Fritz Beblo

Architect

1872 – 1947

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Who was Fritz Beblo?

Friedrich Karl Ewald Beblo, called Fritz Beblo was a German city planner, architect and painter.

His father, Emil Beblo, was a secondary school teacher. Fritz was a class comrade of actor Friedrich Kayssler and author and poet Christian Morgenstern at the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau, where his father also taught. Fritz got his lifelong love of music from his father. His mother took particular care of Christian Morgenstern when he and her son became acquainted with each other. After leaving secondary school in 1883, Beblo first attended the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in Berlin. Here, he lived in close contact with his school friends Kayssler and Morgenstern. The three of them founded a cabaret and the regulars' table, Der Galgenberg. As one of the "gallows brothers", Beblo got the nickname of Stumme Hannes. Like the future actor, Friedrich Kayssler, Beblo maintained lifelong contact with his school friend from Breslau, Morgenstern.

In 1896, Beblo continued his studies at the Technischen Hochschule Karlsruhe with Professor Carl Schäfer, a renowned architect. His friendship with the painter Adolf Erbslöh is from this period. After finishing his studies in architecture, Beblo first went to the fortress Festung Ehrenbreitstein near Koblenz as the royal Prussian site manager and then to Traben-Trarbach on the Moselle River. There he participated in building the Moselle Bridge. After passing the examination for Baumeister in 1902, he took over supervision of the building site for the new secondary school in Traben-Trarbach and built an adult education center according to his own designs. In the same year, he married Melanie Luise Knoch, whom he had met in Karlsruhe. He and his wife had three children. Beblo's daughter, Anne married Christian Kayssler, the son of his friend, Friedrich Kayssler. Both of his sons became architects, like their father. Fritz Beblo was an illustrator of several children's books by Morgenstern, as well as books by his daughter, Anne Kayssler-Beblo.

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Born
Nov 10, 1872
Wrocław
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Lived in
  • Wrocław
Died
Apr 11, 1947
Munich

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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