Fritz Schupp

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Fritz Schupp (22 December 1896 – 1 August 1974) was a German architect. He studied from 1914 to 1917 at the Universities of Karlsruhe, Munich and Stuttgart. Although he mostly worked alone, he formed a partnership with Martin Kremmer, based in Essen and Berlin. From 1949 he was a lecturer at the Technical University of Hannover. Between 1920 and 1974 he built 69 factories and plants. The Bergbauarchiv in Bochum holds about 17,500 of his sketches for researchers. His best-known work is the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.