After his education in carpentry German architect Emil Pohle attended the School of Applied Arts in Düsseldorf. Before World War I he worked with the architect Karl Wach and was an assistant to Edmund Körner at the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony. After 1918, Pohle lived and worked in Dortmund, partly independently, and occasionally in partnership with the architect Adolf Ott and his younger brother Bruno Pohle. Until World War II Emil Pohle was one of the most successful architects in Dortmund, also in, winning several prizes in national competitions. In 1940 he closed his office in Dortmund, which was later destroyed in an air raid. From 1944-60 Pohle lived in Kassel, where he also worked successfully. Emil Pohle was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund (DWB) and the German Architects (BDA).