Roderich Fick
Roderich Fick (16 November 1886 – 13 July 1955) was a German architect most prominent during the Nazi regime. Fick became a professor at the Munich Technical University in 1935, designed the Munich residence of Rudolf Hess in 1936, joined the NSDAP in 1937, and thereby secured Nazi projects such as various buildings at Adolf Hitler's Obersalzberg complex and such as SS barracks. Fick also was given the task of redesigning Linz.
Roderich Fick
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- Name
- Roderich Fick
- Born
- 16 November 1886
- Birthplace
- Würzburg, Germany
- Died
- 13 July 1955
- Place of death
- Munich, Germany
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- architect · university teacher
- Fields
- architecture
- Languages
- German
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Roderich Fick (16 November 1886 – 13 July 1955) was a German architect most prominent during the Nazi regime. Fick became a professor at the Munich Technical University in 1935, designed the Munich residence of Rudolf Hess in 1936, joined the NSDAP in 1937, and thereby secured Nazi projects such as various buildings at Adolf Hitler's Obersalzberg complex and such as SS barracks. Fick also was given the task of redesigning Linz.
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His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics. After the war, Fick was officially classified as a Mitläufer, a 'fellow traveller', a person passively complicit in Nazi crimes. Fick participated in the reconstruction of Linz, and retired to practice in Bavaria. His first wife died on 2 October 1938; in 1948, he married Catharina Büscher, 28 years his junior. His daughter, Friedrike, was born in 1950.
Buildings Wiesser str 18 former post office building. Flat gable roof, base Rustika blocks, half Windows Dungeon style window with ornament grids, cornerstone pillar in the style of medieval castle walls, deep window jambs, alpine variant of Homeland Security style, style for residential buildings in the so-called Third Reich, thirties of the twentieth century, in the style of the Third Reich arch
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Herrsching, Scheuermannstraße 1. Wohnhaus, zweigeschossiger Walmdachbau in reduzierten neuklassizistischen Formen von Roderich Fick um 1930.
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• Name — Roderich Fick • Born — 16 November 1886 • Birthplace — Würzburg, Germany • Died — 13 July 1955 • Place of death — Munich, Germany
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