Karl Lachmann (architect)

Parcel Post and Telegraph Office Wanne (1932)

Post Office Plettenberg (1932)

Karl Lachmann (born July 14, 1887 in Posen ; † after 1933) was a German architect and construction officer .

As a structural engineering consultant for the Oberpostdirektion Dortmund , he designed a number of post offices in the Ruhr area, which can be stylistically classified between brick expressionism and new building . Lachmann was a member of the German Werkbund (DWB).

buildings

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• 1925–1931: New construction of the main post office in Bochum , Willy-Brandt-Platz 1–3 / Viktoriastraße (with Wolfgang Hager) location
• 1931–1932: Post office on Maiplatz in Plettenberg Lage
• 1932: Parcel post and telegraph office in Wanne-Eickel, Wanner Strasse 25 Lage
• 1932–1933: Post office in Wattenscheid , Hochstrasse 31 Lage

Fonts

• Modern postal architecture. In: Die Form, magazine for creative work , issue 2/1928 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Lachmann: Post new Plettenberg . ( Digitized version )
2. ^ Thomas Dann: Postal architecture of West Germany under the influence of the New Building. The Wattenscheid post office on Hochstrasse (1930–1933). In: Post and Telecommunications History , Issue 1/1997 ( digitized version )