Lothar Neumann (architect)

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Lothar Neumann with the colors of the Corps Borussia Breslau, 1959

Lothar Neumann (born March 6, 1891 in Leobschütz ; Upper Silesia , † July 24, 1963 in Hanover ) was a German architect and post office building official . He became known for his design for the post office in Breslau .

Life

Neumann's father was a royal district doctor and medical advisor in Leobschütz. After graduating from high school in his hometown, Lothar Neumann first studied medicine at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms University . In 1910, on the recommendation of District Administrator Fritz Ißmer, he became a member of Corps Borussia Breslau , where he was active together with Lothar Scheche . As a student he fought eleven lengths with a bell hammer and once with a heavy saber . Neumann was an enthusiastic, cheerful corps student of the best camaraderie, sincerity and absolute reliability. He once had to atone for his exuberant nature with a disciplinary sentence of two days in jail, imposed on him by the university . His dismissal was like a true triumphant trip through the city.

After two semesters, Neumann gave up studying medicine. He followed his real inclination and studied architecture at the Technical University of Wroclaw , the Technical University of Danzig and the Technical University of Munich . On August 2, 1914, he registered as a war volunteer with the Hussar Regiment "Graf Goetzen" (2nd Silesian) No. 6 . After a short period of training, Neumann came to France in mid-September 1914 to join the regiment active on the Western Front . In November he moved with this in the association of the 5th Cavalry Division on the Eastern Front in Poland, Hungary and the Bukowina . As a non-commissioned officer , awarded the Iron Cross II. Class, he was taken prisoner by Russia in May 1915 . In February 1918 he escaped in an adventurous way.

Postal check office in Breslau, "high-rise" corner wing

In the autumn of 1918 he passed the main diploma examination in Munich with a “good”. He worked as a government building supervisor ( trainee lawyer ) in Würzburg and finished his preparatory service in 1922 with the 2nd state examination in Munich and the subsequent appointment as government building master ( assessor ). After a temporary independent professional activity in Würzburg and Berlin, he got a position in the building administration of the German Reichspost in the district of the Oberpostdirektion Breslau in 1925 . There he worked for 20 years and rose to senior post office building officer .

Lothar Neumann was married to Hildegard geb. Strecker , a daughter of Karl Strecker . With her he had a son named Volker. After Hildegard Neumann's death, he married Dorothea geb. Wish . The daughter Ulrike came from this marriage. Neumann was a brother-in-law of Eberhard Buchwald .

Medallion at the post office in Breslau, south facade, student with Borussia Breslau circle on his cap

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Neumann's most important building project was the new building for the post office in Wroclaw, built between 1927 and 1929, in the style of brick expressionism . Neumann designed the building at the age of 34 and was also the architect in charge . The post office building has a tower-like, staggered corner wing, which contemporaries considered the first high-rise in Europe east of Berlin. Neumann's red clinker facade was decorated with building sculptures by the sculptor Felix Kupsch , including 20 medallions made of iron clinker brick . Neumann demonstrated his solidarity with his corps in a medallion: a student with a ribbon, cap and circle from Borussia Breslau receives his father's monthly bill from the postal carrier.

During the Second World War , in addition to his full-time work, Neumann held a teaching position for the subject of structural design studies at the Faculty of Construction at the Technical University of Wroclaw until he had to become a soldier again in February 1945. In the post-war period he came to Hanover in 1949. At the Oberpostdirektion Hannover he was reused as a senior building officer .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 78/728.
  2. ↑ a b Lothar Scheche : Lothar Neumann. In: Corps newspaper of Borussia Breslau zu Cologne and Aachen , issue 57 (1964), p. 57.
  3. ↑ Two days in jail! In: Corps newspaper of Borussia Breslau zu Cologne and Aachen , issue 50 (1957), p. 35.
  4. ^ A b c Hermann Sternagel-Haase: Corps history of the Corps Borussia Breslau. Volume 2, Cologne / Aachen 1986.
  5. ↑ https://www.google.de/maps/@51.107629,17.045273,3a,75y,295.44h,93.74t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sT5-8s27ikSqRH-27pn_12w!2e0
  6. ↑ Corps newspaper of Borussia zu Breslau , issue 26 (1925), p. 694.
  7. ↑ https://www.google.de/maps/@51.107241,17.043716,3a,37.5y,14.88h,105.05t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sII60lxdxbKAYgJKdfFd3sQ!2e0
  8. ^ Bernhard Stephan: The new post office in Breslau. In: Schlesische Monatshefte , year 1929, issue 8, page 355. ( http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/plain-content?id=6439 )
  9. ^ Lothar Neumann: The postal check office in Breslau. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 65th year 1931, No. 9/10, page 61. ( online as PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and post office building officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Leobschütz , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1963
Place of death Hanover