Eduard Scheler

Eduard August Scheler (born October 10, 1883 in Coburg , † August 19, 1964 in Cologne ) was a German architect .

Scheler studied at the building trade school in Coburg and at the Technical University of Munich . He then lived in Cologne-Lindenthal . From 1908 he worked with Henry Mattar in the architects law firm Mattar & Scheler . They created numerous designs and executed buildings, which stylistically can be assigned to the Heimatstil , among other things .

In 1910 he married Wilhelmine Katharina Braun, who died before him. Scheler died at the age of 80 in a Cologne hospital.

Buildings and designs

Projects outside of the Mattar & Scheler office :

• 1908: Competition design for the mechanical engineering school in Essen (together with Otto Heinecke; awarded the 2nd prize of 1500 marks)
• 1956: Linz am Rhein , Grüner Weg 44, single-family house (preserved)

literature

• Scheler, Eduard . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . tape 6 : Second addendum with corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1922, p. 248 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Death certificate no. 1345 from August 20, 1964, Cologne Old Town registry office. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 3, 2018 . 
2. ^ Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg ( Memento from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 19.4 MB), accessed on October 31, 2013
3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Volume 28, No. 37, May 9, 1908, p. 260 digital.zlb.de ).
4. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb (= city ​​traces, monuments in Cologne, Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 934.
5. ^ District administration Neuwied, Lower Monument Protection Authority (ed.): H. Mattar & E. Scheler. Architects of the "Heimatstyle" and their buildings in Linz and Neuwied. Neuwied 2001, ISBN 3-920388-95-X , p. 45.