Rudolph Grimm

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Rudolph Grimm (born June 8, 1906 in Eckersmühlen , † 1969 in Nuremberg ) was an architect at the Upper Bavarian Post Building School .

Grimm studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich from 1926 to 1929 . In 1927 he worked as an intern at the Oberpostdirektion Speyer and supported German Bestelmeyer in his studio from 1927 to 1930 . Among other things, he was involved in the expansion of the New Collection in Munich and in the new construction of the state weather station. In 1931 he completed his studies as a government architect and worked from 1932 to 1934 as an assistant at the TH Munich.

Together with the government architect Günthner, he built numerous churches, settlements and houses in a private office, for example in Regensburg . In 1936 he was the architect responsible for the Air Force and responsible for the new construction of the airfield in Landsberg am Lech . In 1938 he moved to the planning department of the air force command in Kiel , and later to the air district command in Hamburg . In 1942 he was transferred to Rostov-on-Don and then employed in Dnepropetrovsk . After the Luftgaukommando was dissolved in 1943, he went to Italy, where he was held as a prisoner of war from 1945 to 1948.

After his release, he worked as a private architect in Corvara before he returned to Eckersmühlen . From 1949 to 1961 he was employed in the Nuremberg Post Office. From 1961 to 1969 he was a post construction officer in Nuremberg.

buildings

Post office Ansbach
  • Housing estate in Nymindegab in Denmark
  • Varel housing estate
  • Housing estate in Hörnum / Sylt
  • Housing estate in Aalbog west / Barth
  • Norderney / Anklam housing estate
  • Housing estate Langeoog / Westerland
  • Luftgaukommando in Hamburg
  • Airfield in Landsberg am Lech
  • Post office in Ansbach
  • Post office Bamberg 1
  • Post office Bamberg 2
  • FBA Nuremberg
  • BWK Nuremberg

literature

  • Florian Aicher: The country post office. In: Florian Aicher, Uwe Drepper (Ed.): Robert Vorhoelzer . An architect's life. The classic modernity of the Post. Munich 1990, p. 172.
personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Eckersmühlen
DATE OF DEATH 1969
Place of death Nuremberg