Karl Lachner (building scientist)

Karl Lachner (also: Carl Lachner * 10. April 1841 in Munich , † 22. May 1926 in Hannover ) was a German Bauwissenschaftler , engineers , artisans , principals and school and government advice . He published in particular on the wooden architecture of Germany.

Life

Carl Lachner, who was born in Munich in 1841 at the time of the Kingdom of Bavaria, studied at the Technical University of his hometown. After the founding of the empire in 1876, he took a position as a teacher for building science at the higher trade school in Hildesheim. In 1880 he was employed as director of the Hildesheim craft school and in this function became a sponsor of the Hildesheim painter Carl Saeger .

In the 1880s Lachner wrote important works about the wooden architecture in Germany and especially that of the city of Hildesheim.

From 1888 to 1899 Lachner worked as director of the Hanover School of Applied Arts . He then worked in Berlin as a government and trade school councilor in the Ministry of Commerce until 1905. Finally he returned to Lower Saxony and lived in Braunschweig and Hanover in the first quarter of the 20th century.

Fonts (selection)

History of wood construction in Germany. An attempt , with an introduction to the work of Manfred Gerner, reprint of the Leipzig, Seemann edition, 1885 and 1887
- Hanover: Edition Libri Rari Schäfer, 1983, ISBN 978-3-88746-068-6 and ISBN 3-88746-068-5 ; contents
  - Part 1: Northern German timber construction in its historical development
  - Part 2: The South German frame construction and block construction
- Reprint of the original edition Leipzig, Seemann, 1887, Holzminden: Reprint-Verlag Leipzig, [1996?], ISBN 978-3-8262-1202-4 and ISBN 3-8262-1202-9
Textbooks for specialist teaching at commercial advanced training, vocational and technical schools , Leipzig: Seemann & Co .;
- Series A: technical drawing ,
  - Issue 2.5., Ed. by M. Schramm: Electrician , 2nd edition, 1924
  - Issue 5 [actually: 2], 11: Gardener , arr. by H. Holm, 1924
  - Issue 3, 7: Korbmacher , Part 1, by F. Lehner, 1st edition, 1924
- Series B:
  - Booklet 4, 1 a: Painter (lower level) , 1925
  - Book 5, 1: The gardener , arr. H. Holm, 1925

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Information in the catalog of the German National Library
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Helga Stein : Color on the bone hewer office building. A documentation (= sources and documentation on the city history of Hildesheim , Vol. 1), Ed .: Stadt Hildesheim, Stadtarchiv, Hildesheim: Stadtarchiv, 1993, p. 61; limited preview in Google Book search

personal data
SURNAME	Lachner, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lachner, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German building scientist, engineer, craftsperson, headmaster, school and government councilor and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	May 22, 1926
Place of death	Hanover

[DNB-1] Information in the catalog of the German National Library

[Helga_Stein-2] Helga Stein : Color on the bone hewer office building. A documentation (= sources and documentation on the city history of Hildesheim , Vol. 1), Ed .: Stadt Hildesheim, Stadtarchiv, Hildesheim: Stadtarchiv, 1993, p. 61; limited preview in Google Book search