Waldemar Osterloff

Waldemar Osterloff (born April 1, 1858 in St. Petersburg , † September 4, 1933 in Strasbourg ) was a German architect and building contractor .

Manoir du Contades

biography

Waldemar Osterloff, son of a musician, was born on a trip to St. Petersburg. When he was three years old, his family moved to Freiburg im Breisgau . Osterloff attended the Grand Ducal Gymnasium there. From 1878 he studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic and became a member of the Germania fraternity (now Teutonia ). Contact with Otto Back arose during his studies . After completing his studies, Back asked him to manage his construction company in Strasbourg. Osterloff accepted the offer and moved to Strasbourg in 1891. He continued to run the company even after Back's death. At the same time he was also self-employed.

Osterloff was involved in the construction of numerous buildings in Strasbourg and other areas, for example

• Art Nouveau house at 7, rue Édouard Teutsch, Strasbourg
• General hospital of the municipality of Teschen
• Center for Psychiatry Emmendingen

Osterloff retired around 1930. He was married and had a daughter and two sons. His last residence was in the splendid Strasbourg Villa Manoir du Contades (also known as "Villa Osterloff", built in 1902 by the architect Albert Nadler (1863–1952)).

literature

• Shelley Hornstein: Tendances d'architecture art nouveau à Strasbourg , doctoral thesis, Strasbourg, 1981, pp. 60–62.
• Josef Joachim Menzel: Silesians from the 15th to the 20th Century , 1990.
• Rodolphe Rapetti: Strasbourg 1900: Naissance d'une capitale , 2000.
• Theodore Rieger: Strasbourg architecture: 1871-1918 , 1991, p. 171.
• Elisabeth Guévremont: Les architectes travaillant à Strasbourg durant l'entre-deux-guerres, 1918–1939 , 1997, p. 182.
• Waldemar Osterloff in Archi-Wiki
• Yearbook of the Alsace-Lorraine Scientific Society of Strasbourg , 1934.