Otto Freese

Otto Freese (* 1927 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † 2009 in Celle ) was a German architect and construction clerk , most recently head of the building construction department in Hamburg , and an artist in Celle.

biography

Freese grew up in Karlsruhe, Dresden and Berlin. He had to serve as a soldier at the end of the Second World War and was taken prisoner of war . He obtained his Abitur in Berlin and then moved to Oldenburg in 1946 . From 1947 to 1951 he studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . He received his first painting training while studying architecture in Karlsruhe with Karl Hubbuch and Erwin Spuler . After graduating from 1951 to 1954, he completed a legal clerkship and his government building master’s exam in Karlsruhe. Since 1955 he worked as a freelance architect in Wiesbaden and Cologne.

Campus of the University of Bremen

TUHH campus

From 1958 to 1965 he worked at the Baden-Württemberg University Building Department I for buildings at the University of Freiburg , most recently as building director and office manager. Here he realized humanities and scientific buildings.

In 1965, Freese was appointed head of the Bremen University Building Authority (UBA) as chief building director . Under his leadership, the first buildings (GW 1 and 2, NW 1 and 2, University Library Bremen (UB), central area (ZB), cafeteria, central multi-purpose high-rise (MZH), sports buildings) of the University of Bremen have been built since 1968 .

In 1976 he was appointed Head of the Building Construction Office in Hamburg as the first senior building director . During his time, numerous buildings in Hamburg a. a. since 1978 the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH). Freese said: "The Technical University of Harburg is growing into a real city university, and I'm proud of that." He feels that his choice of the site is "extremely confirmed", "because the students don't feel isolated there". In 1988 he retired.

Freese then worked as a painter in Celle.

Fonts

• The construction task. University of Bremen. (published by the University Building Authority) Bremen 1966.
• Thoughts on university building planning. Schünemann, Bremen 1968.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Edith Lund: The man who built for Hamburg . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from September 2, 1988
2. ↑ artfolio: Otto Freese ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .