Rudi Chicken

Rudi Huhn (born January 30, 1919 in Kühnau ; † June 24, 2010 in Leichlingen ) was a German author and hobby historian in Dessau .

Life

Rudi Huhn was born in 1919 in Kühnau and grew up as an amateur photographer with a camera and an award from his school when he left school. After his marriage, he moved to Mildensee , where his two daughters grew up on Kleutscher Strasse and where he looked after his wife in her final years.

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter, he worked as a carpenter, later as a master carpenter, as a teacher at the Bauhaus Dessau , as a part-time specialist teacher at an engineering school and as a designer. When he ended his professional life at the age of 70, he was head of the photography department in the Dessau concrete project. He was also not spared the stations of Reich labor service, military service and imprisonment typical of his generation.

As a Wehrmacht officer, he witnessed the destruction of his hometown Dessau by American bombers on March 7, 1945. As a result, he decided to preserve the cityscape of the undestroyed Dessau with still available image material, especially postcards, and to document the destruction and reconstruction with his own photos. Huhn wrote countless press articles on the history of Dessau. He left his extensive archive to the Dessau City Archives and the Mildensee Local History Association.

Rudi Huhn found his final resting place on July 10, 2010 in the Mildenseer Friedhof.

Publications

• Dessau: the royal seat around 1900 , Dessau / Göppingen: Manuela Kinzel Verlag , 2008, ISBN 978-3-937367-20-0
• From the court theater to the Altes Theater coffee house to the Altes Theater cultural center , Dessau / Göppingen: Manuela Kinzel Verlag , 2008, ISBN 978-3-937367-22-4
• The historic Kavalierstrasse , Dessau / Göppingen: Manuela Kinzel Verlag , 2008, ISBN 978-3-934071-76-6

Web links

• The history of the city of Dessau