(Franz Joseph Ruf)
* 1908 in Munich
† 1982 in Munich
- studied at the Technical University of Munich, Diploma 1931
- from 1931 freelance architect
- 1942–1945 military service
- 1945 reestablishment of his office
- 1947–1953 professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nuremberg
- 1952–1954 construction of the new academy building, Nuremberg
- 1949–1951 Bayerische Staatsbank, Nuremberg
- 1953–1972 professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
- 1957–1960 President of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
- from 1953 Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg
- 1954–1956 Neue Maxburg Munich (with Theo Pabst)
- 1958 buildings of the World Exhibition Brussels (with Egon Eiermann)
- from 1960 BHF-Bank, Frankfurt
- from 1963 Kanzlerbungalow, Bonn; further government buildings in Bonn; administrative, church and museum buildings, especially in Munich, Nuremberg and Fulda; work as designer; recipient of various awards
