Eduard Scotland

Eduard Scotland ( born July 4, 1885 in Bremen, † June 20, 1945 ) was a German architect.

Biography

Scotland - son of a bank clerk - studied after his schooling at the secondary school Dechanatstraße and a bricklayer at the technical school in Bremen ( today Hochschule Bremen ). Just one year after graduation he founded in 1904 with his college friend Alfred Runge an architectural firm. They renovated houses in the surrounding areas of Lower Saxony and realized from 1906 to 1915 in and around Bremen, a number of country - manor and town houses and hostels and community centers for companies. Scotland - sponsored by Lloyd - General Heinrich Wiegand - planned in 1907 the interior of the passenger steamer Princess Cecilia.

Scotland has also been active as a designer and commercial artist. Are known designs for furniture, fabrics and carpets. From 1911 worked on the initiative of Ludwig Roselius the office as artistic advisor of the company Kaffee HAG and they developed the design of the packaging, posters, ads up to the coffee service and coffee machines. At the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition of 1914 they designed interiors of the restaurant of Bremen / Oldenburg house.

His most important buildings emerged after the First World War: According to the plans of Scotland and Runge, who were close to the "home protection movement ", was from 1923 to 1926 in the coopers road - a 100 m long street in the old town of Bremen - the Kaffee HAG - house House of St. Peter, the house of the carillon as well as other office buildings built. The houses were built with the then typical materials brick and sandstone. More houses - among other things from 1924 Schwachhauser Ring 2-18 - were planned and implemented by him.

National Socialism rejects the type of cooper road culture from sharply. In the Third Reich the buildings target jealous of Nazi cultural critics were. Nevertheless, from 1933 and 1944, conservative, some National Socialist Scotland professor and then head of the construction department at the Nordic School of Art (now University of the Arts Bremen). Scotland was until 1934 a member of the Deutscher Werkbund.

In Bremen - Kattenturm there is the Scotlandweg.