Konrad Rühl

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Konrad Rühl (born September 2, 1885 in Stettin ; † August 24, 1964 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect , construction clerk and town planner .

Career

Rühl studied architecture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and in Karlsruhe between 1903 and 1908 . From 1908 to 1919, with an interruption due to military service in 1915–1918, he was employed as an architect for the Prussian state building administration. From 1919 to 1921 he was head of the city expansion office in Lübeck, in 1922 he joined the city of Magdeburg as head of the city expansion office. Political reasons led to his change as head of the building construction department of the Rhenish provincial administration in Düsseldorf in 1928. He retired in 1934 as a state building officer.

After a stay in Bloemfontein (South Africa) in 1936/1937 he settled in Berlin and worked there until the end of the war as an unskilled worker (then the usual service designation) at the Reich Railway Directorate, including in the years 1942-1945 in Albert Speer's Reich Ministry . After the end of the war he returned to the Rhineland and was from 1945 to 1947 head of the "State Buildings Group" in the North Rhine Higher Presidium and from 1947 to 1952 State Secretary in the Ministry of Reconstruction of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1952 to 1964 he was managing director and chairman of the North-West (Rhineland-Westphalia) regional group of the German Werkbund .

He was a founding member of the German Academy for Urban Development as well as co-founder and co-editor of the Werkbund monthly magazine Werk und Zeit .

Awards

buildings

  • Women's hospital in Johannistal
  • 1924/25: Cracauer Anger stadium complex, Magdeburg (with Gerhard Gauger)
  • 1927: Hermann-Beims-Siedlung on Große Diesdorfer Straße, Magdeburg Stadtfeld West (with Gerhard Gauger)
  • 1926–1928: Residential buildings at Jenaer and Koburger Strasse in the Westerhüsen housing estate in the Magdeburg district of Westerhüsen
  • 1929: School building of the Rheinische Landes-Blindenanstalt in Düren
  • 1930: New building in the Rheinische Provinzial-Kinderanstalt for mental abnormalities, in Bonn
  • 1928–1933: Construction advice and building construction of the first Cologne-Bonn motorway
  • 1942–1945: Development planning for destroyed Ruhr cities
  • 1960: Laubenganghaus in Gelsenkirchen (with Günter Brockes)

Fonts

  • Housing construction as an urban development factor , in: Die Wohnung 1, H. 1, 1926, S. 3–8.
  • Summary of housing projects . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, vol. 48, 1928, pp. 157–161 ( digitized version ).
  • Memories of Bruno Taut , in: Baukunst und Werkform 12, H. 9, 1959, P. 485–494 and ibid. 13, H. 11, 1960, P. 636

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 3, No. 250, December 29, 1951.
personal data
SURNAME Rühl, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1964
Place of death Dusseldorf