Lothar Krüger (architect)

Karl Lothar Krüger (born May 25, 1846 in Berlin ; † February 9, 1917 in Potsdam ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Karl Lothar Krüger was the son of a directorate, later war council, and great-grandson of the architect, painter and draftsman Andreas Ludwig Krüger . After graduating from high school, he started as a trainee with Friedrich Adler . He studied at the Berlin Building Academy with a final construction manager examination and then worked practically in the army construction administration. In the autumn of 1877 he went on a trip to Italy. From 1878 he was an assistant at the building academy (from 1879 technical college ). From 1879 to 1885 he worked in the Ministry of Public Works, in the meantime also for the government in Potsdam. Krüger was a member of the Berliner Singakademie from 1881 to 1885 . In 1885 he moved permanently to Potsdam, where he was employed as a building inspector by the government in the Department for Building Police, Church and School Buildings, Buildings of the Provincial College. Before 1892 he was appointed government and building councilor. From 1892 he was a professor at the Technical University and taught building construction . In 1907 he was awarded the Red Eagle Order III as a secret building officer . Class honored. He retired in early 1913.

buildings

• 1878/79: Construction management for the elevation of the monument on the Kreuzberg in Berlin (design by Heinrich Strack and Johann Wilhelm Schwedler )
• 1892/93: Augusta-Viktoria-Nativity in Potsdam
• until 1899: Construction management for the refractory building of the observatory and the Telegraphenberg (design by Paul Spieker )
• 1900–1903: Buildings of the Kaiserin Augusta Foundation in Potsdam
• around 1910: Extension of the town hall , house of the Borchardt Foundation, interior reconstruction of the Nikolaikirche and government building (all in Potsdam)
• 1911: Expansion of the castle in Obersteinbach (Markt Taschendorf) in Franconia
• 1912: Participation in the construction of the Joachimsthal secondary school in Templin

literature

• Miscellaneous . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . tape 37 , no. 20 , March 7, 1917, pp. 128 . Digitized
• Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 53, 54 .