Paul Ranft
Michael Paul Ranft (born November 20, 1854 in Treben , then Sachsen-Altenburg , † February 18, 1938 in Leipzig ) was a German civil engineer and architect who specialized in industrial buildings.
Life
Paul Ranft was a son of the church council and pastor in Hermsdorf (Thuringia) Friedrich Albin Ranft († 1901) and his wife Konkordia Pauline, b. Concern.
After attending grammar school in Eisenberg , he did military service as a one-year volunteer in the royal Saxon army in 1874/75 . He then received training at the Royal Saxon Trade Academy in Chemnitz ; from 1877 to 1881 he studied at the Technical University of Dresden . In 1882 he joined the royal Saxon hydraulic engineering inspection as an assistant engineer in Meissen . In the following years he worked for the Berlin company Scharowsky, including in Stettin . In 1896 he opened in Leipzig, Inselstr. 14, a technical bureau for engineering work . He specialized in large industrial plants such as shipyards. He placed particular emphasis on good light, fresh air supply and the hygienically perfect condition of all workplaces and friendly lounges.
In the Association of German Engineers , he was active both in the Leipzig district association and in the main association as chairman and member of the board.
He built a country house in Großdeuben , which he had to sell at the end of the 1920s as a result of the global economic crisis .
Since 1887 he was married to Anna Friederike Elisabeth, b. Flügel (1855–1939), the youngest daughter of the church musician and composer Gustav Flügel , whom he met in Stettin. Paul and Elisabeth Ranft had five children, four sons and a daughter.
Paul Ranft was buried on February 22, 1938 in the Johannisfriedhof in Leipzig.
buildings
A brochure published by the engineering office in 1928 or 1929 lists 168 buildings for all purposes of industry in all parts of Germany, especially in Leipzig and the surrounding area, but also abroad, in Leicestershire , Warsaw , Manila and São Paulo . These include:
- Hengst furniture factory in Pirna, from 1899
- Hugo Bestehorn paper mill and printer in Magdeburg, 1902/03 and 1911/12
- Vulkan shipyard in Hamburg, 1907–1909
- Expansion of the HC Bestehorn factory in Aschersleben , 1910–1911 (architectural design by Hans Heckner )
- Airship hangar at Leipzig-Mockau Airport , 1913 (destroyed in 1917; then the largest airship hangar in the world: 193 m long, 77 m wide, 32 m high)
- Lübeck Mechanical Engineering Society (LMG)
- Henry Koch shipyard in Lübeck with boiler house (Lübeck) , 1924
Honors
- May 25, 1912: Honorary title (royal Saxon) building officer
- 1913: Royal Saxon Order of Albrecht , Knight's Cross 1st class
- Royal Saxon War Merit Cross
- October 9, 1932: Decoration of honor from the Association of German Engineers (VDI) (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Leipzig District Association)
- posthumously: Establishment of the Paul Ranft Foundation to support ailing engineers by the Leipzig district association of the VDI
literature
- Who is who ?: The German who's who. 9 (1928), p. 1229
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary
- ^ According to Michael Albrecht Ranft: New Genealogical-Historical News on the History of the Ranft Family i. Sa. Ranftscher Familienverband 1962, quoted here
- ^ The new shipyard of the Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan in Hamburg I u. II. In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers (ZVDI) , 53rd year 1909, p. 34 f.
- ^ Journal of Architecture and Engineering , 60th year 1914, p. 227.
- ^ Peter Guth, Bernd Sikora, Bertram Kober: Art Nouveau & Werkkunst. Architecture around 1900 in Leipzig. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-361-00590-6 , p. 58.
- ^ State manual for the Kingdom of Saxony. 1914, p. 43.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ranft, Paul |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ranft, Michael Paul (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer and architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1854 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Treben |
DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1938 |
Place of death | Leipzig |