Franz Ruff

Franz Ruff (* 1906 in Straubing, † 1979 in Prien am Chiemsee ) was a German architect.

Franz Ruff was born in 1906 as son of the architect Ludwig Ruff in Straubing. He was also an architect and worked from the beginning of its activities in Nuremberg, primarily for the Nazis. In 1934 he also took over the teaching of his father at the State School of Applied Arts in Nuremberg, to the sinking of the ' Third Reich ', 1945. Ruff belongs next to Albert Speer, Paul Ludwig Troost and his father Ludwig Ruff of the most famous architects of the ' Third Reich ' who were entrusted with typical representational and thus are considered as influential for this period. After the end of National Socialism Ruff was classified as a fellow traveler in the course of de-Nazification process. As a result, he was further worked as an architect, but was unable to match his career during the Nazi period after 1945.

Work

After minor projects such as the Hitler House ( also ' Brown House' ) in 1932 in Nuremberg, he took over after his father's death in 1934 the major project never completed Congress Hall on the Nazi Party Rally Grounds. 1935-1937, he oversaw the expansion and renovation of the Deutscher Hof, the hotel, which was Hitler's permanent quarters in Nuremberg.

1935/1937, he designed the Gauhaus franc, the official residence of the striker - publisher and Gauleiter of Franconia Julius Streicher, now used by the Nuremberg messages. Ruff was also on the main market at the request of Strings Baroque Fountain of Neptune in 1934 broken up before the County House.

His biggest project was from 1937 to 1939, the later so-called SS barracks (then actually called the SS - property ), which is now home to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.

According to plans by Ruff was born from 1937 to 1942 for Julius Streicher at the Pleikershof Cadolzburg, an axisymmetric Dreiseithof of monumental proportions in homeland security style.