
0	1905	Schweizer Strasse 41	Tenement house
	1898	Taunusanlage 20	Administration building of the Frankfurt insurance company Providentia (together with Theodor Martin, under monument protection)
0	1889	Line 23	Tenement house
0	1894	Line 121	Residential and commercial building

literature

• Monument Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main (Ed.), Thomas Zeller (Ed.): The architects and their building activities in Frankfurt am Main from 1870 to 1950. Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-921606-51-9 , p 306 f.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Ritter (architect)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Frankfurt main cemetery: Hermann Ritter (1851–1918). In: Website of the Frankfurt main cemetery.
• FEDERAL ARCHIVE - Central database for estates In: nachlassdatenbank.de . Retrieved on August 30, 2016 (information about Hermann Ritter's estate in the Frankfurt Institute for City History).

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