Hans Manteuffel (24 October 1879 – 17 January 1963) was a German architect. Manteuffel was born in Osterode in

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(now Ostróda, Poland). He attended the Baugewerkschule, Königsberg from 1900 to 1902 and started to work as a freelance architect in 1912. He was responsible for the construction of the Siebert & Kiewe Office building at

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's Altstädtischer Markt in 1928, the

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building at Vorstädtische Langgasse and the Alhambra cinema at Steindamm. After the

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Manteuffel worked in

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, where he died in 1963.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Manteuffel, Hans 1879 births 1963 deaths People from Ostróda People from East Prussia 20th-century German architects Modernist architects from Germany