Otto Leitholf
Otto Leitholf (* 1860 ; † 1939 ) was a German civil engineer .
Live and act
Leitholf had an engineering office in Berlin. At the beginning of the 20th century he was responsible for the statics and structure of a large number of steel-framed buildings in Berlin (like his teacher Richard Cramer before ).
His buildings include the Pergamon Museum in Berlin (in collaboration with the architect Wilhelm Wille ), the airship hall in Biesdorf-Süd (in collaboration with the mechanical engineer Karl Janisch ) and the Nordsternhaus . He was also a structural engineer for the Vaterland house (1911/1912) and for the AEG turbine factory extension A, built in 1914 in Moabit on Huttenstrasse, whose architect was Peter Behrens .
Fonts
- Iron constructions in the new city theater in Kiel. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 43rd year 1909, pp. 93–98, pp. 101–103, pp. 125–130.
- High-rise buildings without iron frames. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 41st year 1921, No. 35 (from April 30, 1921), pp. 219–220.
literature
- Ines Prokop: Steel construction, supporting structures and their protagonists in Berlin 1850–1925. Mensch und Buch Verlag, 2012.
Web links
- Ines Prokop: From iron construction to steel construction. Richard Cramer, Otto Leitholf, Gerhard Mensch. (Lectures, German Museum of Technology, March 2018), momentum magazin (with photo)
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Wittendorfer: the hall. Airships between Biesdorf and Karlshorst. Kulturring in Berlin eV, Berlin 2007, p. 23.
- ↑ Sub-property "Extension A" of the AEG in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ Originated from her dissertation Iron Structures in Berlin 1850–1925. Influence of material on structures (2011), update of the study of steel construction in Berlin and Potsdam by Werner Lorenz until 1850
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leitholf, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1860 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1939 |