German Bestelmeyer

German Bestelmeyer studied at Technical University of Munich and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Munich. Employment is recorded with Technical University of Munich, Berlin University of the Arts and Technische Universität Berlin. Works named in the authority record are Christ Church. Distinctions recorded are Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art.

Bestelmeyer was born in Nuremberg, the son of a military doctor. He studied architecture from 1893 to 1897 at the Technical University of Munich under Friedrich von Thiersch and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Friedrich von Schmidt.

Bestelmeyer worked as a building inspector and planner in Nuremberg, Regensburg, and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where he designed an extension to the main building that was built between 1906 and 1910.

Bestelmeyer brought von Senger to the Bavarian Academy and designed buildings such as the Luftwaffe office building on the Prinzregentenstraße in Munich, which were much praised at the time. However, he also designed a number of mostly Protestant churches, some of which met with official approval, and Hitler chose his design for the Mangfall Bridge, a girder bridge on two massive concrete pylons carrying one of the new Reichsautobahns, which was influential in its simple modernity and size.

Bestelmeyer died in 1942 at the resort of Bad Wiessee. On Hitler's orders, his body was brought back to Munich and after lying in state in the Academy of Fine Arts, transferred for the state funeral to the light-court of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München which he had designed, with 300 members of the Hitler Youth in attendance.

• Extension to Main Building of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1906–09) • Adolphus Busch Hall at Harvard University, then the Germanic Museum (1910) • Schlosshotel im Grunewald in Berlin-Grunewald (1911–14), built as a villa for Walter von Pannwitz • Renovation and extension of Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg (1914–19) • Administration building, Life Insurance Bank "Arminia" in Munich (1914–16) • Altes Stadthaus in Bonn (1922) • Reichsschuldenverwaltung Building in Berlin (1921–23) • Extension Building of Technical University of Munich (1923–26) • Kroch High-rise on Augustusplatz in Leipzig (1927/28) • Protestant Christuskirche (Church of Christ) in Neuburg an der Donau (1927–30) • Protestant Auferstehungskirche (Church of the Resurrection) in Munich-Westend (1930–31) • Research Building and Congress Center of the Deutsches Museum in Munich (1928–35) • Mangfall Bridge near Weyarn (1934–36) • Luftwaffe Gau Command on Prinzregentenstraße in Munich (1935–36; now Bavarian Ministry of Economics) • Protestant Stephanuskirche (St. Stephen's Church) in Munich Neuhausen-Nymphenburg (1936–38) • Illustration — Reichsschuldenverwaltung building, Berlin (1921–23) • Illustration — Kroch Building, Leipzig (1927/28) • Illustration — Mangfall Bridge (1934–36), pictured in 1936 • Illustration — Luftwaffe Gau Command, Munich (1935–36) • Illustration — Melancthon Church, Nuremberg (1938–40)

German Bestelmeyer is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Bestelmeyer worked at Munich. Recorded as having studied at Technical University of Munich and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.