Otto Lemke

Otto Lemke (born September 5 or September 15, 1877 in Parlin , district of Naugard ; † April 16, 1945 in Berlin-Hermsdorf ; full name: Otto Bernhard William Lemke ) was a German architect and municipal building officer .

Life

Lemke, who originally came from Pomerania , took up his post as town architect in Eilenburg on March 1, 1904 . During this time, the city had high tax revenues due to the pronounced industrial structure. The prosperity was reflected in the expansion of the city in the area southeast of the old town. The Eilenburg magistrate entrusted Lemke with the planning and construction of numerous buildings. Lemke also benefited from the friendship with the then mayor of Eilenburg, Alfred Belian . Various representative monumental buildings, some of which can be attributed to Art Nouveau , were built in Eilenburg according to Lemke's plans . In 1915 he received the Royal Order of the Crown, IV class. Lemke, who was later appointed city planning officer, was also a member of the Eilenburg magistrate around 1927. When the National Socialists came to power and Alfred Belian was expelled, he too left Eilenburg. Otto Lemke died on April 16, 1945 in Berlin-Hermsdorf.

Most of Lemke's buildings, which were built for public institutions, survived the Second World War, in contrast to the old town, largely unscathed; the majority of its buildings are now listed .

buildings

image	institution	address	Year of construction (s)	Monument protection	Remarks
	Realgymnasium	Dr.-Külz-Ring 9	1904-1906	Yes	until 2012 high school , today adult education center
	Citizens' asylum "Röberstift"	Samuelisdamm 10	1907	Yes	later city archives, today residential building
	Mourning hall at the Eilenburg-Ost municipal cemetery	Sprottaer Landstrasse	1907	Yes
	Royal Teachers' College	Gustav-Raute-Strasse 1	1909-1911	Yes	later high school, now elementary school
	Infantry barracks	Dr.-Belian-Strasse 1-4	1913-1916	Yes	Used by the military until 1991, today it is an educational and administrative center
	Water tower of the German Celluloid Factory	Ziegelstrasse	1915-1916	Yes	Intze design , carried out by Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG , architectural design by Otto Lemke, later alcohol , now extinguishing water storage
	Officers' mess	Röberstrasse 14	1916	Yes	From 1933 municipal savings bank, today AWO Meeting Center
	Mayor's House	Am Anger 29	1916	Yes	builds a rental villa with funds from a donation from the mill owner Wilhelm Grune
	Hospital with morgue	Goethestrasse 16	1917	No	later district polyclinic , today medical center

literature

• Otto Bernhard William Lemke. In: Wolfgang Beuche: The personalities of Eilenburg. Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-2922-2 .
• Andreas Flegel: Eilenburg in old views. European Library, Zaltbommel (Netherlands) 1998, ISBN 90-288-6534-9 . (Images of buildings)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Beuche: The personalities of Eilenburg. ... (see literature )
2. ↑ private genealogy page
3. ↑ City history on www.eilenburg.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Tabular list of buildings carried out by Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG on the website of the Industriekultur magazine , last accessed on February 18, 2017