Otto Ferdinand Lorenz

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Otto Ferdinand Lorenz (born April 17, 1838 in Koenigsberg ; † January 15, 1896 in Berlin ) was a German architect and Prussian building officer .

Life

Lorenz received his upbringing from his technically educated uncle after his parents died early. He spent his time in Königsberg with the building inspector Hecker and Arndt. He attended the building academy and passed the building management exam in 1860. He then worked practically on church buildings in Bockow / Großkrentz, Wetzow / Nauen and Fehrbellin- Feldberg as well as on the renovation of the statistical office in Lindenstrasse in Berlin.

In 1866 he passed the master builder examination and was in the civil service in Berlin until 1872 and in 1872/73 he was a master builder with the government in Liegnitz . In 1873 he became building inspector at the ministerial building commission, in 1884 government and building advisor to the government in Potsdam and in 1888 he came to the Ministry of Public Works as a secret building advisor and lecturer for the university buildings department.

On October 7, 1889, he became a member of the Academy of Civil Engineering , in 1893 a secret senior building officer and on July 31, 1895, senior building director. He was co-editor of the Bauwesen magazine .

Otto Ferdinand Lorenz died in Berlin in 1896 at the age of 57 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . His gravestone bears a portrait medallion created by the sculptor Otto Gradler.

buildings

literature

  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century. Berlin 1986, p. 61f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 305.