Rudolf Kühn (architect)

Rudolf Kühn (born June 29, 1886 in Pirna , † October 25, 1950 in Berlin ; full name Rudolf Oskar Albert Kühn ) was a German architect and construction clerk .

Life

Kühn attended the Annenrealgymnasium in Dresden and began studying structural engineering, civil engineering and urban planning at the Technical University of Dresden , which he graduated with honors in 1909. This was followed in 1912 with a doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of “Fire Insurance in the Kingdom of Saxony”, in 1914 appointment as government master builder in Chemnitz and military service in the First World War. He then received jobs as a town planning officer in Altenburg (Thuringia) in 1918 , in Forst (Lausitz) from January 1, 1920 to mid-1934, and in Breslau from July 1934 to January 1937 , when he resigned from office for health reasons. He was a member of the Free German Academy of Urban Development and, since November 25, 1949, of the Association of German Architects . The conservative and nationalist-minded technocrat had been a member of the NSDAP since 1933 . Art historian Jens Lipsdorf sees parallels with Albert Speer . Until his death in 1950 Kühn worked as a freelance architect and appraiser as well as an employee of Hans Scharoun in Berlin.

As a town planning officer, Kühn shaped the image of the town of Forst significantly between 1920 and 1934. In his projects he combined functionality with urban harmony as well as modernity with architectural tradition. Many of its structures were destroyed at the end of the Second World War. Some of his designs are documented in the Ostdeutsche Bau-Zeitung.

Buildings and designs

Forst (Lausitz)

"Jerusalem" settlement (on the Malxe)

• 1920: Group of houses Teuplitzer Strasse / Scheunoer Strasse (destroyed)
• 1924: Design of a cloth factory for the Alsatian-Baden wool works
• 1924: Design for the new town hall on Gutenbergplatz
• 1924: Reconstruction of the Stadtmühlenwerke, Mühlenstraße (partially preserved)
• 1924/1925: New building of the general local health insurance fund, Promenade / Gerberstraße (today used as town hall)
• 1925: Substation ("ELT-Werk"), Badestrasse (closed in 1992, demolished in 2007)
• 1925: Stadtbad, Spremberger Straße (demolished?)
• 1925: Design for an official residence for the Hohlfeld company
• 1927: Expansion of the bridgehead in Forst-Berge , Friedrich-Ebert-Platz (today in Poland; demolished after war damage and reparations)
• 1926/1927: "Jerusalem Settlement", Spremberger Strasse / Schwerinstrasse
• 1928/1929: Crematorium, Frankfurter Straße (artistic decoration by Georg Wrba , Johannes Ernst Born and Prof. Heinrich Wedemeyer )
• 1928/1929: town house, Skurumer Straße (heavily changed)
• 1928/1929: People's kitchen and baby home (vacant since 2009)
• 1928: Realgymnasium, Jahnstrasse
• around 1930: residential buildings, Kegeldamm 20–25
• 1932: suburban settlement
• 1933: Labor Office (demolished after war damage)

Lausitz

• 1929: Design for a Protestant youth home in Weißwasser
• 1929: Design for a restoration building in Döbern

Wroclaw

Administration building at the Oderkronwerk in Wroclaw, bank facade

Administration building at the Werderbrücke (right in the picture)

• 1935 to after 1939: Administration building of the labor, finance and customs office, Am Oderkronwerk, preserved with small extensions on the courtyard side (now: Faculties of the University of Breslau and the State Archives)
• from 1935: urban plans for the renovation of the old town:
  • "Siehdichfür" breakthrough: The street Siehdichfür (now: ulica Widok ) was created with the road breakthrough through the building block of the former malt house "Siehdichfür" and the extension of Groschenstrasse . The development was implemented according to the designs of Heinrich Rump and Heinz Kempfer.
  • Design West breakthrough East over the old Ohle, later similarly as for the east-west road implemented

literature

• Bogusław Czechowicz: Gmach dawnych Urzędów Pracy, Skarbowego i Celnego (…). In: Jan Harasimowicz (Ed.): Atlas architektury Wrocławia. Tom I. Budowle sacralne, Świeckie budowle publiczne. Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 1997, ISBN 83-7023-592-1 , pp. 120–121.
• Lars Scharnholz, Institute for New Industrial Culture INIK (Ed.): The unknown modernity. Philo & Philo Fine Arts, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86572-389-6 .
• Janusz Dobesz: Wrocławska architektura spod znaku swastyki na tle budownictwa III Rzeszy. Oficyna Wydawnicza PWr, Wrocław 2005, ISBN 83-7085-911-9 , pp. 11-13, 54-55.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Jens Lipsdorf : Leave a lot of traces in Forst. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. June 29, 2006, accessed October 16, 2012 . 
2. ↑ jas: Experts classify Rudolf Kühn historically. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. October 21, 2011, accessed October 16, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung , year 1925, no.12 - (all volumes available as digital copies)
4. ↑ Modern designs , born in 1924, ...
5. ↑ Baumeister , born 1924, ...
6. ^ R. Bruck: Buildings by City Planning Officer Dr. Kühn - forest . In: Decorative art, illustrated magazine for applied art, vol. 32 = vol. 27, 1923/24, pp. 283–285 ( digitized version ).
7. ^ Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung , year 1926, No. 37.
8. ^ Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung , year 1926, No. 45.
9. ↑ Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung , year 1925, No. 6.
10. ↑ Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung , year 1927, No. 5.
11. ↑ Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung , year 1925, No. 22.
12. ↑ Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung , year 1925, No. 24.
13. ↑ Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung , year 1925, No. 28.
14. ↑ ^{a b c} Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung , year 1927, No. 97.
15. ^ Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung , year 1925, No. 13.
16. ↑ On the lost "Schnitter Tod" - the bronze relief by Prof. Georg Wrba
17. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung , year 1928, No. 3.
18. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , year 1933, No. 5

predecessor	Office	successor
Fritz Behrendt	Wroclaw City Planning Council (building construction) 1934–1937	Abandoned office