Ernst Nolte (architect)

Wing of the FWG Cologne

Ernst Max Nolte (born January 30, 1897 in Lüdenscheid ; † February 16, 1973 in Cologne ) was a German architect who was best known for his buildings in Cologne.

career

Nolte started his professional career as an assistant to Georg Steinmetz in Berlin and as an employee in Paul Bonatz's office in Stuttgart , until he worked with Adolf Abel , who was appointed building director in Cologne, for almost three years, among other things, at the Cologne exhibition center in 1925 participated. In 1928 he set up his own design office in Cologne-Lindenthal .

Since 1924 Nolte was married to Gertrud Hildegard Blezinger. He died in 1973 at the age of 76 in a Cologne hospital.

Act

Tower of the Stadtsparkasse Cologne on Barbarossaplatz

In addition to his own house in Lindenthal, Haus Nolte (1933), before the Second World War he built the village school with a teacher's house (1936/1937) in the then Rodenkirchen district of Meschenich . After the war it became known for its functional school and commercial buildings:

1951/1959: Reconstruction of the in Genter Straße ( Neustadt-Nord )
1952/1957: Primary school in Altonaer Strasse in Cologne-Longerich
1954/1957: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (under monument protection )
1955/1956: Tower of the Stadtsparkasse Köln on Barbarossaplatz (with characteristic dovetail roof)
1956/1957: Cologne's first multi-storey car park with a hotel on Augustinerplatz

Award

1967 Cologne Architecture Prize

Literature / sources

Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln, Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , p. 904 f. (Catalog raisonné)
Eva Christine Raschke: Cologne: School buildings 1815–1964. History, meaning, documentation. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln, Volume 15.), JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7616-1471-3 , p. 520 and others
Ulrich S. Soenius , Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon . Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 . P. 398.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Death certificate No. 616 from February 19, 1973, registry office Cologne West. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 26, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Nolte, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nolte, Ernst Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	January 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ludenscheid
DATE OF DEATH	16th February 1973
Place of death	Cologne

[:0-1] Death certificate No. 616 from February 19, 1973, registry office Cologne West. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 26, 2018 .