Theodor Kelter

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Theodor Kelter (born February 5, 1907 in Großhau near Düren , † December 19, 1982 in Cologne ) was a German architect .

Kelter specialized in administrative buildings in the 1950s and 1960s. In Cologne he had a major impact on the post-war appearance of the Cologne Rings , with most of the buildings still serving their original purpose today.

Life

Theodor Kelter studied architecture in Aachen and Munich and worked together with Lutz Tappert from 1934 to 1939 as a freelance architect with offices in Cologne and Düren. At the end of the war he moved entirely to Cologne. From 1938–1968, Willi Heuser was chief architect at the Kelter office until it was taken over by H. Feltes in 1968 and dissolved in 1970.

Kelters estate is in the historical archive of the city of Cologne (holdings 1388).

buildings

Hotel Barceló-Cologne (former high-rise of the Provinzial-Versicherung)
Pavilion building for the Stadtsparkasse, Komödienstraße 2
Residential and commercial building Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 24
In Cologne
  • Branch of the Stadtsparkasse at Ebertplatz 1 (1950)
  • Buildings for the non-profit housing and building cooperative "Mietenschutz" eGmbH , Cologne-Ossendorf, 1950/1951
  • Competition draft for a BfG Bank building at Cologne Cathedral, 1951 (not executed)
  • Residential house in Cologne-Lindenthal, 1952
  • Main office of the Stadtsparkasse, Habsburgerring 2–12, 1952/1953 (renovation of the facade 1981/1982, demolished in 2010)
  • Office and commercial building of the Cologne Life Insurance Company, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 20
  • Hohenstaufenhaus on Zülpicher Platz
  • Movie theater on Rudolfplatz , 1956
  • Competition designs “Small Bar” and “Large Bar” for the later Severins Bridge, 1954
  • Pavilion building for the Stadtsparkasse, Komödienstraße 2, corner of Andreaskloster, in front of St. Andreas (with Joachim Schürmann )
  • Victoria Insurance Building, Hohenzollernring / Bismarckstrasse
  • Residential and commercial building at Hohenzollernring 99/101 (adjacent to the Victoria Insurance building)
  • Residential house in the southwest part of the city, 1954
  • Office and commercial building, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 24 (ground floor today "Pesch Wohnen")
  • Hanemann textile department store, Antoniterstraße 1–9, around 1955
  • Inspection office of the GEW works
  • Sparkasse car counter, Mauritiuswall, 1957
  • Salvatorkirche in Weidenpesch , 1957/1958
  • Provincial insurance high-rise, Habsburgerring 9–13, 1961–1962 (used as a hotel since 1988)
  • Vocational school, Perlengraben
Outside Cologne
  • Administration building of Badenwerk AG , Karlsruhe, 1961–1965 (with Möckel & Schmidt, Karlsruhe)
  • Former administration building of Kölnische Lebensversicherung AG in Dortmund, Hoher Wall 15, 1961–1962
  • Karlsruher Lebensversicherung building in Karlsruhe, Friedrich-Scholl-Platz 1, 1952

literature

Web links

Commons : Theodor Kelter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich S. Soénius, Jürgen Wilhelm: Kölner Personen-Lexikon. P. 277.
  2. ↑ Hoher Wall 15: Hoher Wall 15. In : hochwall15.de. Retrieved November 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Kelter, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1982
Place of death Cologne