Hugo Röttcher

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The train station in Cologne-Deutz, designed by Hugo Röttcher
Water tower of the former Tempelhof marshalling yard
Cemetery chapel in the Elstal settlement

Hugo Röttcher (born September 14, 1878 in Lüneburg ; † May 2, 1942 Berlin-Steglitz ; full name August Eduard Hugo Röttcher ) was a German architect who made a name for himself as a railway construction officer , especially with the construction of train stations.

Professional background

Hugo Röttcher was born as the son of the Evangelical Lutheran married couple Heinrich Röttcher and Wilhelmine Röttcher, née Wellenkamp, ​​born in Lüneburg. His father ran the station inn there .

One month after passing his second state examination and being appointed Royal Government Builder, Hugo Röttcher was transferred to the structural engineering office of the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs in Berlin for employment. His work there consisted in the preparation of draft sketches for building structures to be carried out. In September 1908 he was transferred to the Royal Railway Directorate in Cologne . At that time, extensive expansion work was taking place, especially in the area of ​​the city of Cologne . Obviously, Röttcher proved himself at this point, as on June 1, 1912 he was awarded a budgetary position as a government master builder at the Cologne Railway Directorate.

Under government and building advisor Karl Biecker , Röttcher took on the development of the drafts and the subsequent execution of the high-rise buildings of the Deutz train station . With its oval domed structure flanked by protruding wing structures, the reception building was built in the form of the palace architecture of Baroque Classicism . After the damage during the Second World War , parts of the east wing were restored with the old structure but without ornamentation.

At the opening of the lower part of the Deutz tower station on November 10, 1913, Hugo Röttcher was awarded the Royal Crown Order IV class by the highest authority . At the beginning of 1914, Röttcher joined the Royal Railway Directorate in Kassel as a government master builder . The First World War presumably prevented major construction activity there. Röttcher was drafted as a soldier for military service and was awarded the Iron Cross II class in December 1914 and the Iron Cross I class in July 1918. After the transition from the Prussian State Railways to the Deutsche Reichseisenbahn on April 1, 1920, he was transferred to the Berlin Railway Directorate in April 1921 , where he was given a senior government and building council position shortly after taking up his duties. As a department head he was a member of the management at the Berlin Railway Directorate. On April 1, 1924, Röttcher was promoted to the rank of Reichsbahnoberrat before he was appointed director of the Reichsbahn on December 1, 1930. He received another promotion on October 1, 1933, when he was appointed Reichsbahndirektor and department head in the headquarters of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft. As a result of the law on the reorganization of relations between the Reichsbank and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of February 10, 1937, the main administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft was transferred to the Reich Ministry of Transport. The title of Röttcher changed to Ministerialrat , since he had held this rank for more than five years, he was equal to the president according to the rank of service. In this position, Hugo Röttcher was the highest-ranking structural engineer for the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

During his tenure, Röttcher designed numerous train station buildings, for example the buildings for several S-Bahn stations in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s . In those years the steam-powered train in Berlin was electrified.

After 1925, Röttcher was commissioned to redesign the Heiligensee station , but this was not realized due to financial difficulties of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. He had planned the reception building in a country house style; the civil servants' houses at the train station, which were kept in a similar style, were, however, executed. According to a design by Röttcher, the now listed steel water tower of the former Tempelhof marshalling yard was built in 1928 , which is now partially expanded into the southern area of the nature park .

Röttcher was one of the architects who contributed to the transformation of Berlin into the world capital Germania . The " House of German Tourism " on the so-called " Round Square ", which he designed together with Theodor Dierksmeier , could not be completed because of the war. On July 14, 1939, the NSDAP's commissioner for construction , General Building Inspector Albert Speer, together with Wilhelm Kreis , Hermann Giesler , Leonhard Gall , Fritz Todt and Baldur von Schirach founded the Greater German Order of Architects in Berlin . On the same day, Speer, Kreis, Giesler and Gall appointed numerous architects to this order, including the Ministerialrat Röttcher. Röttcher is also listed in a directory dated January 23, 1941 of the architects involved in the “redesign” of Berlin.

