Fritz Beblo

Fritz Beblo ( born November 10, 1872 in Breslau, † April 11, 1947 in Munich; Complete name: Friedrich Karl Ewald Beblo ) was a German architect, city planner, and painter.

Life

The father, Emil Beblo, was a high school teacher. Fritz Beblo was a classmate of Friedrich Kayssler and Christian Morgenstern on the Wroclaw Mary Magdalene school where his father taught. From him the son had taken my love of music with his life. His mother Christian Morgenstern took on caring, as he and his son Fritz first met. From 1904 to 1906 he attended the Thomas School in Leipzig. After graduation in 1883 Beblo spent his student years in Berlin, first at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg. Here he lived in close contact with his childhood friends Kayssler and morning star. The three formed a cabaret and the Stammtisch The Gallows. As one of the gallows brothers Beblo received by Morgenstern nicknamed Mute Hannes. Beblo had, as well as the later actor Friedrich Kayssler, a lifelong connection with the Wroclaw childhood friend Morgenstern. 1896 sat Beblo his studies at the Technical University of Karlsruhe with Professor Carl Schaefer continued. From this period came the friendship with the painter Adolf Erbsloh. After completing his studies in architecture Beblo came first as a royal Prussian Regierungsbauführer to Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz and then to the Mosel to Traben -Trarbach. There he was involved in the construction of the bridge over the Moselle. After passing the builder exam in 1902, he took over the construction management for the new school Traben-Trarbach and built to his own design an elementary school. In the same year he married Melanie Louise Knoch, he had met in Karlsruhe. The marriage produced three children. Beblos daughter Anne ( working as a children's book author ) was married to Christian Kayssler, the son of his friend Friedrich Kayssler. Both sons were like the father is an architect. Fritz Beblo was illustrator of several children's books, both of Morning Star as well as books of his daughter Anne Kayssler - Beblo.

1903-1919 in Strasbourg

As a city building inspector began Fritz Beblo 1903 his work in Strasbourg, as the imperial province Alsace -Lorraine belonged to the German Empire since 1871. With the beginning of the 20th century, a building boom was also in Strasbourg. 1910 Fritz Beblo was appointed city architect. Support for his plans he found in Rudolf Schwander, the mayor. Particularly associated with Beblos names are: the Musau School (1904-1906), the St. Thomas School (1905-1907), the school Neufeld (1907-1909, now Collège Louise Weiss ), the budget of the school next to Magdalene Church (1909-1910), the Magdalene Church, the great road breakdown Grande Percée ( New road ) and the swimming and Thermal Bains Municipaux ( 1905-1908 ). This Jugendstilbad today is a landmark that is a listed building. As a last work Beblos in Strasbourg, the plant of the North Cemetery is mentioned. He could not lead to the end of this work, since he had to leave the city french become Strasbourg as German officials after the end of the First World War.

1919-1936 in Munich

Beblo received offers from Aachen, Bonn and Munich. He decided to Munich, where he expected big tasks as city architect. He attended at the beginning of its activity mainly for the construction of large housing estates to alleviate the housing shortage. In the following years he put a Generalbaulinien and a land use plan that went far beyond the existing boundaries of the city, and in 1926 a green space plan. Beblo joint responsibility for the Dante Stadium, for the popular family pool Maria Einsiedel and for the Technical City Hall. 1934, Munich great importance as a transport hub. The expansion of the Motorway access Ramer village and the Ludwig Bridge was one of the last major tasks Beblos before his retirement. After 1936, Beblo lived in retirement at his home in Munich -Giesing. He died at the age of 74 and was buried in the cemetery at Munich Perlacher Forest, at the planning he himself had participated. For his outstanding service to the city of Munich, a road was in 1955 in Bogenhausen named after him.

Writings

• Alemannic and Frankish elements of the Strasbourg town house, in: Alsace-Lorraine Jb 3, 1924, pp. 92-104
• The architecture in Alsace- Lorraine from 1871 to 1918. In: The National Rural Alsace-Lorraine 1871-1918, Vol 3, science, art and literature in Alsace-Lorraine from 1871 to 1918, Frankfurt aM 1934, pp. 241-263.