Otto Strohmayr

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Otto Strohmayr - also: Otto Strohmay e r - (* July 21, 1900 in Hallein ; † April 25, 1945 there ) was an Austrian architect .

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In the 1920s he was trained by Peter Behrens and Clemens Holzmeister at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna; he was also a student of Emil Fahrenkamp at the Düsseldorf Academy .

He then returned to his homeland in order to assert himself as an independent architect in Salzburg . He worked here from 1931 .

In 1931 he expanded the parish church in Seeham .

1938 - 1942 he worked for the Austrian settlement company.

During the Nazi era , he was promoted to the highest group of architects in the Third Reich around Albert Speer . He participated in the conversion of Kleßheim Palace into the “ Führer’s Guest House ”. In 1941 he and his office colleague Otto Reitter were commissioned to plan the party's most important representative buildings in the Gau capital, Salzburg; this included the planning of a “Gauforum” and a new festival hall on Kapuzinerberg .

In the last days of the Second World War he was killed on the road between Hallein and Kaltenhausen by a detonating time-fuse bomb.

The materials handed down in his estate document the largely unknown and, above all, enormous extent of the building projects in Salzburg that Adolf Hitler personally determined.

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  • Nekrolog in the Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde, Volume 84/85 (1944/1945), p. 211.
  • Ingrid Holzschuh, lecture “The Salzburg architect Otto Strohmayr (1900–1945). Leben und Werk ”, held on December 2, 2011 in the Müllnerbräu , as announced in the information publication “ Landesgeschichte aktuell ” No. 186 (PDF; 563 kB).
  • This article in the previous version (accessed on January 1, 2012, not provided with sources; only cited here insofar as the information is not supported by the other sources)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Spelling with e in Holzschuh, spelling without e in MGSLK-Nekrolog and in "Dehio Salzburg 1986".
  2. ↑ a b c d e f MGSLK-Nekrolog
  3. ↑ a b c d wooden shoe
personal data
SURNAME Strohmayr, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strohmayer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hallein , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1945
Place of death Hallein , Austria