Albert Lehr

Albert Lehr in the Uniform of a Railway Official (1913)

Otto Albert Arthur Lehr (born May 20, 1874 in Karlsruhe , † December 10, 1960 in Nuremberg ) was a German architect and Bavarian construction clerk who worked as a senior government building officer and senior post building officer in Nuremberg and Würzburg . He was the architect of the Nuremberg Church of St. Paul in the marshalling yard settlement .

biography

family

Lehr's father was the forest scientist and economist Julius Lehr (1845-1894), his mother Karoline Lehr née Calmberg (1848-1924). He was married to Erna Lehr, née von Rode (1887–1956), daughter of Major General Georg von Rode , since 1909 . They had two sons, Roderich Bruno Lehr (* 1916; † 1943 missing in Russia), theology student, and Hermann Lehr (1920–1999), most recently pastor in Burgthann .

education and profession

Teaching in the office

Lehr, called "Wams" by his friends, studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich after attending the humanistic grammar school in Munich . In 1901 he passed the second state examination as the best of the year. In 1903 he became a railway assessor and head of the Bamberg building construction management department. Active in Nuremberg since 1907, he worked as a superstructure inspector for six years, among other things on the development of the large railway housing estate near the Nuremberg marshalling yard.

As a special task, the design and construction of the Protestant Church of St. Paul in this settlement was entrusted to him, the only Nuremberg church of reform architecture . The consecration of the church took place on September 7, 1913. The festschrift said: “Our Paulskirche makes an impressive overall impression on the visitor. Plain and simple and yet not commonplace; serious, at times coarse and yet intimate, homely; without much decoration, but of enormous architecture - so we see it towering powerfully with its two defiant towers; even from the outside, the image of a genuinely Protestant church ”.

He was sent to Istanbul by the Bavarian State Railways as an architect's assistant. There he worked on the construction of the Haydarpaşa train station (construction began in 1906, inauguration in 1908). In 1913 he became a member of the board of directors at the railway directorate in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , and in 1920 he was senior government member of the Oberpostdirektion in Würzburg.

Due to profound hearing loss, Lehr retired in 1933.

Honors:

• Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of St. Michael IV Class
• Ludwig Cross .

Buildings and designs

Chancel of the Church of St. Paul (photo 2008)

• from 1907: Railway workers' settlement at the Nuremberg marshalling yard
• 1913: Protestant St. Paul Church in Nuremberg
• 1926: Post office Kleinheubach (with Christoph Miller and Karl Schineis)
• 1926–1927: Post Office Mellrichstadt (with Christoph Miller)
• 1928: Aschaffenburg motor vehicle hall (with Christoph Miller and Heinrich Götzger)
• 1929: Residential building in Würzburg-Zellerau (with Christoph Miller and Heinrich Götzger)

Fonts

Proposal for a workers' apartment (1911)

• The way of living of working-class families in Bavaria. In: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums , year 1911, no. 8. ( digitized version ); → Book cover and table of contents

literature

• Ferdinand Schmidt (Ed.): The new St. Paulskirche in Nuremberg marshalling yard. Publishing house of the Protestant Church Building Association, Nuremberg 1913.
• Festschrift 75 years Nuremberg / St. Paul 1913–1988. Nuremberg 1988.
• Florian Aicher, Uwe Drepper: Robert Vorhoelzer. An architect's life. The classic modernity of the Post. Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7667-0960-7 .

Web links

Commons : Albert Lehr  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register StA Carlsruhe, No. 474/1874
2. ↑ Death register StA I Nuremberg, No. 3719/1960
3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 23, 1903, No. 55 (from July 11, 1903), p. 337. ( digitized version )
4. ↑ www.offene-kirche-bayern.de: Nürnberg - St. Paul ( Memento from September 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
5. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 41st year 1921, No. 1 (from January 1, 1921), p. 1. ( digitized version )
6. ↑ Painting by G. Völker on www.edition-lade.com.
7. ↑ Werner Jürgensen: St. Paul (ev.) . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( complete edition online ).