Otto Krafft (engineer)

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Otto Krafft (born April 22, 1879 in Wetzlar , † December 19, 1916 in Zurich ) was a German civil engineer and municipal building officer .

Life

Memorial stone in Hamm

Otto Krafft was born on April 22nd, 1879 in Wetzlar as the son of the factory owner Christian Krafft and his wife, née Meyer. He attended the Protestant preschool and high school in Wetzlar and completed his schooling in 1898 at the secondary school in casting . Otto Krafft studied civil engineering and specialized in the field of railway construction. In 1903 he became a member of the Architects' Association in Berlin and in March 1904 received the Schinkel plaque (also known as Schinkeldenk coin ) for his "design for the four-track expansion of the Vohwinkel – Elberfeld line". After his legal clerkship in the Prussian railway administration and passing the state examination, Krafft was appointed government builder ( assessor in the public building administration) in February 1906 .

In the same year he came to the municipal building administration of the city of Hamm . At the beginning of 1907 he finally resigned from the Prussian civil service and shortly afterwards he was elected to the town planning authority in Hamm. In this function, he played a key role in the reallocation of the Ahse from downtown Hammer (1911–1913) and had the areas obtained in this way redesigned into a green area. In addition, as a representative of the city administration, he was involved in state building projects such as the redesign of the railway systems and the connection of Hamm to the waterway network (Lippe-Seiten Canal, construction of the port).

The fact that he was consulted as an expert outside of Hamm speaks for his professional reputation. B. 1915/1916 as a (honorary) judge in the architecture competition “for preliminary drafts for a development plan for the area outside the wall surrounding the city of Soest” .

Fonts

  • The demands of urban development for railway systems. In: Der Städtebau , 10th year 1913, issue 3, pp. 31–34 u. Issue 4, pp. 41–43 (printed version of a lecture given at the Congress for Urban Affairs in Düsseldorf ).

literature

  • Karl Wulf: Hamm. City between Lippe and Ahse. Historical review from the beginnings to around 1930. City of Hamm, Hamm 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 24, 1904, No. 19 (from March 5, 1904), p. 123.
  2. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 26, 1906, No. 17 (of February 24, 1906), p. 109.
  3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 27, 1907, No. 5 (from January 12, 1907), p. 31.
  4. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 35th year 1915, No. 94 (from November 24, 1915), p. 624.
personal data
SURNAME Krafft, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and municipal building officer (city building councilor in Hamm)
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1916
Place of death Zurich