Willy Hoffmann (architect)

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Hermann Willy Hoffmann (born June 15, 1878 in Halle (Saale) , † 1977 in Bad Soden am Taunus ) was a German architect .

Life

From 1897 Hoffmann studied architecture at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . In 1904 he received the Schinkel Prize for Architecture and was accepted into the Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (AIV) . In 1907 he got a job in the construction department of the Imperial Post Office . In 1911 Hoffmann went to Hanover as a postal construction engineer , in 1912 to Breslau and in 1914 to Berlin. Presumably he volunteered at the outbreak of the First World War . In 1920 Hoffmann was appointed post office building officer, in 1924 he was appointed senior post building officer. In 1934 Willy Hoffmann was retired.

Many of the buildings he designed are now listed .

buildings

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literature

  • Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Post and telecommunications. (= Berlin and its buildings , Part X, Volume B, Part 4.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1987.
  • Falk Jaeger: Posthorn & Imperial Eagle. The historic post offices in Berlin. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87584-197-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birth register of StA Halle, No. 1166/1878
  2. Death register StA Bad Soden am Taunus, No. 406/1977