Rudolf Kempf

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Rudolf Christian Kempf (born December 6, 1864 in Rieneck ; † May 14, 1943 in Hamburg ) was a German art historian , architect , painter , editor and technical school teacher. As an entrepreneur , he opened a private technical center in Aschaffenburg in 1901 and, as a department of this technical center, the first driving school in Germany in 1904 .

“Autolenkerschule” in Aschaffenburg, 1906

Life

Rudolf Kempf was the son of a royal Bavarian forester and attended a secondary school before studying at an art school and at the Technical University of Munich . He graduated with the state teaching qualification for drawing and modeling, after which he worked as an architect for some time. Since 1885 he was a member of the Hamburg fraternity Germania and the fraternity Cimbria Munich . In 1889 he married and took a job as a teacher at the Hanover School of Applied Arts . In 1893 he published an illustrated book, mainly produced in collotype , with Georg Alpers junior's publishing house on the older building fabric of Hanover with partially revised and supplemented historical models such as paintings and photographs and with texts by the sculptor Heinrich Ahrens .

From 1893 to 1901 he was director of the municipal building trade school in Augsburg , where he published other illustrated books on the architecture of the city and the country.

In 1901 he started his own business and founded the "Privat-Technikum Aschaffenburg", which until 1906 was located in the Bassenheimer Hof , Dalbergstraße 78. As a department of this technical center, he opened the “First German Automobile Driving School” in 1904, in which primarily professional drivers ( chauffeurs ) were trained, but which also offered courses for men’s drivers .

In 1906 Kempf lost the (state, ie Bavarian) license for his technical center after allegations that according to some sources involved financial and organizational problems, others referred to “immoral behavior”. He moved to Mainz (in what was then the Grand Duchy of Hesse ), where he established his private technical center as “1. German automobile and engineering school ”continued for a few years.

Later he was based in Hamburg , where he worked as an architect, graphic artist and author at the end of the 1920s and became a retired technical college director. D. titled.

Honors

  • In 2004, a stone stele entitled " Evolution " was erected at the former location of the driving school in Aschaffenburg , which was made according to a design by the sculptor Bernard Chemin (then a master student of the municipal college for stone masons and stone sculptors ).

Fonts

  • Old Hanover. (with text by H. Ahrens) Phot. Printing and publishing by Georg Alpers jr. , Hanover 1893.
  • with Adolf Buff : Alt-Augsburg. A collection of architectural and craft motifs. Kanter & Mohr, Berlin 1898. (text volume and table volume)
  • with Martin Weigel: Alt-Rothenburg . A collection of picturesque architectural pieces. Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1900.
  • Country architectures from ancient times. Picturesque country residences and farmhouses, city gates, towers, smaller urban buildings and interesting architectural details from southern and central Germany. (2 volumes) Hessling, Berlin 1900 and 1902.
  • The farmhouse in northern Bavaria . Süddeutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 1903.
  • Village walks. The most interesting farmhouse types in southern Germany in photos from nature. ( Portfolio with 100 plates) Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1904.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hamburg State Archives, 731-8_A 760: Kempf, Rudolf  in the German Digital Library
  2. ^ Entry on Rudolf Kempf in: "archthek" - Historical Register of Architects, Section Kech - Keysselitz, online ; accessed on June 13, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c Compare the dating of the various book titles, for example in Gateway Bavaria
  4. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
  5. ^ A b Franz Rudolf Zankl: Afterword , in: Schöne Alt-Hannover ... (see literature), p. 67ff.
  6. ↑ a b c d Klaus Herzog (responsible): Autolenkerschule
  7. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members. Edition 1925/26. Frankfurt am Main 1925/26, p. 217.
  8. ^ Dressler's art manual , 1930 (see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Kempf, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kempf, Rudolf Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, architect, painter, editor and technical school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Rieneck
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1943
Place of death Hamburg