Otto Linde (architect)

Otto Linde (born October 7, 1871 in Calau , † April 21, 1958 in Ebersteinburg ) was a German architect , Baden construction officer and monument conservator .

Life

Plan of the former Mühlburg Castle

Linde studied from 1891 with Carl Schäfer at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . In 1898 he entered the service of the Baden building management. In 1901 a scholarship enabled him to travel to Italy, Sicily and Tunis for a year.

From 1904 he worked on the inventory work of the architectural and art monuments of Baden, to which he also contributed many drawings as illustrations. From 1905 to 1907 he led the restoration of the Zum Ritter inn in Heidelberg and the reconstruction of castles and monastery ruins. In 1911 he was appointed deputy curator of public monuments in Baden, chief building officer Philipp Kircher (1846–1921). From 1919 he worked part-time as head of court construction for the abdicated Grand Duke of Baden. From 1934 to 1939 Linde was managing director of the Badisches Landesdenkmalamt.

The Protestant churches in Engen and Forbach as well as several villas in Baden-Baden, Freiburg im Breisgau and Mannheim were built according to designs by Otto Linde . At Eberstein Castle near Gernsbach in 1951 he had the structure of the keep built today .

On October 20, 1902, he married Margaret (Grete) Hager, the daughter of the manufacturer Eduard Hager . The children Horst (1912–2016) and Wilfried Linde emerged from the marriage.

Honors

1948: Honorary citizen of the Technical University of Karlsruhe
1952: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

Linde, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 214 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Wolfgang Stopfel: History of the Baden monument preservation and its offices in Karlsruhe, Strasbourg and Freiburg. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg 32nd year 2003, issue 3, p. 208.
^ Rainer Laun: The Grand Ducal Conservator in Baden and the Königsbach Town Hall. Exemplary monument preservation at the beginning of the 20th century. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. 36th year 2007, issue 2, p. 99.

personal data
SURNAME	Linde, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect, Baden construction officer and preservationist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 7, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Calau
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1958
Place of death	Ebersteinburg

[Stopfel-1] Wolfgang Stopfel: History of the Baden monument preservation and its offices in Karlsruhe, Strasbourg and Freiburg. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg 32nd year 2003, issue 3, p. 208.

[2] Rainer Laun: The Grand Ducal Conservator in Baden and the Königsbach Town Hall. Exemplary monument preservation at the beginning of the 20th century. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. 36th year 2007, issue 2, p. 99.