Otto Kloeppel

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Otto Ferdinand Julius Kloeppel (born October 10, 1873 in Cologne , † January 23, 1942 in Danzig ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

After graduating from St. Thomas School in Leipzig (1892), Kloeppel studied architecture and building art in Charlottenburg , Munich and Karlsruhe . In 1896 he passed the first state examination for government building supervisor ( trainee lawyer ).

He was active in the construction of the police headquarters in Danzig 1902-1905 and was awarded the Order of the Crown, IV class. Then he was employed in the construction of the police station in Charlottenburg from 1906 to 1910 , together with his father-in-law Oskar Launer . In 1912 he was appointed professor of building construction and urban planning at the Technical University of Danzig .

As a captain of the Landwehr he took part in World War I and was used as leader of the 2nd Battalion of the 13th Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 178 . For his services Kloeppel was awarded the Iron Cross II. And I. Class as well as the Knight's Cross First Class of the Albrecht Order and on August 29, 1918 with the Knight's Cross of the Military St. Henry's Order awarded.

After the end of the war he continued his work at the Technical University of Gdansk. He was elected rector for the year 1926/1927 . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

He has designed several Gdańsk building projects independently or as part of a team. a. the Grand Hotel in Sopot and the renovation of the theater building on the Kohlenmarkt.

He headed the Gdansk monument protection authority and prevented the demolition of the historic town houses on Langgasse and the Renaissance city gates: the Niedertor and the Langgarter Tor .

His students carried out the surveying work on Gdansk monuments. 1933–1935 he led the renovation work on the Marienkirche in Gdańsk .

In 1938 he retired.

Fonts

  • Frederician Baroque. 1908.
  • West Prussian Architects and Engineers Association (Hrsg.): Danzig and its buildings. W. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1908. (as co-author)
  • Danzig at the crossroads (1628–1928). Stilke, Danzig 1928.
  • The Marienkirche in Gdansk and the hut secret from the fair stonemason reason. Kafemann, Danzig 1935.
  • The cityscape of Gdansk in three centuries of its great history. Kafemann, Danzig 1937.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List Police Inspection in Charlottenburg
  2. ^ Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 57 .
  3. The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs-Orden 1736-1918, A Ehrenblatt of the Saxon Army , Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch-Stiftung, Dresden 1937, p. 376