Otto Greiß

Otto Greiß (born October 30, 1876 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 4, 1945 in Mönchengladbach ) was a German architect and construction clerk .

Water tower in Mönchengladbach, built by Otto Greiß

Otto Greiß was the son of the Frankfurt architectural draftsman Gustav Greiß (1825–1896), his older brother was the architect Eugen Greiß (1856–1925). He studied in Berlin up to the preliminary examination from 1895 to 1897, then at the TH Stuttgart and the TH Darmstadt , where he passed the 1st main examination in construction in 1901. After military service in 1901/02, he entered the Hessian civil service and in 1905 passed the 2nd main examination. First, in Mainz and Hamburg operates, he was from 1907 to 1923 city building in Monchengladbach, from 1911 also Councilor of the city. In this role he was responsible for the planning and execution of numerous urban buildings, including 1907 to 1909 for the water tower .

In 1927 he founded a studio for architecture, spatial art, town planning and building consultancy with offices in Mönchengladbach and Wanne-Eickel , so around 1927 the Ferdinand Wulf house was built with Ferdinand Revermann in Eickel , Reichsstraße 28 . After the war he was once again briefly a town planning officer in Mönchengladbach, but an urban development plan he had begun remained unfinished because of his death.

literature

• Dankmar Trier: Greiß, Otto . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 61, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23028-8 , p. 423 f.