Hugo Rahtgens

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Hugo Georg Rahtgens (born December 8, 1872 in Lübeck ; † January 13, 1946 there ) was a German civil engineer and architectural historian .

Life

Hugo Rahtgens came from a Lübeck book printer family and was the younger son of the printer Johannes Nicolaus Heinrich Rahtgens (1822–1907) and his wife Alwine. The later provost of Eutin, Paul Rahtgens, was his older brother. He studied at the Technical University of Dresden and was here in 1903 with a dissertation on architectural history, the Basilica di Santa Maria e San Donato on Murano to Dr.-Ing. PhD. He was first assistant to Cornelius Gurlitt in Dresden and then from 1904 to Paul Clemen in Bonn and Cologne . Under Clemen, he worked for the inventory work Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz and worked on churches in Cologne.

From July 1, 1914 to the end of February 1919, he was the responsible manager and main processor of the inventory of art monuments in the structural engineering department of what was then the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . At the end of the First World War he came back to Lübeck and at the beginning of 1919 got a job as a research assistant for the inventory of architectural and art monuments in the state territory of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. On June 30, 1933 “he resigned from his employment in order to work as a freelancer on completing the inventory”.

He was the uncle of lieutenant colonel and resistance fighter Carl Ernst Rahtgens (1908–1944).

Fonts

  • S. Donato to Murano and similar Venetian buildings. Berlin: Wasmuth, 1903 (contributions to building science 3)
Digitized in the Internet Archive
  • The Church of S. Maria in the Capitol in Cologne. Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1913
  • (With Wilhelm Ewald) The art monuments of the city of Cologne. Part: The church monuments of the city of Cologne 1. St. Alban, St. Andreas, Antoniterkirche, St. Aposteln, St. Cäcilia, St. Columba, St. Cunibert, Elendskirche, St. Georg. Düsseldorf: Schwann 1916, reprint 1980, ISBN 3-590-32103-2
  • (with Hermann Roth) The art monuments of the city of Cologne. 3., Minoritenkirche, S. Pantaleon, S. Peter, S. Severin. Düsseldorf: Schwann 1929, reprint 1980, ISBN 3-590-32105-9
  • (with Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns ) The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thinking and way crosses and the passion of Christ. Lübeck: Nöhring 1928, facsimile reprint 2001, ISBN 3-89557-168-7
  • The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck / Bd. 1. / T. 1. City plans and views, city fortifications. 1939
  • (posthumous) The Lübeck town hall. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1947 (large monuments 57)
  • (posthumous) The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck part: Vol. 1. / T. 2., town hall and public buildings of the city. 1974, ISBN 3-7950-0034-3

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François Igersheim: Un inventaire des monuments historiques d'Alsace qui ne verra pas le jour: L'inventaire de Georg Dehio et Hugo Rahtgens. In: Mélanges Roger Lehni. 2003, pp. 127-136
  2. ↑ stock: 03.03-09 - monuments: Preface , archive Lübeck
  3. ^ Andreas Kurschat: Carl Ernst Rahtgens (1908–1944). Military resistance based on Christian beliefs. In: Zeitschrift des Verein für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 87 (2007), pp. 181–202.
personal data
SURNAME Rahtgens, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rahtgens, Hugo Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and architectural historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1946
Place of death Lübeck