Otto Hodler

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Otto Hodler (born April 9, 1901 in Hechingen ; † September 10, 1990 in Hanover ; full name: Otto Franz Sales Hodler ) was a German architect and construction clerk .

Life

The 1930 inaugurated under monument protection standing Amtsgericht Lübben (Spreewald) (2010)
Building erected by the Hanover Public Prosecutor's Office in the 1950s, partly replaced by Storch & Ehlers in the 1980s (2014)
1954 award-winning building of the then Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs ( location ) on Hannah-Arendt-Platz opposite the Leineschloss in Hanover (2014)

Born as the son of Adolf Hodler , the district court advisor , Otto Hodler began studying architecture in 1920 at the Technical University of Munich , where he passed his pre-exam, and continued at the Technical University of Berlin in 1922, where he also worked as a student assistant from 1922 to 1924 Emil Rüster worked and passed the main diploma examination in 1924. Then Hodler began a legal clerkship as a government construction manager for further training for the civil service.

After Otto Hodler had passed the second state examination in 1928 , he worked as a government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration) until 1930, first in Berlin for the Prussian Building and Finance Directorate, then until 1933 in Bonn , from 1933 to 1934 in Bad Bertrich and from 1935 until 1938 in Bad Nenndorf .

From 1938 until the Second World War , Hodler worked in the management of the Hameln State Building Department, and in 1941 he moved to the building construction department of the Prussian Ministry of Finance. In 1944 he worked in Elbing for the Todt Organization . In the same year he did active military service himself , but was then taken prisoner of war , from which he was released in 1945.

Under the British occupation authorities Otto Hodler was able to work again at the Hameln State Building Authority from 1945 to 1946, before he became General Construction Department of the Hanover government in 1946 .

After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany , Otto Hodler was honored with the award of the Laves plaque for the building of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs , which he built in the early years of the economic boom in 1954 and the square he designed . In addition, Hodler received several awards in architectural competitions .

In 1966 Otto Hodler retired . He died in Hanover in 1990.

Buildings and designs

Fonts

  • The new district court building in Lübben . In: Lübbener Kreiskalender 1931. Richter & Munkelt, Lübben o. J. (1930), pp. 67–71. (with pictures of the old and new district court building)

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the construction period 1952–1956 is named for the “district court”, whose original main entrance was oriented towards Hamburger Allee . Between 1983 and 1985 the building was partially replaced by higher new buildings by the architects Storch & Ehlers for the regional court and public prosecutor's office; compare Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Volgersweg 1. In: Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen (ed.): Hannover. Art and culture lexicon . 4th, updated and expanded edition, on Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 210.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stefan Amt : The planning and construction history of the two Holy Spirit churches in Hanover-Bothfeld. In: Catholic Church and Catholic Community in Bothfeld in the Middle Ages and Modern Times. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Holy Spirit Church in Hanover-Bothfeld. Bernward-Mediengesellschaft, Hildesheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-89366-569-3 , pp. 133–198, here: p. 170. ( online as a PDF document at bhb-hannover.de )
personal data
SURNAME Hodler, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hodler, Otto Franz Sales (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Hechingen
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1990
Place of death Hanover