plant

Buildings and designs

Jannowitzbrücke S-Bahn station
  • 1911–1914: Entrance building for the Cologne-Deutz train station (under the direction and in collaboration with Karl Biecker)
  • 1923–1924: Residential houses for railway workers on Boyenallee in Berlin-Westend
  • 1927: -0000Water tower on the Tempelhof marshalling yard in Berlin-Tempelhof, Prellerweg
  • 1927–1932: Reconstruction of the Jannowitzbrücke S-Bahn station in Berlin-Mitte
  • before 1928: Elstal–0 railway settlement including cemetery chapel (together with Reichsbahnbaumeister Kurt Rasenack)
  • 1928–1929: Church of the Kirchmöser West housing estate near Brandenburg adHavel ( location )
  • 1933–1934: Building of the Reichsbahnfunk pre-receiving office in Berlin-Lichterfelde, Ostpreußendamm 144–149
  • 1935: -0000Reconstruction of Eichkamp station (later: Berlin Messe Süd station ; together with Reichsbahnoberrat Fritz Hane)
  • 1938–1939: House of German Tourism in Berlin, Runder Platz / Potsdamer Straße 56 (with Theodor Dierksmeier; broken off in 1962/1963)

Fonts

  • Smaller residential buildings in the Reichsbahn directorate in Berlin. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 44, 1924, No. 17 (from April 23, 1924), pp. 133f.
  • (together with Erich Schonert and Richard Brademann as editors): The centenary of the Berlin Architects' Association. 1824-1924. A review and a memory. Berlin 1925.
  • Buildings of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. Entrance building of the passenger stations. Publishing house of the Verkehrswwissenschaftlichen Lehrmittelgesellschaft mbH at the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Berlin 1933.
  • (together with Reichsbahnrat Otto Falck): The history of the house Wilhelmstr. 79 on the Friedrichstadt in Berlin. Konkordia-Verlag, Leipzig 1936.

Web links

Commons : Hugo Röttcher  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lüneburg City Archives, birth certificate no. 410/1878.
  2. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 26, 1906, No. 53 (from June 30, 1906), p. 335.
  3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 26, 1906, No. 57 (from July 14, 1906), p. 359.
  4. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 73 (from September 12, 1908), p. 489.
  5. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 32, 1912, No. 49 (from June 15, 1912), p. 305.
  6. ↑ a b c Directory of the upper Reichsbahn officials 1936 , 32nd year 1936, Berlin 1936, p. 12.
  7. ↑ rheinische-industriekultur.de
  8. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger No. 520 IV. Of November 10, 1913.
  9. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 33rd year 1913, No. 97 (from December 6, 1913), p. 669.
  10. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 34, 1914, No. 1 (from January 3, 1914), p. 1.
  11. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 35th year 1915, No. 1 (from January 2, 1915), p. 2.
  12. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 38, 1918, No. 59/60 (from July 20, 1918), p. 289.
  13. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 41st year 1921, No. 27 (from April 2, 1921), p. 165.
  14. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 41st year 1921, No. 35 (from April 30, 1921), p. 217.
  15. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 41st year 1921, No. 54 (from July 6, 1921), p. 334f.
  16. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 50, 1930, No. 49 (from December 10, 1930), p. 840.
  17. ^ Directory of the upper Reichsbahn officials 1941 , 37th year 1941, Berlin 1941, p. 13.
  18. ↑ kremmener-bahn.net
  19. ↑ baunetz.de
  20. ^ Uwe Kieling: Berlin. Buildings and master builders from the Gothic to 1945. Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8148-0095-8 ; Here p. 217 f.
  21. ^ Brigitte Jacob: Emil Fahrenkamp . Buildings and projects for Berlin. Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939633-31-0 , p. 453.
  22. ^ Brigitte Jacob: Emil Fahrenkamp. Buildings and projects for Berlin. Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939633-31-0 , p. 460.
  23. ↑ u. a. Kölner Stadtanzeiger , No. 520 IV. Of November 10, 1913.
  24. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  25. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  26. ^ Martin Kießling : Architecture, Architects and Reichsbahn. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 48, 1928, No. 44 (October 31, 1928), pp. 705–712; Here p. 705 a. 712.
  27. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
  28. ^ Martin Kießling: Architecture, Architects and Reichsbahn. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 48, 1928, No. 44 (October 31, 1928), pp. 705–712; Here p. 710 a. 712
  29. ↑ Entry No. 09145295 in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  30. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  31. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
personal data
SURNAME Röttcher, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Röttcher, August Eduard Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1942
Place of death Berlin-Steglitz