Otto Scheib

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Otto Scheib (1913)

Otto Scheib (born February 18, 1893 in Cologne ; † March 13, 1965 there ) was a German architect and urban planner .

Life

Scheib first studied at the Technical University of Munich . On April 21, 1912 he became a fox in the Corps Suevia Munich . He was born on Nov. 22, 1912 recipiert and on August 5, 1914 - four days after Germany's entry into the First World War - disabled . With the cuirassier regiment "Graf Gessler" (Rheinisches) No. 8 he fought in the battles of Flanders and in the battles of Isonzo . When Cologne became a university town again after the war ( University of Cologne ), he helped with the reconstitution of the Friso-Luneburgia . Out of gratitude, she awarded him the ribbon in 1920. He continued his studies at the Technical University of Aachen and obtained the academic degree of graduate engineer . In 1921 he passed the state examination and was appointed government master builder, ie assessor in the public building administration. However, he decided against a further career as a construction clerk and from 1924 worked as a freelance architect in Cologne. In Oberhausen he built the Ruhrwachthaus in 1928 and the adjoining department store for Leonhard Tietz AG (today Bert-Brecht-Haus (Oberhausen) ), a highly regarded ensemble of brick expressionism in the Ruhr area . As an urban planner, he was important for Cologne: The connection between the right and left halves of the Rhine, parks, "social" housing and the Naumannsiedlung in Riehl (Cologne) were his concerns. He created industrial buildings for the Eschweiler Mining Association , residential buildings, schools and the district war memorial from 1914-18 on Fort I in today's Friedenspark (Cologne) in Cologne.

Scheib was married to Irma born in 1934. Ludwigs. With her he had two sons, the church historian Otto Scheib and the legal advisor Peter Scheib (CDU) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 114/1393; 79/99.
  2. ↑ a b Hasso Weicke: Otto Scheib . Die Trausnitz, Corpszeitung der Suevia München, No. 1/1967, pp. 3–5
personal data
SURNAME Scheib, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1965
Place of death Cologne