Hermann Rudolph (architect)

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Rudolph family crypt with memorial plaque in Teplitz (photo 2014)

Hermann Rudolph (born December 5, 1846 in Oelsnitz in the Erzgebirge , † April 30, 1924 in Teplice ; full name Carl Herrmann Eduard Rudolph , spelling of the name later changed to Hermann ) was a German architect who worked in Bohemia or in the Czechoslovakia was resident and active.

Life

Hermann Rudolph attended the upper school in Oelsnitz from 1852 to 1861 . After finishing school he started an apprenticeship in a carpentry shop in Lichtenstein / Sa. He then studied at the Bauewerkschule Holzminden and from 1868 at the Dresden Art Academy , where he graduated with honors.

Rudolph first worked in Bernhard Schreiber's architectural office in Dresden and was involved in the construction of the Albert Theater and the Palais Kap-herr in Dresden, before he took over the construction management for the Teplitz City Theater in 1872.

In 1874 Hermann Rudolph settled in Teplitz as a freelance architect . In 1875 he married Johanna Auguste nee Stey, with whom he had three children. One daughter, Johanna Emilie Rudolph (1876–1947), married Hermann Dudek († 1910) in 1910, one of the sons of the factory owner of the zinc white works in Bernsdorf, Josef Hermann Dudek. In 1875 he designed the new Teplitz synagogue , which was completed in 1882 under his construction management. In addition to his professional activity as an architect, Rudolph worked with his brother-in-law Richard Baldauf as a mining entrepreneur and from 1891 ran the Baldauf-Rudolph lignite works in Sobrusan . In addition, Hermann Rudolph was a city ​​councilor in Teplitz and was active as a patron , including for the Teplitz Museum Society and as the founder of the Hermann-Rudolph-Fountain in his native Oelsnitz. In 1915 he created the Villa Rudolph for his family at Elisabethstrasse 39 (today ul. Chelčického) in Teplitz, where he also died.

Rudolph was buried in the Teplice town cemetery. His grave was given a plaque in 2013.

  • Palais Kap-herr (burnt out in 1945, later demolished)

  • City Theater Teplitz (destroyed by fire in 1919)

  • New synagogue in Teplitz (destroyed by arson in 1939)

  • Hermann Rudolph Fountain in Oelsnitz (renovated in 2009)

literature

  • Kurt Rudolph: The life and work of Carl Hermann Eduard Rudolph (1846-1924). In: Oelsnitzer Heimatschriften , year 2014, issue 1, p. 1 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudolph, Carl Herrmann Eduard (full name); Rudolph, Herrmann (original spelling of the nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1924
Place of death Teplice