Otto Firle

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Otto Firle (born October 14, 1889 in Bonn , † July 4, 1966 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect and graphic designer .

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Otto Firle studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich .

1918 designed Firle, who was a pilot in World War I, which later than Lufthansa - crane logo has become known worldwide logo for the German air shipping company , a forerunner of Lufthansa . The first emblem of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, founded in 1920, and the similar emblem of the Deutsche Reichspost also came from Firle. Three postage stamps issued by the Deutsche Reichspost in 1925 were designed by Firle.

Nordstern insurance administration building

One of Firle's most famous buildings is the administration building of Nordstern Insurance on Fehrbelliner Platz in Berlin . The building was created as part of the redesign of Berlin by Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer . It wore facade decorations by Arno Breker and Waldemar Raemisch . It is one of the few buildings to have survived from these redesign plans.

From 1946 to 1949 Firle was a professor at the Technical University of Berlin ; since 1950 he worked as a freelance architect in Düsseldorf.

Otto Firle died in Düsseldorf in 1966 at the age of 76. His grave is in the Dahlem cemetery in Berlin.

Parts of his professional estate are in the architecture museum of the Technical University of Berlin .

Buildings and designs

Europahaus (left part), photo 1936
  • 1913–1914: Landhaus Dingler in Munich- Solln
  • Aviator memorial in Habsheim near Mühlhausen (Alsace)
  • 1920: Seeligsohn's hereditary burial, Schönhauser Allee cemetery, Berlin
  • 1923–1924: Bankhaus Laband, Stiehl & Co. in Berlin-Charlottenburg (destroyed)
  • 1923–1924: Adding storeys to a building with the so-called "Landhaus auf dem Dach" for OM in Berlin-Charlottenburg , Budapester Strasse 9 (destroyed)
  • 1924: Design for a commercial building on Askanischer Platz in Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 1924: Competition design for the development of the Prince Albrecht Gardens in Berlin
  • 1924: Firle house in Berlin-Lichterfelde , Potsdamer Strasse 20A
  • 1925: Landhaus Dr. Petz in Berlin-Nikolassee
  • 1925: Country house for the clothing manufacturers Isidor and Philipp Cohn in Berlin-Grunewald , Hubertusbader Strasse 22–24
  • 1926: Residence for Dr. Adolf Herzfeld in Hanover
  • 1927–1928: Parish hall of the St. Laurentius parish in Berlin-Köpenick , Am Generalshof
  • 1927: Design for the church of the St. Laurentius congregation in Berlin-Köpenick
  • 1927: Renovation of the FV Grünfeld fashion house in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Kurfürstendamm / Joachimsthaler Straße (destroyed)
  • 1928: Wellnitz country house in Berlin-Lichterfelde
  • 1929–1932: Multi-family housing development in Berlin-Dahlem, Breitenbachplatz 10–18 (with Ferdinand Radzig)
  • 1930: Sethehof for the Sethe Jewish diplomatic family in Kloster ( Hiddensee Island )
  • 1931: " Europahaus " office and commercial building in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Stresemannstrasse 90 (as a high-rise extension to the "Deutschlandhaus"; changed)
  • 1933: House for cellist Max Baldner, so-called " Klenderhof ", in Kampen ( Sylt Island )
  • 1935–1936: Design for the administration building of the Reichsnährstand in Goslar
  • 1935–1936: Nordstern insurance headquarters in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Fehrbelliner Platz  2
  • 1935: country house for Hermann Göring on the Darss (destroyed by fire in 1954)
  • 1938–1939: Housing development in Berlin-Schmargendorf , Hohenzollerndamm 78–80
  • 1938–1939: Villa Ehrich residential development with Otto Ehrich in Kulosaari , Finland
  • 1954–1955: Bank building for the Dresdner Bank (Rhein-Ruhr-Bank) in Düsseldorf (changed)
  • 1954: New building / extension of the Comenius School in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel , corner of Comeniusstrasse 1 and Quirinstrasse
  • 1957: Competition design for the Philharmonie in Goslar
  • 1957: Old Catholic St. Cyprian Church in Bonn

literature

  • Max Osborn: New work by Otto Firle . In: Interior Decoration, Vol. 40, 1929, pp. 262–294 ( digitized version ).
  • Firle, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 110 .
  • Christian Welzbacher: Firle, Otto. In: General Artist Lexicon . (...)
  • Matthias Donath: Architecture in Berlin 1933–1945. A city guide. Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-93687226-0 .
  • Gabriele Goettle: abandoned property. In: Deutsche Bräuche, pp. 270–286. Eichborn Verlag Frankfurt / Main 1994, ISBN 3-8218-4442-6 .

Web links

Commons : Otto Firle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 568.
  2. ^ Holdings on Otto Firle at the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
  3. ↑ Elisabath M. Hajos / Leopold Zahn: Berlin architecture of the post-war period, Berlin: Albertus 1928, p. 113.
  4. ↑ Fig. In: Elisabath M. Hajos / Leopold Zahn: Berliner Architektur der Nachkriegszeit, Berlin: Albertus 1928, p. 47, p. 128.
  5. ↑ M. Osborn: The country house on the roof . In: Interior Decoration, 1924, pp. 192–226 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture , issue 7/1924.
  7. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  8. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  9. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  10. ↑ Fig. In: Elisabath M. Hajos / Leopold Zahn: Berliner Architektur der Nachkriegszeit, Berlin: Albertus 1928, p. 78.
  11. ^ Elisabeth M. Hajos, Leopold Zahn: Berlin architecture of the post-war period. Albertus Verlag, Berlin 1928, p. 12ff.
  12. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  13. ↑ https://www.jp3.de/pdf/2002_Dagmar-Jaeger_Kontextforschung_Hausbiografien-auf-Hiddensee_Zwischen-regionalem-Bauen-und-Moderne.pdf
  14. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  15. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  16. ↑ Nordstern Insurance
  17. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
personal data
SURNAME Firle, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1966
Place of death Dusseldorf