Rudolf Baumbach (master builder)

This article deals with the master builder Rudolf Baumbach . For the German poet, see Rudolf Baumbach .

Karl Heinrich Rudolf Baumbach (born April 19, 1807 in Berlin ; † January 4, 1885 in Wetzlar ) was a German builder , later director of the building trade schools in Idstein and Wetzlar.

family

Baumbach was the son of the timber merchant David Sigismund Baumbach and his wife Luise, née Wolff. He married Emilie Louise Henriette Schmidt in Berlin on October 17, 1838. From this marriage came the son Felix Baumbach, who later worked as a high school teacher in Duisburg .

education and profession

After visiting the Royal Technical Institute in Berlin, Baumbach graduated from the Berlin Building Academy . Following a three-year study trip to Italy, he settled in Berlin as a self-employed master carpenter and builder. However, he had to give up this activity for economic reasons.

From 1864 to 1869 Baumbach worked as a senior teacher at the private building trade school in Höxter founded by Karl Möllinger . In 1869 he was appointed director of the Idstein Municipal Building Trade School , which was founded that year . In the summer semester of 1869 he was able to teach only four students in two classes with another teacher. But in the following semester, the number of students rose to 25, so that the teaching staff had to be enlarged. The school, from which the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences and today's RheinMain University emerged in 1971 , also developed very well in the following years. Since there were no predetermined curricula at the time, Baumbach had a great influence on the design of the lessons and the flourishing of the building trade school. Nevertheless, there were disagreements between Baumbach and the city of Idstein, which led to Baumbach's resignation in 1878 . In the same year, despite his advanced age, he helped found a building trade school in Wetzlar, which he ran until his death. The teaching institute, which had never flourished, was closed after the winter semester of 1884/85.

literature

• Clemens Klockner: The founding period is already history. An exemplary consideration of the prehistory and the early years of the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences . Publications from teaching, applied research and further education. Publisher Hochschule Rhein Main, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-923068-53-1 42. Digitalisat

Individual evidence

1. ^ Historical archive of the city of Wetzlar: Death certificate 1/1885 of the Wetzlar registry office.
2. ↑ JW Boike (Ed.): General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings for the year 1838 . Volume 17. JW Boike, Berlin 1838, p. 15 .
3. ↑ JA Büngler (Ed.): General Apartment Gazette with address and business handbook for Berlin, its surroundings and Charlottenburg for the year 1865. Compiled from official sources . JA Büngler, Berlin 1865, p. 24 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Wetzlarer Anzeiger . Volume 13, No. 6 . Ferdinand Schnitzler, Wetzlar January 8, 1885, p. 3 .
5. ↑ German construction newspaper . Volume 3, No. 16 . Commission publishing house by Carl Beelitz, Berlin April 15, 1869, p. 188 .
6. ↑ ^{a b} Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden: Censorship book of the building trade school Idstein 1869-1889 (Dept. 805, No. 48/1995), p. 1 ff.
7. ↑ German construction newspaper. Supplement to the Deutsche Bauzeitung . Vol. 3, No. 35, p. 425, No. 35 . Commission publishing house by Carl Beelitz, Berlin August 26, 1869, p. 425 .
8. ↑ Clemens Klockner: The founding period is already history. An exemplary consideration of the prehistory and the early years of the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. Publications from teaching, applied research and further education . Verlag Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-923068-53-1 , p. 42 .
9. ↑ German construction newspaper . Volume 19, No. 3 . Commission publishing house by Carl Beelitz, Berlin 1869, p. 20, Berlin January 10, 1885, p. 20 .