Reinhard Riemerschmid

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Reinhard Riemerschmid (born May 17, 1914 in Munich ; † 1996 ) was a German architect and university professor .

family

His father was the entrepreneur Robert Riemerschmid (born March 18, 1885 in Munich; † 1963), who was a co-founder of the Bavarian radio and is considered the inventor of the Escorial liqueur . Reinhard's older brother was Heinrich Riemerschmid († 1991), who sold the family company, which was threatened with bankruptcy, to the Underberg Group before his death . Reinhard was the great-nephew of the architect Richard Riemerschmid .

Life

Trinity Church in Hamburg-Hamm

Riemerschmid studied at the Technical University of Munich , where he obtained the academic degree of graduate engineer . After 1945 he worked independently in Munich and was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA). The focus of his work was in Bavaria, but he also prevailed in architecture competitions elsewhere.

From the 1950s onwards he built numerous moderate-modern sacred buildings . The Dreifaltigkeitskirche he built in Hamburg-Hamm is one of the most modern north German church buildings of the 1950s.

Riemerschmid also worked as a lecturer at the Technical University of Munich , namely 1946–1954 for building theory and perspective at the Institute for Garden Design in Weihenstephan and 1946–1958 for building survey at the architecture department.

Buildings and designs

Reconstruction of Blumenstrasse 7 in Munich

Web links

Commons : Reinhard Riemerschmid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonia Gruhn-Zimmermann:  Riemerschmid, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 598 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. Hamburg Monument Protection Office (ed.), Karin Berkemann: "Architecture of Tomorrow!" Hamburg's post-war churches. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937904-60-3 , p. 37.