Oskar Launer

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Oskar Launer (* 1843 in Schildberg / Province of Posen ; † December 31, 1912 in Berlin ) was a German architect and Prussian construction clerk .

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Oskar Launer, the son of a doctor who was orphaned early, attended the building academy in Berlin from autumn 1864 to December 1866 after graduating from high school in Bromberg , where he qualified as a site manager . After practical work, he took his master builder exam in early 1873 and received jobs in railway construction, including at the Berlin-Wetzlar railway company . On July 1, 1880, he became a building inspector with the government in Köslin . From 1884 to 1889 he was responsible for Charlottenburg at the police headquarters in Berlin .

At the end of 1889 he went to the government in Königsberg and was employed there until 1896 as a government and building councilor. During this time the new university building and the buildings of the general commission were built.

From 1896 to 1901 he worked for the government in Koblenz , where he was a member of the Commission for the Preservation of Monuments in the Rhine Province. He was involved in the restoration of historical buildings as well as in the construction of new churches, government buildings and municipal buildings.

In 1901 he was promoted to senior building officer and was responsible as a lecturer in the Ministry of Public Works for the department of development plans, building police, police buildings and theaters . Police buildings were built in Stettin (1902), Cologne (1904–1907), Berlin-Charlottenburg (1906–1910, together with his son-in-law Otto Kloeppel ), Berlin-Mitte (1907–1909, together with Paul Graef ), Aachen (1907– 1910) Königsberg (1912/1924), Kassel and Danzig, renovations in the Schauspielhaus (1905) and the opera house in Berlin and the theaters in Kassel and Posen. His personal share in the management, design and construction of the buildings erected in his areas of responsibility cannot be precisely quantified. Around 1908 he was retired as a real secret senior building officer. On a trip to Dresden in 1911 he became terminally ill and died the following year in Berlin. From 1902 to 1905 he was a board member in the architects' association .

literature

  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 57, 58 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Police Inspection Charlottenburg Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  2. ↑ Police service building entry in the Berlin State Monument List
personal data
SURNAME Launer, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Prussian building officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Schildberg , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1912
Place of death Berlin