Fick, Roderich, born 16-11-1886 in Würzburg,
the second child
of the eye specialist Adolf Eugen Gaston Fick
and Marie Katharina, born Wislicenus. Daughter of Johannes Wislicenus
a German chemist who died age 67, on 05-12-1902 in Leopzig. Roderick’s sister Hildegard was born in Richmond in 1885. In 1887 the family moved to Zürich where his father became a private teacher at the University. He grew up in Zürich and studied architecture in Zürich, Munich and Dresden. In 1911 he participated in an expedition to Greenland and in 1914 he left for the German colony Cameroon where he worked as an engineer. With the outbreak of the first war he became a Leutnant of the Reserve in Kamaron. His brother Roland was severely wounded in the battle of Tahura and died on 09-07-1916 in a French hospital, a lost which hit him hard. Next to his brother Roland, Fick had five sisters from whom Hildegard as oldest died, age 3, of diphtheria in 1890. On 27-12-1919 he married Marie Günther
from Dresden and they settled in Herrsching, Bavaria. He started working as an architect. He built a home in Herrsching for the sculptor Ernesto de Fiori








He trained under Theodor Fischer, and became professor at the Munich Technical University in 1935. Fischer










Bormann’s house after the bombardment. Hitler’s Teahouse on the Mooslahnerkopf.


However, none of these previous projects were to be as spectacular and as technically testing as the Teehaus on the Kehlstein mountain. Fick’s structure was essentially a massive granite square with the largest room, the main reception hall, being octagonal in shape with a large panoramic window. This and other specially-placed windows would provide both the Führer and his visitors with a breathtaking view of the surrounding mountains as well as both the Scharitzkehl Valley and the Königssee lake.











Death and burial ground of Fick, Roderich.
Roderick Fick died at the age of 68, on 13-07-1955 and is buried on the by his own designed new village cemetery of Herrsching, in front of his chapel
. His wife continued her work as an architect until the late 1970s. Their daughter Friederike Orth,
became a musician.




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Jeanie Hostland
I would like to know what happened to Herr Fick’s daughter, who was born in 1950.
Rob Hopmans
I nowhere could find any information about her, sorry.
Rob Hopmans