Ludwig von Stempel

Ludwig Stempel , knight of Stempel since 1908 (born November 4, 1850 in Grünstadt , † July 30, 1917 in Kaiserslautern ), was a German architect of historicism and a Bavarian building officer . He designed numerous administrative buildings, but also individual private houses on the territory of the Kingdom of Bavaria , especially in the Bavarian Palatinate . At the end of his professional career he was head of the Supreme Building Authority in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior .

Life

Redemptorist Church in Cham

Former post office in Pirmasens

Ludwig Stempel, son of a teacher of the same name, attended the Progymnasium Grünstadt and studied architecture at the Polytechnic School in Munich during Gottfried von Neureuther's time .

In 1877 he came as assessor at the Royal. Landbauamt Kaiserslautern. In 1886 he was appointed building officer and head of the authority. His most important buildings in the Palatinate include the Apostle Church in Kaiserslautern and the main post offices in Kaiserslautern and Pirmasens , which are stylistically assigned to the Neo-Renaissance and are reminiscent of Italian palazzi.

From autumn 1897 to February 1898 he was a temporary district building officer at the Kgl. Government for Upper Franconia in Bayreuth . He then moved to the Kgl as senior building officer and consultant for cultural buildings. Supreme building authority to Munich .

In 1909 he was appointed Ministerialrat. From 1915 until his retirement in 1917, he finally served as the head of the Supreme Building Authority in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, succeeding Richard Reverdy . During his work in Munich, he was responsible for the construction of several extensions to the Munich University Hospital , including the polyclinic and the eye clinic.

Only a few months after his retirement, Ludwig von Stempel died of pneumonia at the age of 66 in his former main place of work in Kaiserslautern.

Honors

Several medals were awarded during his lifetime. In 1905 he received the Order of Merit of St. Michael III from the Bavarian Crown . Class. In 1907 he received the Commander's Cross of the Imperial Austrian Franz Joseph Order . In 1908 the Prussian Red Eagle Order III was awarded. Class. In the same year he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , with which the personal nobility was associated.

In the 100th year of his death, the building committee of the city of Kaiserslautern decided on January 16, 2017 to name the area between Trippstadter Straße, Parkstraße and Sturmstraße on the edge of the Kaiserslauter city park as Ludwig-Ritter-von-Stempel-Platz in honor of the architect .

Work (selection)

1890: Royal main post office in Kaiserslautern
1891–1893: Kottenschule in Kaiserslautern
1891–1893: Royal main post office in Pirmasens, today Forum Alte Post
1892–1893: Villa Munzinger in Kaiserslautern
1893: Royal District Command in Kaiserslautern, today Police Headquarters West Palatinate
1897: Royal Main Customs Office in Kaiserslautern, today Kaiserslautern Tax Office
1897–1901: Apostle Church in Kaiserslautern
1899–1900: Humberg Tower in Kaiserslautern
1900–1902: Redemptorist Church and Monastery in Cham
1902: High school at the Kaiserdom in Speyer
1905–1908: Eye Clinic at the University of Munich
1907–1910: Polyclinic of the University of Munich
1911–1913: Main building of the Botanical Institute of the University of Munich, today Botanical State Collection
District Court Pirmasens , District Court Landstuhl , District Court Kirchheimbolanden
Administration building for the district office of Pirmasens and for the district office of Homburg

Humbergturm in the south of Kaiserslautern
former post office in Kaiserslautern
former district command in Kaiserslautern
Eye Clinic at the University of Munich
Kottenschule Kaiserslautern

literature

Obituary. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . 37th year 1917, No. 67 from August 18, 1917.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig von Stempel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Biographical website

Individual evidence

↑ Annual report on the Royal Bavarian Latin School in Grünstadt in the Palatinate, in the academic year 1864/65. P. 3, p. 9; (Digital view)
↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 35th year 1915, No. 59 from July 2, 1915.
↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 25th year 1905, No. 9 from January 28th 1905.
↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 27th year 1907, No. 21 from March 9th 1907.
↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 23 of March 21, 1908.
↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 29th year 1909, No. 1 from January 3, 1909.
↑ https://www.kaiserslautern.de/buerger_rathaus_politik/medienportal/pressemitteilungen/045022/index.html.de , accessed on January 23, 2017

personal data
SURNAME	Stamp, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stamp, Ludwig Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect of historicism and Bavarian building officer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 4, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grünstadt
DATE OF DEATH	July 30, 1917
Place of death	Kaiserslautern

[1] Annual report on the Royal Bavarian Latin School in Grünstadt in the Palatinate, in the academic year 1864/65. P. 3, p. 9; (Digital view)

[2] Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 35th year 1915, No. 59 from July 2, 1915.

[3] Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 25th year 1905, No. 9 from January 28th 1905.

[4] Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 27th year 1907, No. 21 from March 9th 1907.

[5] Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 23 of March 21, 1908.

[6] Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 29th year 1909, No. 1 from January 3, 1909.

[7] ttps://www.kaiserslautern.de/buerger_rathaus_politik/medienportal/pressemitteilungen/045022/index.html.de , accessed on January 23, 2017