Otto Kuhlmann

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Otto Kuhlmann (born April 22, 1873 in Detmold ; † September 8, 1948 there ) was a German architect .

Life

Otto Kuhlmann was born in Detmold in 1873 as the son of the master carpenter August Kuhlmann and grew up in a middle-class family, he attended a grammar school. His parents both died before he was of legal age.

After a practical construction apprenticeship, Kuhlmann attended the building trade school in Höxter , followed by studies at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg, where his teachers included Carl Schäfer , Johannes Vollmer , Hermann Ende and Christoph Hehl . He found his first job in 1897 at the building authority of the city of Berlin under city building officer Ludwig Hoffmann . At the age of 27, he settled as a freelance architect in (Berlin-) Charlottenburg, address Kantstrasse 142. Kuhlmann was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA), he received the Grand State Prize of the Academy of the Arts in 1903 , and in 1918 the honorary title of Privy Court Building Councilor and advertised as a professor. In 1908 he was accepted into the Detmold Masonic Lodge Zur Rose in the Teutoburg Forest and later joined the Berlin Masonic Lodge Zur Konstanz .

Buildings (selection)

Kuhlmann designed and built villas, rental and commercial buildings, factories, schools, town halls and administrative buildings, agricultural buildings, hospitals and theaters, e.g. B .:

  • 1900–1901: Town hall in Essen -Rüttenscheid, Rüttenscheider Straße (destroyed)
  • 1902–1908: Reform, Reformreal and girls' high school in Essen-Rüttenscheid, Alfredstrasse 28 (destroyed)
  • 1905–1908: Evangelical Reformed Christ Church with a princely crypt in Detmold
  • 1905–1908: Evangelical Lutheran Luther Church in Chemnitz , Zschopauer Strasse
  • 1907–1908: Protestant church in Münster am Stein
  • 1907–1908: Protestant church in Prerau (Moravia)
  • 1908–1909: Protestant church in Raudnitz (Bohemia)
  • 1908–1909: Protestant church in Fürstenfeld (Styria)
  • 1911–1912: Community school in Berlin-Britz , Britzer Damm 164–170
  • 1911–1913: Protestant parish hall in Neunkirchen (Saar) (changed, listed )
  • 1913: Monument to Karl Alexander Freiherr von Blomberg (1788–1813) in Berlin-Friedrichshain, in the green area in front of the Bartholomäus Church
  • 1913–1914: Protestant Johanneskirche in Berlin-Lichterfelde , Johanneskirchplatz 4
  • 1913–1914: Protestant Kreuzkirche in Graz
  • 1914–1917: Protestant church in the Johannesstift in Berlin-Spandau
  • 1914–1920: Protestant church for the Czech community in Olomouc (Moravia)
  • 1923–1925: Boys and girls' school in Biesenthal, Bahnhofstrasse 9–12
  • 1924: Elementary and middle school in Prenzlau
  • 1926–1927: Upper secondary school in Eberswalde

such as

  • Protestant parish hall in Münster am Stein
  • Town hall in Erkner

Most of the preserved buildings are now under monument protection .

literature

Web links

Commons : Otto Kuhlmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grand State Prize. March 11, 1903: Prize winner Otto Kuhlmann. In: Prussische Akademie der Künste (PrAdK 0726, archiv.adk.de ).
  2. ↑ Otto Kuhlmann, Professor Geh. Court building officer . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1922, II, p. 11.
  3. ↑ The architectural and art monuments in the GDR, capital Berlin I. Berlin 1984, p. 441.
  4. ↑ Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (Ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany : Architectural monuments in Berlin, Friedrichshain district. Berlin 1996, p. 89 with ill. 109.
  5. ↑ Biesenthaler Anzeiger 07/2010 (from July 27, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Kuhlmann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1948
Place of death Detmold