Fritz Schupp
Fritz Schupp ( born December 22, 1896 in Uerdingen, † 1 August 1974 in Essen ) was a German architect.
Life
From 1914 to 1917 Schupp studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, the Technical University of Munich and the Technical University of Stuttgart, where he received his diploma in 1919. He was freelance, first he worked alone. From 1922 he ran together with Martin Kremmer until his death in 1945 an architectural partnership based in Essen and Berlin. From 1949 Schupp taught at the Technical University of Hannover and in 1951 an honorary professor there.
Fritz Schupp planned 1920-1974 - according to the current state of research - a total of 69 industrial plants. From Schupp and Kremmer an inventory of 17,500 sketches and plans have been handed over to the Mining Archives in Bochum, which is developed systematically since 2004.
The best-known work by Schupp and Kremmer is the mine Zeche Zollverein 12, since December 2001 a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. 1964, the Federal Cross of Merit awarded him. After Fritz Schupp a street in Gelsenkirchen -Horst, the main access road to the site Zollverein in Essen and since early 2009 is also named a road in a new housing estate in Gladbeck district Butendorf.