Johannes Krüger (architect)

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Johannes Krüger (born November 23, 1890 in Berlin ; † May 7, 1975 there ) was a German architect .

Together with his brother Walter Krüger , he studied from 1909 to 1913 at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . After passing the second state examination, he was appointed government architect ( assessor in the public building administration) in 1919.

The brothers carried out numerous buildings, including many residential and commercial buildings in Berlin-Frohnau and Westend . Their most famous buildings are the Tannenberg monument in Olsztynek  (German Hohenstein ) (1925–1927), which was expanded to the resting place of Paul von Hindenburg in 1934 , the Berlin-Plötzensee swimming pool (1926–1928), the Holtzendorff garage in Berlin- Wilmersdorf (1928–1929), the residential and commercial buildings on Zeltinger Platz (1929–1932) with the Protestant Johanneskirche in Berlin-Frohnau (1931–1936), the aerial warfare school in Dresden - Klotzsche (1938), the crypt for Henry the Lion in the Brunswick Cathedral (1937), and the former Spanish Embassy in Berlin-Tiergarten (1938–1943).

After the war they designed some commercial buildings, preferably for banks such as the Berliner Landeszentralbank (1952–1953), in Berlin-Charlottenburg and residential buildings in Schönberg and Wilmersdorf.

literature

  • Elke Blauert (Ed.): Walter Krüger, Johannes Krüger - Architects. Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-88609-491-X .

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