Otto Meitinger

Otto Meitinger ( born May 8, 1927 in Munich) is a German architect and conservationist. He was 1987-1995 President of the Technical University of Munich.

Life

Meitinger is the son of the Munich city building advice Karl Meitinger. After graduation, he studied architecture at the former Technical University of Munich and received his doctorate with a thesis on the architectural history of the Munich Residence. In 1953 he was appointed to the Board of the residence building department and managed the reconstruction of the war almost completely destroyed Munich Residence. Among other things, his use of the reconstructions of the Antiquarium, the "rich room," the court chapel and the Treasury owe. In time for the 800th anniversary of the city of Munich in 1958 was also the Cuvilliéstheater, although elsewhere, be rebuilt.

From 1963 he headed then the building department of the Max Planck Society. In 1976 he was appointed professor of design and historic preservation at the Technical University of Munich. In 1987 he was elected president of the university, where he remained until his retirement in 1995.

Meitinger is a member of numerous specialist bodies, including at the German Academy for Urban, the Bavarian architecture Committee, the State Monument, the selection committee of the Bavarian State Foundation and the Hypo Cultural Foundation and the Bavarian National Association for home care, the Board of Trustees of the Philip Morris Foundation and the Bavarian club.

Important buildings

  • Reconstruction of the Residenz, Munich
  • Palazzo Zuccari, Rome
  • Reconstruction of the Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn
  • Kaulbach Villa, Munich
  • Reconstruction of Schloss Bellevue, Berlin
  • Marstall, Munich

Honors and Awards

  • Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1991 )
  • Bavarian Order of Merit
  • Great Federal Cross of Merit
  • Medal Bene Merenti in silver of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences ( 1959)
  • Commander's Cross of the Etoile noir of the French Legion of Honour
  • Knight's Cross of the Pontifical Order of New Year's Eve
  • Culture Award Munich shines the friends of Munich in Gold
  • Honorary Golden Coin of the City of Munich (1995 )
  • Winners of the Bavarian People's Foundation (1998)
  • Honorary Citizen of the City of Munich (2005)
  • Honor Band of Munich fraternity Stauffia (on the occasion of his 50-year membership)
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