Rolf Geyling

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Rolf Geyling (born June 7, 1884 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † August 1, 1952 in Tientsin , Hebei Province , People's Republic of China ) was an Austrian engineer and architect .

Life

Geyling comes from a Catholic family who have been involved in painting, especially stained glass , for generations . His father Rudolf Geyling and especially his brother Remigius Geyling were known as painters. From 1909 to 1911 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Otto Wagner, among others . In 1910 he passed the second state examination at the Technical University of Vienna and began working as an architect at Janesch & Schnell in Vienna in 1910 . For the municipal transport company Vienna, today Wiener Linien , he designed waiting halls as well as servant houses and depots in two districts of Vienna. In 1912 he went to Romania and built a precast factory for wood cement and precast concrete in Bucharest . There he married the daughter of a building contractor, Hermine Schmidts. The couple had three children, the first of whom died in 1916.

When the First World War broke out , Geylng served as an artilleryman, but was taken prisoner by Russia as early as 1915 . He spent his imprisonment in Siberia , where he held technical courses and made architectural sketches in the Dauria and Antipicha camps . In 1918 he was transferred to Vladivostok as a prisoner and was able to work there as an architect. He planned the expansion of the warehouse there as well as rental and private houses. In 1920 he managed to escape to China with forged papers. The end of the escape was the seaside resort of Peitaiho northeast of Tientsin, where he created the urban development plan and planned hotels and villas over the next few years.

In 1920 he founded the company Yuen Fu Co in Tientsin with German partners as chief architect . He traveled to his homeland to bring his wife to China and was appointed Austrian Honorary Vice Consul in Tientsin. The construction company Geyling and Skoff from Tientsin was active on various projects in northeast China until 1929. In 1929 he became self-employed and at the same time worked as a lecturer for statics, reinforced concrete construction and drafts at the Kung Shang University in Tientsin until 1934 . In 1931 the Austrian Foreign Ministry awarded him the title of Building Councilor hc

After the Communists came to power in China, Geyling was expropriated in 1949, but remained in China and attempted rehabilitation until his death in 1952. When she left the country in the same year, his widow had to leave behind all of the archive material on around 250 projects, some of which still exist today. In the Modern Tienjian and World Museum in the city where he worked, references have been made to his work since 2002.

Works

  • 1911: Normannen boat and club house , Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria .
  • 191171912: Servant houses and depot (Remise) Hernals of the Wiener Verkehrsbetriebe, Vienna 17.
  • 1911/1912: Servant residences and depot of the Wiener Verkehrsbetriebe, Vienna 12, Koppreitergasse 5.
  • 1913/1914: House of Representation and Hotel, Bohemian Brewery, Pilsen , Bohemia .
  • 1913/1914: Hotel Imperial, Bucharest, Romania - destroyed.
  • 1920 and later: Hotels, villas, etc. in the seaside resort of Peitaiho, China.
  • 1921/1952: Numerous villas, rental, office and commercial buildings in Tientsin, China.
  • 1921–1922: Dung University near Da Hue in Mukden , Liaoning Province , Manchuria , China.
  • 1925/1926: Central station in Dairen , China.
  • 1925/1926: Flood interception systems in Bei Tsang , China.
  • 1926: German-American Hospital in Tientsin, China.

Unrealized projects

  • before 1929: Memorial hall for Dr. Sun Yat-Sen .
  • 1930: Evangelical Church in Shanghai , China.

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personal data
SURNAME Geyling, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian engineer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1952
Place of death Tianjin , People's Republic of China