Ludwig Eisenlohr junior

Ludwig Eisenlohr junior (born September 22, 1894 in Stuttgart ; † February 23, 1993 in Überlingen ) was a German architect .

The time before 1933

The son of Ludwig Eisenlohr , having returned from his service as a medical soldier in World War I , studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart with Paul Bonatz and Paul Schmitthenner . From 1920 to 1924 he worked in Alfred Fischer's architecture office in Essen , then together with his future brother-in-law Oscar Pfennig in his father's office in Stuttgart. In 1925 Pfennig and Eisenlohr won first prize in the architecture competition for the midnight building in Stuttgart, which was built from 1926 to 1928. The reinforced concrete structure was made with travertinedisguised. This building is the first evidence of the line that the architects Eisenlohr und Pfennig followed. Eisenlohr and Pfennig also won the competitions for the spa hall in Bad Mergentheim (1926–1928), for the hospital in Waiblingen (1926) and for the merchant convalescent home in Bad Urach (1929).

The high-rise of the Breuninger department store on Stuttgart's market square, which was built between 1929 and 1931, is known to this day. The construction was presented at The International Style exhibition in New York in 1932.

time of the nationalsocialism

Eisenlohr joined the NSDAP as early as 1933 out of concern about his further professional opportunities , tried on the one hand to adapt to the now prevailing taste and on the other hand now increasingly concentrated on industrial construction, which was less restricted by new guidelines than "official" building projects. The administration buildings of Daimler-Benz AG in Sindelfingen and Untertürkheim originate from this phase. In the competition to build the SA school in Rottenburg am Neckar in 1934, he received second prize, the design for the Kochbrunnen in Wiesbaden received first prize in the same year, and the third for the town hall in Reutlingen in 1939. General Command V in Stuttgart-Nord, which the office planned in 1938, was not realized.

post war period

Eisenlohr was involved in the reconstruction of the Graf-Eberhard-Building, but could not build on his earlier successes for the time being. His proposal for the new building of the Liederhalle z. B. found no approval in 1949. After study trips to Switzerland and Sweden, he was able to participate in the planning of the Stuttgart Katharinen Hospital. In his office, which was later continued by his son Werner Eisenlohr , now mainly hospitals and school buildings were planned. B. the Stuttgart Olgahospital including nurses' dormitory and underground car park and the Rotkreuzkrankenhaus in Bad Cannstatt.

literature

• Rüdiger Krisch: Kochhofsiedlung in Stuttgart. In: Tilman Harlander , u. a. (Ed.): Villa and home - Suburban urban development in Germany. Stuttgart / Munich 2001, pp. 229-237.
• Stefanie Plarre: The Kochhofsiedlung. The counter model to the Weißenhofsiedlung. Hohenheim-Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-89850-972-9 .
• Annette Schmidt: Ludwig Eisenlohr. An architectural path from historicism to modernity. Hohenheim-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89850-979-6 . (Monograph about the father Ludwig Eisenlohr senior and the office operations)

Web links

• Ludwig Eisenlohr junior. In: arch INFORM .