Otto Roth (architect)

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Otto Roth (* 1904 ; † 1994 ) was a German architect . He realized numerous buildings in his own planning and in collaboration with colleagues such as Werner Eichberg , Josef Wiedemann , Immanuel Kroeker and Karl Kergl .

Live and act

Otto Roth was a staunch opponent of National Socialism and as such was involved in the hiding of persecuted Jews. Against the express prohibition of the Gauleitung , he took care of the maintenance of the Asamkirche in Munich, which was endangered by bomb damage . After the Second World War he was active in the professional association of architects and civil engineers. He also acted as a juror for tenders and architectural competitions.

building

The Biederstein dormitory

As important work that applies dorm Biederstein , a student residence, which as an important testimony of the early post-war architecture under monument stands. When Uschi Obermaier lived here, the home became the nucleus of the student unrest of the 1968 movement in Munich. One of the sensational buildings by Roth was a project at what is now the Technical University of Munich : “A U-shaped, low lecture hall wing (Werner Eichberg / Otto Roth), which, however, could only be realized in the 1960s, connects the north site via two closed bridges with the main site. "

Restorations

The Parcus House restored by Otto Roth

After the war, monuments destroyed by bombs were a particular concern of Roth. The five-storey Parcus-Haus , a listed residential and commercial building in the neo-renaissance style at Promenadeplatz 12 (formerly 16) in Munich was reconstructed by Otto Roth from 1948 to 1950 after being severely damaged during the Second World War . For the Munich Siegestor “the demolition of the ruin was already a done deal in 1945. However, the demolition could be deflected by appropriate safety measures. In 1956, the city council commissioned the architects Otto Roth and Josef Wiedemann to carry out the repairs. ”Roth made sure that the Siegestor“ did not damage the weather ”.

Architectural work (selection)

  • 1939: Country house of a doctor in Memmingen, which "fully achieves the symbiosis of two personalities."
  • 1948–1950: Reconstruction of the Parcus House in Munich's old town
  • 1951–1955: Munich-Biederstein student residence (with Harald Roth )
  • 1952–1953: Administration building of the civil engineering trade association in Munich (with Werner Eichberg)
  • 1954–1956: Memmingen Hospital (with Werner Eichberg)
  • 1955: Kastner & Callwey printing works in Munich (with Werner Eichberg)
  • 1955: American School in Munich (with Karl Loibl, Hans A. Endres, Immanuel Kroeker and Karl Kergl )
  • 1955–1957: Füssen Hospital (with Werner Eichberg)
  • 1956–1958: Reconstruction of the Siegestor in Munich (with Josef Wiedemann )
  • 1958–1963: Bavarian Radio studio building in Munich (with Werner Eichberg and Josef Wiedemann)
  • 1965: Callwey publishing house in Munich (with Werner Eichberg)
  • 1964–1967: Institute wing of the Technical University of Munich on Theresienstraße (with Werner Eichberg)

Publications (selection)

  • “Inlay of a cupboard.” In: Architecture and Living. Year 1930, p. 478
  • “House on a slope.” Horticulture in the Reich: A monthly with pictures for garden and flower lovers, lovers and experts, Volume 20, 1939, p. 237
  • “Reconstruction of a residential building on Kaulbachstrasse. in Munich. “In: Baumeister 7/1950

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Israel Gutman , Daniel Fraenkel, Jacob Borut: Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians. Volume 1. Wallstein Verlag 2005 ISBN 9783892449003 , p. 240
  2. ↑ Erwin Schleich: The Asam Church in Munich: a contribution to the restoration 1977. Verlag JF Steinkopf, 1977 ( ISBN 9783798403482 ), p. 6
  3. ↑ Jeffry M. Diefendorf: In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II. Oxford University Press 1993
  4. ^ Architecture competitions, issues 35–37 (1963), p. 91
  5. ↑ Julia Häglsperger: Biedersteiner on the barricades. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 11, 2008
  6. ↑ Ilka Backmeister-Collacott: Luisenstraße 37a. Institute for Technical Physics of the TH - "Reaktorhalle" - University of Music and Theater. Munich 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-86520-338-0 ), p. 12
  7. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Architectural Monuments in Munich , file number D-1-62-000-5618 (PDF).
  8. ^ Roland Porzelt: The provisional solution for the reconstruction of monuments after 1945 in Bavaria. Considerations on the definition and the preservation of monuments. University of Bamberg, as of April 17, 2013
  9. ↑ “Three and a half horses.” In: Der Spiegel 46/1956, p. 62
  10. ^ Art and the beautiful home, Volume 80 (1939), p. 76
  11. ↑ a b c Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Architectural Monuments in Munich , file numbers D-1-62-000-4120, D-1-62-000-5618, D-1-62-000-7888 (PDF).
  12. ^ Bavarian Association of Architects and Engineers: Munich and its buildings after 1912. Bruckmann 1984 ( ISBN 9783765419157 ), p. 369
  13. ↑ [Karl Loibl, Hans A. Endres, Otto Roth, Immanuel Kroeker and Carl Kergl, http://www.kunstmarkt.com/pages/mag/marktberichte_grossbildansicht.html?berichtid=79217&bildid=79224&bk=013_16 American School Munich 1955, view of the stairwell]
  14. ↑ Winfried Nerdinger , Inez Florschütz: Architecture of the child prodigies: Awakening and displacement in Bavaria 1945–1960, Salzburg and Munich 2005 (3-7025-0505-9), p. 364
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1904
DATE OF DEATH 1994