Walter Loeffler

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Walter Loeffler , also: Walter Löffler , Walter Löfler and Walther Theodor Löffler (born March 11, 1898 in Altnuifra , † 1938 near Frankfurt am Main ), was a German architect and a victim of the dictatorship of the National Socialists .

Life

Walter Loeffler was the son of the drawing teacher Gottlieb Samuel Löffler and his wife Elise Regine, geb. Basement, cellar. He grew up as an only child, studied architecture and married Gertrud Hermann in Stuttgart in 1922 . From this marriage a son named Thomas was born.

Loeffler was in Berlin from 1929 to 1931 assistant to Heinrich Tessenow and thus a colleague of Albert Speer . During his time at Tessenow, he was involved in redesigning the Neue Wache as a Reich Memorial. He later moved to Frankfurt am Main , where he succeeded Franz Schuster as head of the interior design class at the Städelschule . In 1935 he published his work Kleines Wohnhaus . At the beginning of 1937 he was commissioned to redesign the building at Neue Mainzer Strasse 57, which had belonged to the emigrated Paul Hirsch , for the Frankfurt fashion department.

The Loeffler couple came into the Gestapo's focus during this time . According to Ulrich Kull , Walter Loeffler had helped a Jewish student who wanted to emigrate to finish his diploma thesis beforehand so that he could emigrate with a completed education; according to other sources, he had hosted an opponent of the regime in 1934, had contacts on his left or in his own Duplicated leaflets against the Nazi regime.

In any case, in 1938 Loeffler was interrogated and harassed by the Gestapo; his passport was confiscated. Shortly before the opening of the converted house on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Frankfurt Fashion Office on November 19, 1938, the Loeffler couple committed suicide, disguised as a car accident. Loeffler's name was then apparently no longer allowed to be mentioned in connection with the fashion department, which is why Margarethe Klimt was now officially responsible for the renovation .

Walter and Gertrud Loeffler, like Loeffler's parents later, were buried in the New Cemetery in Ludwigsburg . The son, who was to be drafted into the SS, enlisted in the Wehrmacht instead and was killed in World War II .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The last form of the name can be found in: Ulrich Kull, Gottlieb Löffler - a Swabian painter , in: Ludwigsburger Geschichtsblätter 34 (1982), pp. 134-143, here p. 135 ( online ). The spelling of “Walter” with th can be excluded in view of the cover of Kleines Wohnhaus , cf. www.de8enopbouw.nl , as well as the spelling of the surname used by the DNB with just one f. The Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , which otherwise uses umlauts if necessary, uses the name form "Walter Loeffler" like many other publications, cf. Ernst and Korn: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Ernst and Korn, 1936, p. 1281 ( limited preview in the Google book search), but there is also numerous evidence for the form “Löffler”.
  2. ↑ a b Ulrich Kull, Gottlieb Löffler - a Swabian painter , in: Ludwigsburger Geschichtsblätter 34 (1982), pp. 134–143, here p. 139
  3. ↑ a b Ulrich Kull, Gottlieb Löffler - a Swabian painter , in: Ludwigsburger Geschichtsblätter 34 (1982), pp. 134–143, here p. 140
  4. ↑ a b c d Klimt, Margarethe , on frankfurter-habenlexikon.de
  5. ^ A b Sebastian Tesch: Albert Speer (1905–1981). Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79595-7 , p. 33 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  6. ^ Andrea Koenecke: Walter Rossow (1910-1992). Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München AVM, 2015, ISBN 978-3-954-77037-3 , p. 50 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  7. ^ SAC and the Städelschule History on sac.staedelschule.de
personal data
SURNAME Loeffler, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loefler, Walter; Löffler, Walther Theodor; Loefler, Walther Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Altnuifra
DATE OF DEATH before November 19, 1938
Place of death near Frankfurt am Main