René von Schöfer

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René Désiré Victor Ferhad von Schöfer (born April 21, 1883 in Tehran ; † July 6, 1954 in Aachen ) was a German architect , archaeologist , town planner and university professor of Austrian origin.

Life

René von Schöfer was the son of the Imperial and Royal Legation Councilor a. D. Julius von Schöfer and Ella geb. Pohl. The family belonged to the Austrian knighthood. After attending the Benedictine grammar school in Ödenburg and the Theresianum in Vienna , he studied law and political science from 1902 to 1904 and switched to the University of Budapest in 1904 , where he completed his studies in 1906 and then passed the first and second state exams. In 1903 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . From 1907 to 1911 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich . On behalf of the German Archaeological Institute, he undertook extensive architectural and archaeological studies in Pompeii from 1911 to 1914 and was assistant to Theodor Fischer at the TH Munich from 1920 to 1926 . Through his building recordings of the Casa del Fauno in Pompeii , he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD. In the same year he accepted a professorship for design, building design, urban planning and building design at RWTH Aachen University . In 1935 he became dean of the Faculty of Construction. In 1937 he turned down a call to the Technical University of Stuttgart . In 1943 he retired, but continued to teach until 1951. Erich Kühn became his successor.

Shaped by Theodor Fischer, Schöfer represented factual forms and surfaces in architecture, rejecting the ornament of the Wilhelminian era. Its construction planning for the city of Jülich after the Second World War was of particular importance . Together with Otto Gruber , Hans Mehrtens and Hans Schwippert, in a modification of the Stuttgart School, he is a representative of the Aachen School .

Von Schöfer's academic students included: a. the architecture professor Maria Schwarz , his assistant, the city planning department and architect in Aachen, Prof. Dr. Ing.Wilhelm Kaspar Fischer, and his co-worker, the architect and construction officer Karlheinz Sundermann .

Schöfer was married to Elisabeth von Schubert. They had two sons.

Work (selection)

building

  • Town hall in Schleiden
  • Town hall in Ratheim
  • Town hall in Jülich, 1953/54
  • School in Hilfarth
  • High school in Schleiden
  • New building for the Nellessen cloth factory on the corner of Mörgensstrasse and Hubertusstrasse. using residual substance and including the old chimney, 1952
  • St. Jakob (Aachen) , reconstruction after the Second World War

  • Town hall in Jülich, Marktplatz 1 (monument, 1953/54)

  • Jülich Town Hall, back

  • Town hall in Ratheim

  • Aachen Peterstrasse, "Small Skyscraper"

  • St Jakob Aachen (reconstruction 1949/53)

  • St Jacob Aachen

  • Chimney and remains of the Nellessen cloth factory. Today rehearsal stage of the Aachen City Theater.

Urban planning and urban planning reports

  • Aachen
  • Jülich
  • Hückelhoven
  • Solingen

Fonts

  • Support systems from the House of the Faun in Pompeii. 1926 (Dissertation TH Munich).

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Schöfer, René von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 210 .
  • Moritz Wild: Architecture and urban planning in the administrative district of Aachen. René von Schöfer (1883–1954) . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2019 (Rhenish Monument Preservation Workbook; 85) (Dissertation, RWTH Aachen University, 2017), ISBN 978-3-7319-0860-9 .
  • Moritz Wild: Public buildings by the homeland security architect René von Schöler . In: INSITU 2018/2, pp. 281–294.
  • Gustav Gotthilf Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 252.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moritz Wild: Architecture and Urban Development in the Twenties and Fifties in the Aachen District René von Schöfer 1883-1954, Dissertation RWTH Aachen, June 28, 2017 . Ed .: Website of the RWTH Aachen University Library. S. 11 eff .
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19, 758.
  3. ^ Moritz Wild: Urban planning and architecture studies in Aachen under René von Schöfer. (No longer available online.) Chamber of Architects North Rhine-Westphalia, February 25, 2016, archived from the original on March 23, 2018 ; accessed on March 22, 2018 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aknw.de
  4. ^ Ulrich Kalkmann: The Technical University of Aachen in the Third Reich (1933–1945), 2003, p. 99.
  5. ↑ Stephan Strauß: Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz and the space city, dissertation TU Dortmund 2005, p. 15 ( PDF ).
  6. ^ René von Schöfer: Historical building form theory or phenomenology and design theory? Der Baumeister, 1932, accessed on March 23, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ Moritz Wild: Architecture and Urban Development in the Twenties and Fifties in the Aachen District, René von Schöfer 1883-1954, Dissertation Aachen June 28, 2017 . Ed .: Internet pages of the RWTH Aachen University Library. S. 278 .
  8. ↑ Jungmann Design: Rheinische Industriekultur. Retrieved March 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schöfer, René von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schöfer, René Désiré Victor Ferhad von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1954
Place of death Aachen