(b Almrich an der Saale, 10 June 1869; d Jena, 19 May 1949). German architect and writer. He first came to prominence with a series of reforming tracts published between 1902 and 1917 under the general title Kulturarbeiten. The first volume was devoted to housing and proposed that cultural and ethical regeneration could be achieved through architecture. He claimed that 19th-century historicism had destroyed honesty and simplicity in architecture, and he suggested two models whose imitation would help revive these virtues. One was the native German design of the Biedermeier period (1815–48); the other was contemporary English domestic architecture, which provided the model for Schultze-Naumburg’s best-known work, the Cecilienhof (1913–17) at Potsdam, built in the English Neo-Tudor style.

• Schultze-Naumburg, Paul
  • groups and movements
    • Block, Der
  • works
    • Germany, §II, 7(i): Architecture, 1900–39
    • Germany, §V, 5: Interior decoration, after c 1900
    • Nazism, §2: Art and architecture
    • Potsdam, §1: History and urban development