Carl Jäger (architect)

Carl Jäger (* 1868 in Grimma ; † November 27, 1961 ) was a German architect who mainly worked in Munich .

Life

Villa at Pienzenauerstraße 53 in Munich

Villa Äussere Rosenheimer Strasse 21 in Traunstein

After studying and working as an architect, Carl Jäger joined Martin Dülfer's architecture office in Munich in 1900 . There he was commissioned with the Herzogpark project. A long collaboration and friendship with Paul Ludwig Troost , Dülfer's office manager, who later designed interiors for Jäger's villas before he became a preferred architect for Hitler , dated from this time .

A few years later, Jäger went into business for himself and lived, married to Dorothea Freiin von Krüdener , on Kaulbachstrasse, where their daughter Elisabeth was born in 1903. She married the painter Eugen Croissant .

After the death of his wife in 1915, Carl Jäger married her girlfriend Helene von Kiel in 1916, with whom he had two daughters. In 1917 Jäger was honored with the title of royal professor.

In the 1920s, Jäger had a studio in the Palais Leuchtenberg together with his colleague Franz Prettner.

Buildings (selection)

in Munich:

• 1900s: Group of houses Pienzenauerstraße 22 / 22a / 24
• 1904: Residential building Adalbertstrasse 108
• 1907/08: Villa, Kolbergerstrasse 16
• around 1910: Villa Woerner, Mauerkircherstraße 48
• 1913: Villa, Heinrich-Vogl-Strasse 17
• 1921: Administration building, Mauerkircherstraße 31
• 1922: Villa, Heinrich-Vogl-Strasse 11
• 1922/23: Villa Larisch, Gabriel-von-Seidl-Straße 41a, with Peter Birkenholz
• 1924: Villa Willers, Pienzenauerstraße 53
• Münzing House, Newtonstrasse 3
• Rudolf Weigmann House, Denninger Strasse

other structures:

• 1914–22: Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Johannes in Bechhofen
• 1920–24: Aufkirchen power plant in Notzing
• 1923/24: Villa Äußere Rosenheimer Straße 21 in Traunstein
• 1925: Catholic parish church St. Jakobus d. Ä. in Elbersroth , City of Herrieden

Web links

• Biography of Carl Jäger (with photo)