Dieter Oesterlen

German architect and university teacher Dieter Oesterlen studied in Stuttgart and Berlin. Between 1939 and 1945 he constructed war strategic production plant for the Hitler regime working as a government architect. After World War II Oesterlen returned to his hometown of Hanover; where he had lived since he came to Hanover with his parents already as a child.

The reconstruction of the Market Church from 1946, or the construction of the well-known Café Kroepcke, which was completed in 1948 before the currency reform, established Oesterlen in Hanover as a modern architect. Until the mid-1960s, he designed numerous public buildings. At the Technical High School of Braunschweig he became one of the founders of the so-called “Braunschweig School.” He became one of the most influential high school architecture teachers in post-war Germany. One of his best known buildings from the 1980s was the German Embassy in Buenos Aires. The “Design: Stadium” was developed during the days of his studies in Berlin. Further details are not known.