Rudolf von Sinner

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Johann Rudolf Kirchberger von Sinner (born February 23, 1890 in England ; † June 27, 1960 in Bern ) was a Swiss architect .

Life

Rudolf von Sinner was the son of the Bernese merchant Rudolf Alfred Eduard von Sinner (1864–1901) and the British Florence Maud Ricketts (1865–1936). In 1908 he obtained the high school diploma from the Free Gymnasium Bern . He completed his architecture studies at the Royal Saxon Technical University in Dresden . He is one of the Bernese representatives of new building . Together with his partner Hans Beyeler, he realized several sports facilities. Sinner and Beyeler realized numerous buildings in Bern. Their greatest success was the first place in the 1931 competition for a new town house in Bern, which the two u. a. could decide against Otto Rudolf Salvisberg .

Sinner married Helene Schneeli from Zurich in 1920, from whom he divorced in 1933. The two had two sons, Friedrich Eduard Kirchberger and Vincent Rudolf Meinrad, and a daughter, Sonia. He owned the Mon Repos campaign in Bern, which was demolished in 1955 . The theology professor Rudolf von Sinner (* 1967), who works in Brazil, is a grandson of the architect.

In the Swiss Army , Sinner was a Colonel in the General Staff from 1943 and an adjutant to General Henri Guisan in active service . Rudolf von Sinner was the chamberlain from 1929 to 1938 and president of the Mittellöwen Society from 1939 to 1960 ; from 1925 he was a member of the Great Citizens 'Council, from 1932 also of the Small Citizens' Council, from 1928 a member and from 1932 President of the Commission of the Natural History Museum in Bern . In 1950 he initiated the donation of Ehrenburger rights to the then Bernese government councilor Markus Feldmann .

The mineral sinnerite was named after Rudolf von Sinner .

Buildings and designs

  • 1928: Bern, Neufeld tennis clubhouse
  • 1932/33: Bern, Ka-We-De
  • 1934/35: Bern, Silvahof
  • 1936/37: Olten, lido
  • 1938: Draft of the State Archives of the Canton of Bern (Postgasshalde)
  • 1938/39: Bern, extension of the Sommerleist indoor swimming pool

literature

  • Benno's mother: Beyeler and von Sinner. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 57 f.
  • Urs Graf: Traces of Modernism in the Canton of Bern: Anthology of Contemporary Architecture in the Canton of Bern , epoch 1920–1940, ed. by the Commission for Art and Architecture of the Canton of Bern, Bern 1997.
  • W. Küenzi: Rudolf von Sinner 1890-1960. Obituary in: Natural History Museum of the City of Bern. Yearbook 1960–1962. Bern, Stämpfli & Cie 196. pp. 67-76
  • The Sommerleist indoor swimming pool in Bern. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung, vol. 115/116 (1940), issue 7, pp. 75-XX. doi : 10.5169 / seals-51142
  • Katrin Rieder: Networks of Conservatism. Bernese civic community and patriciate in the 19th and 20th centuries. Chronos, Zurich 2008.
  • Robert Ludwig Wyss: The gold and silversmith's work of the Bern guild for the middle lion. Bern 1985, pp. 40-41.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to German law, Johann Rudolf Kirchberger Freiherr von Sinner. Johann Rudolf Sinner received the hereditary imperial baron title in 1706. The prefix for British style the family name name Kirchberger comes from Helena Katharina Kirchberger (1805-1849), the great-grandmother of Rudolf Sinners, from the 1836 extinct in the male line Gender Kirchberger .
  2. ↑ Rieder 2008, pp. 433-434.
  3. ↑ Sinnerit at www.mineralienatlas.de
  4. ↑ Graf 1997, p. 161.
  5. ^ State Archives of the Canton of Bern , AA III 243 Bern
  6. ↑ Graf 1997, p. 137.
personal data
SURNAME Sinner, Rudolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sinner, Johann Rudolf Kirchberger von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH England
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1960
Place of death Bern