Otto March

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Otto March

Otto March (born October 7, 1845 in Charlottenburg ; † April 1, 1913 there ) was a German architect.

Life

Otto March was the son of the pottery manufacturer Ernst March , who was known in 19th century Berlin for his ceramic architectural jewelry. He studied at the Berlin Academy of Architecture and later in Vienna architecture . Heinrich Strack and Heinrich von Ferstel were among his teachers . In 1878 he passed the 2nd state examination to become a government architect. In 1888, on a trip to England, he gained important impressions of the English country house architecture, which is regarded as progressive, and which significantly influenced his further work. On October 30, 1889, he married Anna Maria Vorster (* 1863), the daughter of the wealthy Cologne chemical industrialist Julius Vorster ; As a result, he received numerous orders in the Rhineland , such as the two-story grandstand he planned in 1897 for the horse racing track in Weidenpescher Park in Cologne . Also in 1897 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . From 1907 he sat in the committee for Greater Berlin . Numerous residential and commercial buildings, upper-class country houses and Protestant churches in Berlin and throughout Germany were built according to March's designs. As director of the Landhaus-Baugesellschaft Pankow , he was also a real estate entrepreneur.

His sons Werner March (1894-1976) and Walter March (1898-1969) (under William Van Alen he worked 1928-1930 on the construction of the Chrysler Building ) were also architects, they were later responsible for the construction of the German Sports Forum , the Olympic The village and the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Otto March's nephew Werner Hegemann was the editor of the magazine Städtebau and an influential architecture critic of the Weimar Republic.

Honors

Buildings and designs

Memorial plaque at the Olympic Stadium

Undated:

  • Villas at Ahornallee 13 and Ahornallee 44–45 in Berlin
  • Commercial building Leipziger Strasse 7/8 in Berlin-Mitte
  • Commercial building of the W. Schimmelpfeng credit agency in Berlin-Mitte, Charlottenstrasse 23
  • Office and commercial building Zur Mauerkrone , Leipziger Strasse (Berlin) 19 / Mauerstrasse

  • Villa Kolbe in Radebeul

  • Mountain Church Osnabrück

  • Ev. Church in Oberkassel

  • Christ Church in Cologne-Dellbrück

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honor , in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 54, January 27, 1912, p. 9, accessed on December 21, 2012
  2. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  3. ^ A b Helmut Engel , Peter-Alexis Albrecht, Gerhard Wolf, Christa Wolf: Masterpieces of Berlin Architecture. The Amalienpark in Pankow and its architect Otto March. Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-8305-1351-8 .
  4. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
  5. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
  6. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
  7. ^ House on Canalstrasse in Düsseldorf , in Blätter für Architektur und Kunsthandwerk (No. 8), dated August 1, 1895
  8. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
  9. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
  10. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  11. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  12. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  13. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  14. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  15. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  16. ↑ Heinenhof
  17. ↑ See Fig. 1 in: Werner Hegemann : Turmhaus am Reichstag ?! In: Städtebau , XXV. Volume (Editor: Werner Hegemann) ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.0 MB), p. 97 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 130.73.102.69
  18. ^ Uwe Kieling: Berlin, Buildings and Builders. Quintessenz, Berlin 2003, pp. 307–308
personal data
SURNAME March, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1913
Place of death Charlottenburg