Robert Schmohl

Robert Schmohl (born August 19, 1855 in Isny , † August 18, 1944 in Bielefeld ; full name: Robert Friedrich Schmohl ) was a German architect who gained importance as head of construction in the Krupp Group and city ​​councilor for the city of Essen .

Live and act

Schmohl was a son of the builder Friedrich Schmohl (1827-1896) and his wife Augusta Florine Schmohl nee Mayer (1827-1906). He studied construction at the Stuttgart Polytechnic and married Margarethe Reiniger from Stuttgart in 1892 , with whom he had three daughters and two sons.

After passing the first state examination in 1875 , he began a legal traineeship at the royal Württemberg railway engineering office in Heilbronn in 1876 . The second state examination followed in 1881 and he was appointed government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration). From 1881 to 1883 Schmohl worked in the architectural office of Ludwig Eisenlohr and Carl Weigle in Stuttgart, from May to October 1884 in the office of Alfred Chiodera and Theophil Tschudy in Zurich , whereupon from 1884 to 1891 he was employed as a government master builder in the building construction administration of the city of Stuttgart followed.

Schmohl then went to Essen, where he headed the construction office of Friedrich Krupp AG from 1891 to 1924. He was the successor to Gustav Kraemer , who under Alfred Krupp had made a decisive contribution to the beginnings of Krupp housing since 1863. Schmohl began his career under Friedrich Alfred Krupp on August 6, 1891 as head of the construction office, became operations director in 1914 and was promoted to department director in 1917. Among other things, he contributed to the construction of the Margarethenhöhe settlement in Essen . He retired on January 1, 1925 .

The settlements Altenhof I and Altenhof II in Essen, the civil servants' settlement Bliersheim in (Duisburg-) Friemersheim , the Beisenkamp settlement in Datteln and the Dahlhauser Heide settlement in (Bochum-) Hordel go back to him. Schmohl was a member of the German Werkbund (DWB) and the Ruhr architects and engineers association . He was also a member of the board of the Margarethe Krupp Foundation and the administrative board of the Rhenish Association for Small Housing .

From November 1894 to 1919 Schmohl was a city ​​councilor for the city of Essen.

Awards

In 1900 Schmohl received the Prussian Red Eagle Order, 4th class .

1920 awarded him the Aachen University , the honorary doctorate for his outstanding contributions to the development and design baukünstlerische Rhenish industrial settlements .

In 1925 he received the city of Essen's Silver Medal of Honor. Robert-Schmohl-Platz in the Margarethenhöhe district of Essen has been a reminder of him since 1927.

literature

• Robert Schmohl 80 years old. In: Essener Volkszeitung from August 18, 1935
• Uwe Kessler: On the history of management at Krupp. From the beginning of the company to the dissolution of Fried. Krupp AG (1811-1943). (Dissertation, University of Stuttgart, 1993.) Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06486-9 .
• Andreas Helfrich: The Margaretenhöhe in Essen. Architect and client against the background of local politics in Essen and company politics in Krupp between 1886 and 1914. VDG , Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-105-8 .
• Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads. 2nd edition, Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-0849-9 , p. 263, p. 307.

Web links

• Tobias columnsberger : Krupp housing estates. From the workers' house to the Margarethenhöhe. , accessed April 25, 2017