Karl von Loehr

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Karl von Loehr (born January 29, 1875 in Mainz , German Empire ; † August 28, 1958 in Kronberg , Taunus , Federal Republic of Germany ) was a German architect.

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origin

Karl von Loehr came from a respected Mainz family who were once in the service of the electors and archbishops of Mainz . Because of her special merits she was in 1729 by Emperor Charles VI. raised to the nobility.

The grandfather Joseph Ferdinand Karl von Loehr von Loehrbach (* December 20, 1817 in Gießen , † December 28, 1876 in San Francisco , USA ) was a respected doctor in Worms . He was a staunch democrat and was elected President of the Worms German Catholic Community in 1845. In 1848 he became a member of the revolutionary state parliament. Because of his involvement in the revolution , he had to flee to North America after its failure in 1851. There he worked as a doctor at the German Hospital in San Francisco until his death.

The father Ferdinand von Loehr (* 1844, † 1908) studied philosophy , but initially ran a wine shop in Mainz before becoming a partner in the Rheinische Strohzellstoff Aktiengesellschaft in Rheindürkheim near Worms. He married Frieda Schmitz, who also came from a Mainz family.

Youth and studies

The marriage of Ferdinand von Loehr to Frieda Schmitz had three children: Ferdinand, who died at the age of 12, his sister Else and Karl.

Karl von Loehr first attended the Realgymnasium in Mainz . After graduating from high school , he studied at the technical universities in Darmstadt , Munich and Karlsruhe ; There he also passed the state examination in building construction in 1900.

architect

From 1898 to 1901 he was assistant to senior building officer Professor Carl Schäfer at the Technical University in Karlsruhe. He then settled in Frankfurt am Main as a freelance architect . In 1901 he moved into a representative villa in Kronberg am Taunus.

In 1906 he married Bertha von Burnitz, the daughter of the painter Carl Peter von Burnitz , one of the founders of the Kronberg painter colony . The marriage had three children:

  •  Lotte (* 1911, † NN)
  •  Erwin (* 1915, † NN)
  • Rolf (* 1918, † 1990)

In 1910 he was appointed lecturer for interior decoration and ornamentation at the Technical University of Aachen as the successor to Privy Councilor Professor Georg Frentzen . On June 3, 1910, he was awarded the title of professor . On October 1, 1914, he left the university and worked as a freelance architect. He was also a member of the supervisory board of Rheinische Strohzellstoff AG.

His most famous buildings include (selection):

For many years he was chairman of the Association of German Architects in the former province of Hessen-Nassau.

Karl von Loehr died on August 28, 1958 in Kronberg and was buried in the family crypt in the main cemetery in Mainz .

Gallery (selection)

  • Orange Memorial Church in Wiesbaden-Biebrich

  • Heidelberg Castle, Friedrichsbau

  • Towers of Meissen Cathedral

  • The Sauerburg in the Wispertal

literature

  • Deutsche Biographie (NDB), Vol. 15, pp. 45-46
  • 100 years of the Orange Memorial Church 1905–2005 (a house of God through the ages).  A commemorative publication; Published by the Evangelical Orange Memorial Church Community, Wiesbaden-Biebrich 2005

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessian biography (Internet)
  2. ↑ The son Rolf was a graduate engineer and works manager at the Rheinische Strohzellstoff Aktiengesellschaft; he was the successor to his father Karl on the local supervisory board.
  3. ↑ Quoted from a contribution by Rolf Faber:  The Orange Memorial Church - an architectural monument in the course of time  (in the above-mentioned Festschrift)


personal data
SURNAME Loehr, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1958
Place of death Kronberg , Taunus , Federal Republic of Germany