Wilhelm Rettig

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Wilhelm Rettig (born February 25, 1845 in Heidelberg , † August 2, 1920 in Berlin ) was a German architect , municipal construction officer , designer and entrepreneur .

Life

Rettig studied from 1861 to 1865 at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe , where he passed the second state examination in 1866. He worked as Adolph Schroedter's assistant and was sent to Paris in 1867 on an official assignment. By 1871 he carried out several larger buildings in Heidelberg. In 1872 he went to Berlin and began to work for the atelier von Ende and Böckmann. He then took over the independent management of the Rheinische Baugesellschaft in Mannheim . Shortly afterwards he was back in Berlin to deal with boat building, where he joined the building construction office of the Reichstag building and worked under Paul Wallot .

From 1890 to 1891 he was a master builder in Dresden , then he headed the municipal building administration of the city of Munich as a (municipal) senior building officer. In Munich he gave important impulses for contemporary urban planning, but was unable to assert himself with some of his ideas against economic and local political interests. In 1896 he gave up his office and went to Berlin.

In 1895, Rettig presented the Rettig bench he had developed for schools. This school desk was initially created by the Berlin company P. Johs. Müller & Co. manufactured and sold, of which he was a co-owner. He was also the owner of the Neue Bootswerft company , whose shipyard was located on Köpenicker Landstrasse in (Berlin-) Niederschöneweide . In the specialist rowing literature he is also occasionally mentioned as the developer of the rolling seat . At the 1909 International Aviation Exhibition in Frankfurt am Main, he presented a new type of construction for airship frames made of wood.

In his free time, Rettig was a rower and in 1896 one of the founders of the Berlin rowing society Wiking eV He temporarily ran his own boatyard in Stralauer Allee in Berlin, which dealt with the development and improvement of rowing machines, roller seats, hollow rudders and racing boats. He himself took part in races as early as 1880.

Work (selection)

Buildings and designs

  • 1876: Competition design for a new town hall in Hamburg (together with Rosemann and Jacob)
  • 1875–1881: Garrison Church Metz (with Bushman)
  • 1890/91: step train (together with brother Heinrich Rettig , royal building officer in Posen )
  • 1891–1893: Markthalle Antonsplatz in Dresden (according to preliminary planning by city planner Theodor Friedrich )
  • 1891–1893: School building on Silbermannstrasse in Dresden
  • 1891 Design for a new high school Dreikönigschule , which was not realized.

Fonts

  • New school desk. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung. 1891
  • New school desk. Schneider, Leipzig 1895, OCLC 800610284 .
  • On the school desk thing - open letter to E. Wisskott…. Charlottenburg 1908.
  • Leo Burgerstein and the school desk question. PJ Müller, Charlottenburg 1909.

literature

  • Award-winning design by the architects Wilhelm Rettig and Paul Pfann for the national monument to Kaiser Wilhelm. Berlin 1889 OCLC 631863998 .
  • Staff news . In: Art Chronicle . New series, 1st year, No. 1 . EA Seemann, Leipzig October 10, 1889, Sp. 9 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Correspondence . In: Art Chronicle . New series, 2nd volume, No. 23 . EA Seemann, Leipzig April 23, 1891, Sp. 387–392 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - detailed report on the dispute over the construction of the Realgymnasium in Dresden Neustadt and the resignation of the city architect Rettig in 1891.).
  • Rettig, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 192 (without mentioning his work in Munich and his entrepreneurial activities).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Fisch: Urban planning in the 19th century: The example of Munich up to the Theodor Fischer era . R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1988, ISBN 978-3-486-54211-0 , pp. 221 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Uli Walter: The reconstruction of the Munich old town (1871-1914). Master's thesis, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich , 1987. ( revised online version ).
  3. ↑ Address book for Berlin and its suburbs 1897. P. 879.
  4. ↑ Address book for Berlin and its suburbs 1897. P. 899.
  5. ^ H. Hänel: Rowing. From skull to strap. A textbook for teachers and learners, for trainers and rowers. Frankfurt am Main 1963, p. 17. - Haege, Bruncke, Eggenstein and Rauscher cite other sources for the development of the rolling seat.
  6. ↑ Rudolf Wolf: Maybach engines and automobiles in the Rhine-Neckar triangle and the Palatinate. 5th, revised edition, Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8334-8938-9 , pp. 205 f.
  7. ^ History of the rowing company Wiking ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ↑ 100 years of rowing in Berlin . 1976, p. 2–5 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  9. ↑ Julius Mandl:  The stairway of the Rettig brothers. In:  Weekly of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects , year 1891, No. 16/1891 (XVI. Year), p. 156. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ina.
  10. ↑ German construction newspaper . Stuttgart May 9, 1891, p. 224–225 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Rettig, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and municipal building officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1920
Place of death Berlin