Ottomar Holdefleiss

Ottomar Holdefleiss

Ottomar Holdefleiss , also written Ottomar Holdefleiss , (born December 16, 1855 in Salzmünde , † February 10, 1912 in Berlin ) was a German blacksmith and entrepreneur .

Life

Ottomar Holdefleiß was born in Salzmünde near Halle (Saale) . Here he trained as a metalworker, which at the time included both locksmith and blacksmith work. He came to Berlin in 1888 and, together with the locksmith Schulz, founded the company Schulz & Holdefleiß , Fennstrasse  13 in Wedding . (He lived in the house at Chausseestrasse 27.) As early as 1890, the company was located on the Lützowufer  31 property. In connection with the rapidly growing metropolis, the company received more and more orders, so that the number of employees temporarily rose to 300.

In 1896, the Schulz & Holdefleiß company won the gold medal at the Berlin industrial exhibition with the life-size fountain figure of a kneeling knight with the facial features of Bismarck . At the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 , the exhibition area of ​​the German textile industry was decorated with a work by the company.

From 1903–1904, Holdefleiß had the architect Julius Wendler build a representative villa on a 5000 m² plot of land on Adelheidallee not far from the Tegel estate , the upper floor of which is made of iron truss in an unusual way . An elaborately designed wrought iron garden fence has also been preserved from this time.

At the inauguration of the village church Alt-Tegel , for which Holdefleiß had donated the entrance portal, he contracted pneumonia on January 19, 1912 , from which he did not recover. He died on February 10th.

Works (selection)

job	Location	image
Wrought iron gate for portal IV	Berlin Palace
Wrought iron chandelier	Village church Hohen Neuendorf
Bronze church portal in a symmetrical arrangement of abstract circular ornaments	Alt-Tegel village church
Wrought iron, approx. 80 m wide closure of the exhibition area of ​​the German textile industry with a central, 10 m wide and 12.5 m high portal	World Exhibition Paris 1900
Pair of arc lamps and candelabra (based on a design by the architect Emil Högg ) (1905)	on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin
Original preserved wrought-iron entrance gate (1907)	Main entrance from Kaufhaus des Westens ( KaDeWe )
Entrance portal gates	Peace Palace in The Hague
Lighting poles and doors	Indianapolis War Memorial
all metal work on the Villa Holdefleiss	Adelheidallee 5-7 in Berlin-Tegel
Lighting fixtures in St. Pauli Church (before 1902; destroyed in World War II)	Brandenburg (Havel)

Web links

Commons : Ottomar Holdefleiss  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• War Memorial, Indianapolis (1887). Architecture museum in the university library, accessed on June 5, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} memorial plaques in Berlin - Ottomar Holdefleiß. German Resistance Memorial Center, accessed on June 5, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Holdefleiß, O. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1891, part 1, p. 526. “Kunstschlosser”.
3. ↑ Locksmith . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1890, III, p. 772.
4. ^ ^{A b} Ottomar Holdefleiss - Blacksmithing from Berlin by Schulz & Holdefleiss. Heimatmuseum Reinickendorf, School, Education and Culture Department, accessed on June 5, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Figure of the sculpture. Reinickendorf support group; Retrieved April 21, 2015.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ottomar Holdefleiss - Blacksmithing from Berlin - An exhibition of the Heimatmuseum. In: District Office Reinickendorf of Berlin. February 13, 2012, accessed June 5, 2014 . 
7. ↑ morgenpost.de
8. ↑ The new wrought-iron gates at the royal palace in Berlin In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 25, 1891, No. 91, November 14, 1891, p. 549 f (PDF), accessed on February 22, 2020.
9. ↑ Frauke Herweg: A truck races into the house . In: New Oranienburger Zeitung . October 4, 2010, ISSN  0863-7202 .
10. ↑ Volker Dithmar, Reinhard Dithmar, Franz Noerling: Evangelical Church Hohen Neuendorf 1909–2009 (Festschrift) . Ludwigsfelder Verlagshaus, Ludwigsfelde 2009, ISBN 978-3-933022-56-1 , p. 30 .
11. ↑ The new electrical lighting system on Potsdamer Platz . In Berliner Architekturwelt , 8th year 1905/1906, issue 4, July 1905, p. 157.
12. ↑ Harry Jandorf: Memories of my father Adolf Jandorf. In: Leo Baeck Institute , 1967, (typescript, PDF; 7 p., 4.7 MB), temporary session link is under Find out more , p. 3: "... a wonderful entrance gate".