Rudolf Rohrer (architect)

Rudolf Rohrer (born July 15, 1900 in Munich , † 1968 in Leipzig ) was a German civil engineer and architect .

Live and act

Design for the Roßplatz in Leipzig by Rudolf Rohrer (1952).

“Messeamt am Markt” with a flat roof in the style of international modernism (1963).

Rohrer's father was a carpenter. Rohrer broke off an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. He then studied at the Technical College in Munich and graduated there in 1921 as a civil engineer. After that he worked in various, unknown architectural offices in southwest Germany.

In 1929 he won first prize in a competition to build residential buildings in Gautzsch near Markkleeberg , where he then continued to work as a freelance architect. In the post-war period Rohrer continued his architecture office in Markkleeberg. In the competition for the construction of the old town hall in Halle (Saale) in 1947, he won second prize. Since 1951 he was employed as a group leader in the state design office of VEB Bauplanung Sachsen with a branch in Leipzig.

In 1952, Rohrer's working group received second prize in the competition for the redevelopment of Leipzig's Roßplatz in the style of socialist classicism . From 1953 to 1956 the buildings were built according to Rohrer's neoclassical designs.

In 1956, Rohrer and Hasso Bausch reconstructed the Ring-Messehaus with portico , which was built in 1926 according to designs by Gustav Pflaume and destroyed in the war .

In the 1960s, Rohrer switched from what was then known as “craft-conservative” to “modern-industrial” construction in accordance with the changed political guidelines. In this style, he and Rudolf Skoda built the trade fair office on Leipzig's market square from 1963 to 1965 . The building, which was demolished in 2001, stood on pillars and had a glass-aluminum facade in the style of international modernism and a flat roof. Today the market gallery stands there .

After his retirement he worked for the Institute for Monument Preservation in Dresden. He designed the reconstruction of the Leipzig Romanushaus . All stucco ceilings and the two courtyard wings fell victim to the renovation from 1966 to 1969.

Catalog raisonné

1953/1955: Roßplatz in Leipzig
1956: Reconstruction of the Leipzig exhibition center
1963/1965: Trade fair office on the market in Leipzig
1966/1969: Reconstruction of the Romanushaus

Publications

Rudolf Rohrer: The new buildings at Roßplatz in Leipzig. In: Deutsche Architektur 1955 , No. 3, pp. 100–107.
Rudolf Rohrer: City restaurant Hoyerswerda. In: Deutsche Architektur 1957 , No. 11, p. 624.

literature

Ralf Koch: Rudolf Rohrer . In: Dietrich Fürst: From building artist to complex project developer: Architects in the GDR: Documentation of an IRS collection of biographical data . Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), Berlin 2000, OCLC 237432293 , p. 188-190 .

Joachim Schulz, Wolfgang Müller and Erwin Schrödl: Architectural Guide GDR, Leipzig District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1976, OCLC 874871110 .

Individual evidence

↑ Ralf Koch explains: "It would be necessary to investigate in which of the southern German architectural offices the young civil engineer experienced his conservative architectural character, which promoted his career as an architect after the end of the war and especially at the beginning of the 1950s under the doctrine of national building tradition" ; see. Koch, p. 188.

personal data
SURNAME	Rohrer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	July 15, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	1968
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Ralf Koch explains: "It would be necessary to investigate in which of the southern German architectural offices the young civil engineer experienced his conservative architectural character, which promoted his career as an architect after the end of the war and especially at the beginning of the 1950s under the doctrine of national building tradition" ; see. Koch, p. 188.