Georg Lohr

Georg Friedrich Lohr (born November 9, 1861 in Speyer ; † May 8, 1945 in Fissau ) was a German architect and chief building officer.

Live and act

Georg Lohr was a son of Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Lohr (1809-1884) and his wife Karoline Magdalene, née Maxe (1822-1912). He attended the Realgymnasium Speyer, which he left in August 1881 with the final exam. From the winter semester of 1881 to the 1st main examination on March 18, 1887, he studied at the TH Berlin . During this period he did his military service and spent the summer semester of 1884 at the TH Munich . From May 28, 1887 to April 30, 1890 he worked as a government construction manager. He was in charge of the extension of hospitals and schools in Charlottenburg . He also took on orders from the district building inspection in Teltow and the government in Potsdam .

Lohr passed the Great State Examination for Building Construction and was then appointed government master builder on October 24, 1891. This gave him a new job in Graudenz . He worked here until the Ministry of Public Works convened him on July 1, 1892. In this position he made several drafts, including in 1892 for the government building in Osnabrück and on March 1, 1893 for the new building of the operating room and the expansion of the chemical institute in Kiel. Here he also designed the expansion of the women's clinic and the kitchen in 1897/98. In 1898 he planned the new building for the psychiatric and mental hospital, completed in 1901.

On October 1, 1900, Lohr was appointed provisional, and on April 1, 1902, the scheduled district building inspector Kiel I. On October 4, 1907, he was promoted to the royal building officer, on April 4, 1917 he got a position as government and building officer. From December 13, 1924 until his retirement on April 1, 1927, he worked as a senior building officer.

In office, Lohr was considered an eloquent, humorous and confident leader and lively well into old age. He first lived in Kiel with his wife Anna Adolpha von Zerssen (1873–1957), whom he married in 1904 and with whom he had a son and two daughters. During the Second World War he left the city due to war-related damage and moved to Fissau, where he died.

Buildings

Lohr designed many buildings himself or took over the supervision of the construction work. The larger orders included:

• 1899–1901: the Institute of Physics
• 1900: the meridian house of the Kiel observatory
• 1905–1907: the Pathological Institute
• 1907–1909: the Kiel art gallery
• 1909: the Seeburg (Kiel)
• 1912: the teachers' seminar and the director's house of the observatory
• 1915: the boat and fencing hall
• 1922/23: the institute building of the Prussian experimental and research institute for dairy farming
• 1926: the agricultural institutes of Kiel University

There were also expansion measures, which were often similar to new buildings. These included:

• 1900–1902: the main building of Kiel University and the extension of the auditorium
• 1900: Extension of the academic hospital by a lecture hall
• 1901 and 1908: Expansion of the chemical institute
• 1902 and 1904: Expansion of the anatomical institute
• 1903: Extension of the gynecological clinic to include an obstetrics department
• 1906: Addition of a side magazine for the Kiel University Library , which could hold 170,000 volumes
• 1908: Extension to the Physikalisches Institut
• 1909: Construction of a lecture hall for the Botanical Institute
• 1910–1912: Expansion of the eye clinic
• 1911: Construction of a lecture hall for the Zoological Institute
• 1913: Expansion of the Physiological Institute
• 1914: Extension of the anatomical institute by a grand piano
• 1917: Conversion of the previous operating theater into an ear clinic
• 1922–1924: A septic wing is added to the women's clinic
• 1923/24: Extension of the Nydamboot room at the Museum of Patriotic Antiquities
• 1925: Expansion and extension of an isolation house in the children's clinic

Honors

Georg Lohr has received numerous awards for his achievements:

• On the occasion of the completion of the surgical clinic in 1904 he was awarded the Red Eagle Order IV class.
• At the inauguration of the Kiel Kunsthalle in 1909 he was awarded the Royal Order of the Crown III. Class.
• In 1918 he was awarded the Cross of Merit for War Aid.
• The University of Kiel made him an honorary citizen on August 5, 1926.

literature

• Rudolf Jaeger: Lohr, Georg . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 125–126