Otto Rehnig

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Otto Rehnig (born September 3, 1864 in Hohenleuben , † October 29, 1925 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

Life

Otto Rehnig was married to Antonie Urtel. The marriage had six children:

  1. Otto Rehnig jun. (* February 14, 1894; † 1945 killed in World War II), architect in Berlin and Posen
  2. Arno Rehnig (born October 28, 1895, † October 2, 1917 killed in World War I), architecture student in Berlin
  3. Margarethe Simlinger (born November 5, 1897 - † December 11, 1980 in Vienna)
  4. Alfred Rehnig (born May 27, 1903; † August 9, 1991)
  5. Marie Rehnig (born August 28, 1905 - † March 11, 1993)
  6. Emmy Wolfbauer (* July 20, 1909; † June 30, 2001)

Otto Rehnig studied at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . In addition to his studies, he worked as an architect for the construction of the Berlin Cathedral from June 15, 1890 to April 1893 (first draft 1890, execution draft 1891) from April 1893 to the completion of the cathedral as head of department I for the artistic execution of Professor Julius Carl Raschdorff busy.

On February 25, 1905, "His Majesty" deigned to award the "Royal Order of the Crown, fourth class" to Otto Rehnig.

Later, like several other well-known architects, he was employed by the large construction company Boswau & Knauer (GmbH, then AG) with his own office, whereby the company - one of the best-known market leaders at the time, later merged into the construction group "Walter-Thosti-Boswau" (WTB) - as a general contractor , was able to offer both planning and construction from a single source.

Otto Rehnig ran an architecture studio in Berlin, Bamberger Straße 33 and Innsbrucker Straße 7.

plant

Villa von Kleist Berliner Strasse 130, Potsdam

Otto Rehnig designed several important hotel buildings, factory buildings, office, administrative and commercial buildings, as well as villas and other residential buildings.

The most famous buildings based on plans by Rehnig are:

  • Grand Hôtel Esplanade , Berlin, Bellevuestrasse 16–18a (Potsdamer Platz), five-storey building, built 1907–1909 in the neo-baroque / neo-rococo style, grand opening on November 30, 1908, construction carried out by Boswau & Knauer , 1911–1912 enlarged (also according to plans (of Rehnig) by a new building in the style of modernism on a neighboring property Anhalterstraße) obtained in ruins after war damage, fragments of wall, imperial hall and breakfast room 1996 translocated today Bellevuestraße 1 ( Sony Center )
  • Hotel Excelsior , Berlin, built 1907–1912 in neo-baroque style, also by Boswau & Knauer , grand opening on April 2, 1908, later expanded according to plans by Rehnig
  • Factory building, Berlin-Neukölln , Sonnenallee 223, built in 1916

The buildings mentioned are now a listed building .

Rehnig also designed the renovation of the von Kleist villa in Potsdam in 1911 and the classical Hohenfels Palace in Coburg at the beginning of the 1920s.

List of works

The four-page list of works compiled by Rehnig himself (which is reproduced below in four image files) contains:

  • 13 hotels,
  • 22 factory buildings, office and commercial buildings,
  • 15 villas, residential and administrative buildings,
  • various theaters,
  • the hospital in Berlin-Weißensee ,
  • a development plan for Genthin ,
  • 12 award-winning competition designs (including the one that was awarded a purchase but was not executed for the Evangelical St. Luke Church in Chemnitz from 1898).

  • List of works page 1

  • List of works page 2

  • List of works page 3

  • List of works page 4

Remains of the Grand Hotel "Esplanade"

  • Facade fragment

  • Fragment of the breakfast room

  • Fragment of the Imperial Hall

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  2. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung, Volume 32, 1898, No. 24 (from March 23, 1898), p. 156.
personal data
SURNAME Rehnig, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenleuben
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1925
Place of death Berlin