Joseph Koehler (Hotelier)
Joseph Köhler (born February 2, 1904 in Berlin ; † June 7, 2001 there ) was a German hotelier .
Life
Joseph Köhler, son of Valentin Köhler and Emma Haiber, studied law. After obtaining his doctorate in law, he worked as a lawyer in Nuremberg. He had been co-owner of the Hotel am Zoo Valentin Köhler & Sohn since 1934 and sole owner of the Berlin Hotel am Zoo at Kurfürstendamm 25, founded by his father in 1911 from 1952 . Joseph Roth lived in the Hotel am Zoo .
After the end of the war, Köhler hosted large conferences with the allied protective powers and the founders of post-war Germany such as Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard; the Hotel am Zoo was the political center of post-war Berlin. In the 1950s, Köhler's family business Hotel am Zoo was the official hotel of the Berlin International Film Festival (“Berlinale”) and was home to the headquarters of the film festival organization as well as national and international big screen stars.
The hotel, which was built as a tenement house by architect Alfred Messel in 1891 , was rebuilt and extended in the 1950s by architect Paul Baumgarten . The listed hotel was closed in 2012 and reopened as Hotel Zoo at the end of 2014 after renovation, refurbishment and modernization.
Köhler was a board member of the International Hotel & Restaurant Association in Germany.
In 1958 he was appointed Knight of the Papal Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in the Church of St. Andrew's Basilica on December 6, 1958 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He held the rank of commander .
He had been married to Magdalene Rottenhauser since June 7, 1932; there were seven children from the marriage. Since 1923 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Markomannia Würzburg .
Awards
- Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Accolade as a Knight of the Holy Sepulcher (1958)
- Papal New Year's Order
- Papal Order of Gregorius
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- Who's who in the Catholic World , Volume 1, p. 350
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Kurfürstendamm: a stroll through Berlin's legendary boulevard , Explorise Grebennikov, 2011
- ↑ Marianne Steltzer: Berlin as it writes & eats: 61 reflections from Berlin authors on their favorite bars , Verlag Georg von Hatzfeld, 1967
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koehler, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hotelier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 2001 |
| Place of death | Berlin |