Gedenktafel Olympischer Platz 4 (West) Otto March

Otto March (7 October 1845 – April 1913) was a German architect and father of architects

Werner March Werner Julius March (17 January 1894 – 11 January 1976) was a German architect, son of Otto March (1845-1913), and brother of Walter March, both also well-known German architects. Werner March designed Germany's 1936 Olympic stadi ...

(1894–1976) and Walter March (1898–1969).

Biography

Otto Jakob March was born in

Charlottenburg Charlottenburg () is a Boroughs and localities of Berlin, locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Established as a German town law, town in 1705 and named after Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen consort of Kingdom ...

, to the pottery manufacturer, Ernst March. Numerous residential and commercial buildings and churches throughout Germany were built on March's designs. He designed the

Deutsches Stadion The ''Deutsches Stadion'' ("German Stadium") was a monumental stadium designed by Albert Speer for the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg, southern Germany. Its construction began in September 1937, and was scheduled for completion in 1943. ...

, built for the 1916 Olympic Games. March married Anna Marie Vorster (born 1863 in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

), daughter of

Julius Vorster Julius Vorster (29 April 1809, Hamm – 10 October 1876, Cologne) was a German entrepreneur, one of the founders of Chemische Fabrik Kalk, a major German chemical enterprise in Cologne. Life Frederick Julius Vorster was the son of Johannes Vorst ...

. The couple had four sons. Two of them, Werner and Walter, became architects and designed the

Olympiastadion Olympiastadion is the German, Finnish and Swedish word for Olympic Stadium and may refer to: * Stockholm Olympic Stadium, the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics (though mostly referred as simply ''Stockholms Stadion'') * Olympiastadion (Berlin), the ...

for the 1936 Olympic Games. Otto March is credited with cultivating the interest of his young nephew

Werner Hegemann Werner Hegemann (June 15, 1881, Mannheim – April 12, 1936, New York City) was an internationally known city planner, architecture critic, and author. A leading German intellectual during the Weimar Republic, his criticism of Hitler and the Naz ...

in city planning. Hegemann became an influential city planner, author, critic of the Nazis, and editor of the architectural journal, ''Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst''. March died in Berlin in early April 1913.

References

Biography
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