(b Weiherhammer, 7 March 1854; d Munich, 21 Jan 1917). German architect. He was one of the most important exponents of late historicist architecture in southern Germany. He studied architecture (1874–8) at the Technische Hochschule, Munich, where in 1881 he became assistant to Friedrich von Thiersch. After serving as building assessor in Amberg (1883) and Munich (1886), he became building officer of Munich (1889) and professor of building studies at the Technische Hochschule (1899–1917). Apart from residential and religious buildings he produced a number of public buildings for the city in a style based on the contemporary south German Renaissance and Baroque Revival idioms using a picturesque ensemble of forms. His Müllersches Volksbad (1899–1901), Munich, one of the most successful examples of a large public bath, of which many were being built at this period, was of national importance. Its individual functional parts (large and small bath-halls, a Turkish bath, water-tower and heating building) are clearly identifiable from outside. The spatial conception owes something to Roman baths and the details show sparing Jugendstil ornamentation. His last and most extensive work was the large Baroque Revival complex of the Bavarian Ministry of Transport (1905–13; largely destr. 1945) in Munich. Its large, ribbed dome, 32 m in diameter, was regarded as a pioneering work of reinforced concrete construction. Outside Munich he designed mansions and country houses in Bavaria (e.g. at Murnau and Weilheim), and in the South Tyrol (e.g. at Levico [now in Italy]), as well as the Baroque Revival Rathaus (1907) in Bozen (also South Tyrol, now Bolzano, Italy), a bath in Hermannstadt (now Sibiu, Romania), and a health-resort garden at Banki, near Sofia (Bulgaria).

• Hocheder, Karl
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  • Tessenow, Heinrich