Carl Theodor Ottmer
Carl Theodor Ottmer ( born January 19, 1800, Braunschweig, † August 22, 1843 in Berlin) was a master builder, who was known by buildings in his native Braunschweig and Berlin.
Life
Carl Theodor Ottmer grew up as the son of a surgeon Johann Heinrich Gottfried Ottmer (1767-1814) and his second wife Elisabeth Friederike Sophie, nee Geissler (1775-1826) in a medical household on. He first began his training in 1816 at the Collegium Carolinum and served an apprenticeship at the Ducal Brunswick Building Department in his native town. He was promoted and trained from 1817 to 1821 by the senior architect Peter Joseph Krahe. After completing his apprenticeship in 1822 he went to Berlin to further studies at the School of Architecture. There he was trained in the field of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, but was never his direct student. He was close friends with the head of the Academy of Music Carl Friedrich Zelter, whose initiative the building of the Sing- Akademie zu Berlin goes back to the chestnut grove. In Berlin, he came out with its first projects, which earned him recognition beyond the confines of Berlin.
Ottmer was an expert on the theater of his time and was in the construction or remodeling of the theater in Berlin (1824 ), Hamburg ( 1825), Leipzig ( 1826), Braunschweig (1826 ), Dresden (1828 /29), Meiningen ( 1830) and Wolfenbüttel (1835 ) consulted.
He refused an appointment as court architect in Berlin and traveled 1827-1829 to France and Italy. After his return Ottmer married on March 1, 1829 Cecilia Charlotte Clementine, born Abich (* 1808, † after 1866 ).
Already in 1824 he was appointed by Duke Karl II of Brunswick - Wolfenbüttel court architect. After the fire of the Brunswick residential palace in 1830 he was court architect in Braunschweig. In this capacity, he designed a large number of administrative and military buildings (barracks ), but also representational architecture, such as the new residence castle, traffic constructions ( such as station buildings ) and residential installations. As is common in the first half of the 19th century, he worked with various " architectural styles " with " Gothic " forms as well as "classical " - depending on the construction task.
For his last and certainly valuable content project, the second Brunswick train station, he could only deliver the plans before he died after a long illness in August 1843 - to treat his serious illness he returned to Berlin in 1843. The building was designed exactly for these ( now lost ) plans 1843-1845.
After his death Ottmer was transferred to his hometown of Brunswick and was buried there with great interest of the population in the cathedral cemetery.