Rudolf Max Ludloff

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Rudolf Max Ludloff (born August 15, 1863 in Vienna ; † January 31, 1933 in Kiedrich , Hessen ) was a German architect .

Life

Rudolf Max Ludloff was the eldest son of the businessman and entrepreneur Max Ludloff (1839–1911) and grandson of Friedrich Carl Ludloff and was born as a Reich German in Vienna. Ludloff attended a secondary school in Berlin with the right to do one year of voluntary military service, which he did not do. He then studied seven semesters Architecture at the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich and at the Technical University Berlin .

From around 1885 he worked for several years as a project architect in architectural offices in Berlin and Hamburg . In 1891 he moved from Hamburg to Kassel and became a member of the local engineering association. He founded his own office in 1894.

In March 1897 he became a Freemason in the Kassel Johannisloge "For harmony and steadfastness". In order to be accepted, he had to provide a short handwritten curriculum vitae and two certificates of good repute that have survived. He ran into financial problems several times between 1901 and 1906 and received three private loans through the lodge. For his livelihood he traveled through Germany and came into contact with the Briesnitz community .

He had already entered into a partnership with the architect Hugo Stieger from Hildesheim in Kassel. From 1911 he worked for the community of Briesnitz, moved to Briesnitz around 1912 and was listed as an extraordinary member of the lodge on application, as he was no longer based in Kassel. In 1914 he moved to Dresden . In 1920 his address was no longer in the city's address book and from 1923 he was no longer included in the lodge's list of members.

He was never married and had no children.

The further way through life until his death is unknown. He died on January 31, 1933 in Kiedrich, where his father had moved in 1893 and died in 1911.

Buildings (selection)

  • 1906: Café Prinzenhof in the Vorderen West , Kassel, for the "fine society" equipped with:
    • Linoleum flooring
    • modern stucco ceilings
    • Central heating
    • electric lighting
  • 1909 together with Hugo Stieger: Design of the old Gauss tower near Göttingen
  • 1911 together with Hugo Stieger: Design for the Briesnitz estate near Dresden
  • 1911 to 1914 (contract not extended): Planner and site manager of the Briesnitz settlement

plant

  • The new town hall: an architectural appreciation , Schneider, Kassel, 1910

Web link

literature

  • Rudolf Friedrich Ludloff : History of the Ludolf-Ludloff Family , Roßteutscher, 1910, p. 71
  • Bernhard Sterra: Dresden and its architects: Strömungen and Tendenzen 1900–1970 , Husum, 2011 p. 79 ff.
  • Elke Butze, Birgit von Rüdiger: Dresden-Briesnitz Housing Estate - Design Guide for the Monument Protection Area , State Capital Dresden, 2013, p. 12

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Matthäus: Places in the front west: history (s) of a Kassel district . Albert Schweitzer School, 2010 ( google.de [accessed on January 7, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Ludloff, Rudolf Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1933
Place of death Kiedrich , Hesse