Friedrich Zollinger

Born and raised in Wiesbaden, Zollinger completed his Abitur in 1898 to graduate from secondary school (Städtischen Oberrealschule).

At the beginning of the First World War he served in the military for three months before taking the place of the recently deceased city architect of Berlin-Neukölln.

At the same time he founded the Merseburg construction company, where he was able to apply his creativity to provide low-cost accommodation.

In 1932 Zollinger finally left Merseburg and until 1934 he taught at the Technical University of Darmstadt, after which he moved to Munich.

The system has been developed in Germany in the early 20th century by Friedrich Zollinger and has been mostly used to construct curved roofs.

In Merseburg, City Planning Councillor Friedrich Zollinger was involved with developing industrial mass production methods for standardised building systems.

In 1926, the European Customs Construction Syndicate AG advertised on a leaflet with 850,000 square metres already built.

Even if from today's point of view the approximate calculations carried out at that time prove to be insufficient, the large number of preserved roofs shows that the Zollinger construction had sufficient load-bearing capacity.

[8] In recent years, the Zollinger system has been used in a number of projects, including the Hansemesse Rostock, Germany (albeit with a different connection detail),[9] the bird observatory in Haringvliet, Netherlands[10] and an exhibition space in Nuuksio, Finland.