Wilhelm Fähler

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Wilhelm Fähler (born September 26, 1889 in Offenbach am Main ; † March 26, 1953 in Solingen due to a car accident) was an architect from Leverkusen .

Life

Fähler planned the cemetery chapel at the Manfort cemetery from 1917 to 1918 and the Neuenhof settlement in Küppersteg in 1919 . From 1917 to 1922 he was a municipal servant and from 1919 municipal builder .

In 1922 he accepted the major contract from the construction workshops in Stixchesstrasse and then opened his own architectural office, which he managed until his death. In his professional career he designed many buildings that are still important today, e.g. B. the Carl-Duisberg-Gymnasium in Leverkusen in 1927, the Protestant parish hall in Leverkusen's Otto-Grimm-Strasse in 1931 and 1948 he was also a co-planner in the reconstruction of many churches, including the Christ Church and the reconstruction of St. Stephen's Church in Leverkusen- Bürrig .

He was also the architect of the "Heidehöhe" estate and the Bürrig fire station . In 1953 he died as a result of a serious car accident.

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