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Richard Wolffenstein

Richard Wolffenstein was born on 7 September 1846 in Berlin and died on 13 April 1919 in Berlin. He was the son of a dye factory owner who studied trade school and acquired the high school diploma in 1864. He had an apprenticeship as a mason between 1864 and 1868 and studied subsequently at the Berliner Bauakademie. Beside his education, he worked in the architecture offices of Kyllmann & Heyden, and Hude & Hennicke. After the master builder examination in 1873, he was active with the architect Wilhelm Neumann specializing in state administration for the next three years. From the years 1876 to 1878, he led an extended study trip through Italy, Holland, England, France and Spain. Through teaching at the Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlins from 1878 to 1896 he met Wilhelm Cremer and in 1882 they formed the firm Cremer & Wolffenstein. Richard Wolffenstein was a founding member of the Vereinigung Berliner Architekten on 8 June 1879 and in 1898 was a board member. In 1907 he was a Baurat and in 1912 he was appointed Geheimen Baurat.

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