Hother Erich Werner Bøttger (18 May 1801 – 28 October 1857) was a Norwegian architect. He was born at Skien in

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, Norway. His father Johannes Bøttger had immigrated from Denmark and was the local church

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. Bottger was trained as a master carpenter and later as an architect at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in

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. He worked as a merchant in

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for a while before returning to Skien by approximately 1830. He was eventually appointed chief architect in the city. Bottger was associated with a number of local projects including improvements to the old Skien Church. The main building at Holden Manor (''Holden hovedgård'') at

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was rebuilt and expanded for Diderik von Cappelen (1795–1866) owner of

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in the 1850s. He also completed the drawings for the Norges Bank building in Skien. He was first elected to the Skien city council in 1839. He served as mayor of Skien from 1842 to 1843.Mayors of Skien, Gjerpen and Solum
/ref> He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1845 and 1857, representing the constituency of Skien.Hother Erik Werner Bøttger
— Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) He died right after the end of his second term.

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1801 births 1857 deaths People from Skien 19th-century Norwegian architects Norwegian people of Danish descent 19th-century Norwegian people Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni Mayors of places in Telemark Members of the Storting {{Norway-politician-1800s-stub