Otto Meitinger

Otto Meitinger (8 May 1927 in Munich – 9 September 2017) was a German architect and preservationist. From 1987 to 1995 he was president of the Technical University of Munich.

Life Meitinger was born as son of the first municipal architect of Munich Karl Meitinger. He studied architecture at the Department of Architecture of the Technical University of Munich, finished his Staatsexamen and got his doctorate on the building history of the Munich Residenz. At that time the reconstruction of the Residenz was considered as example for the reconstruction of war-destroyed historical buildings all over Europe.

In 1976 he became Professor for Design and Preservation at the Technical University of Munich.

Meitinger was member of a variety of professional societies and committees, i.e., at the German Academy of town planning (Deutschen Akademie für Städtebau), the Bavarian State Architectural Art Committee (Bayerischen Landesbaukunstausschuss), the State Memorial Committee (Landesdenkmalrat), the selection committees of the Bavarian State Foundation and the Hypo-Art-Foundation (Bayerischen Landesstiftung/Hypo-Kulturstiftung) and the board of trustees of the Philip Morris Foundation (Kuratorium der Philip Morris Stiftung). Commanders Cross of the Etoile noir of the French Legion of Honour Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester, Golden Honorary Coin of the City of Munich (1995) (Goldene Ehrenmünze der Stadt München). Honorary citizen of the city of Munich (2005) Founding Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (1990)

Literature Lehrstuhl für Entwerfen und Denkmalpflege Technische Universität München: Otto Meitinger : Architekt - Denkmalpfleger - Hochschullehrer, Munich 1997