Rudolf Krüger (architect)

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Rudolf Krüger (born January 15, 1898 in Koblenz , † September 18, 1980 in Saarbrücken ) was a German architect . With his work he shaped the cityscape of Saarbrücken in particular in the post-war period.

Life

Krüger was born in Koblenz in 1898 as the son of court clerk August Krüger. In 1899 the family moved to Saarbrücken. Here Krüger attended elementary school and in 1917 passed the Abitur at the Ludwigsgymnasium in Saarbrücken. In 1917/18 Krüger had to take part in the First World War as a soldier. Shortly after the war in 1919 , he began studying painting at the Karlsruhe Art Academy , but in the same year began studying architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , which he graduated with a diploma in 1922. In the following years he worked as an assistant to Karl Caesarat the TH Karlsruhe at the chair for modern design and urban planning. In 1923/24 Krüger went on a one-year study trip to Italy, Spain and North Africa, which he used for drawing and painting.

In 1924 Krüger got a job at the municipal building department in Saarbrücken, but switched to freelance work the following summer and founded an architectural association with Erich Stoll from Stuttgart. In 1926 he passed the second state examination and was appointed government master builder at the TH Karlsruhe. In the following year he was accepted into the Association of German Architects and founded his own architecture office. In 1928 Krüger married Clara Meincke († 1983). The couple had four children.

In 1939 Krüger received an appointment at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . The appointment as professor followed. This activity was interrupted by military service in Lachen-Speyerdorf . In 1940 he was appointed the leading architect of the reconstruction in the Saarbrücken district, he was then the leading architect in the St. Avold district and then employed by the Ludwigshafen building authority until 1945. After the war he resumed his freelance work in Saarbrücken. In 1948 he was a founding member of the Saarland Chamber of Architects and then a member of the Chamber Board for several years. After the Saarland was reclassified to Germany in 1955, Krüger was the founding commissioner and first regional chairman of the Saarland regional association of the Association of German Architects in 1956.

From 1969 he worked in a partnership with his eldest son Klaus Krüger, and in 1970 Karl-Ludwig Rieger joined them. He retired in the mid-1970s.

Works

Awards

literature

  • Martina Malburg: The architect Rudolf Krüger. Studies of life and work . Verlag der Handzeichen, Düsseldorf / Alfeld 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Gerhild Krebs: "German" housing in the Saar area (1920-1935) . In: Places of cross-border memory - traces of the networking of the Saar-Lor-Lux area in the 19th and 20th centuries , Saarbrücken 2002
  2. ^ Hochgarage Ursulinen- / Sulzbachstrasse , laboratory report, accessed on April 20, 2017
  3. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 33 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken August 4, 1978, p. 697 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 225 kB ; accessed on May 28, 2017]).