Georg Osthoff

Georg Anton Osthoff (born September 19, 1844 in Vechta ; † December 9, 1898 in Charlottenburg ) was a German architect and municipal building officer

Life

Georg Osthoff studied construction at the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe and at the Polytechnic School in Hanover .

For the years between 1865 and 1875 activities in railway construction and as a scientific assistant at the Polytechnic School in Hanover are documented. After passing the 2nd state examination , he was appointed government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration). However, he left the civil service and became city ​​architect in Oldenburg i. O . From 1884 he worked as a town architect and from 1885 to 1887 town planning officer in Plauen .

In 1888 he moved to Berlin , where he was self-employed as the owner of a planning office specializing in the design and implementation of slaughterhouses , four markets and market halls . Around 1896 he gave up this freelance activity and became city building officer in Neustrelitz .

The buildings executed according to his plans include the slaughterhouses and cattle yards in Schwerin , Halle (Saale) , Breslau- Pöpelwitz, Düsseldorf , Plauen, Cottbus , Dessau , Kleve , Neisse , and Tilsit , as well as the city barracks hospital and the city Hospital in Plauen.

literature

• Leaves for architecture and handicrafts , 1st year, 1888, No. 4, p. 47 (Personal-Nachrichten)
• Herbert Mundhenke : The matriculation of the higher trade school, the polytechnic school and the technical university of Hanover . Hildesheim 1988–1992 (3 volumes), registration number 4162.
• Günther Kokkelink , Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Architecture in Northern Germany. Architecture and handicrafts of the Hanover School 1850–1900 . Hanover 1998.

References

• Georg Osthoff in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902)
• Georg Osthoff on www.findagrave.com