page_title: Ludwig Hoffmann (architect)
section_title: Honors and criticism
hierarchical_section_title: Ludwig Hoffmann (architect) / Life and career / Honors and criticism
caption_attribution_description: Sign on the Ludwig-Hoffmann-Brücke in Berlin
context_page_description: Ludwig Ernst Emil Hoffmann was a German architect and was one of the most famous architects of Berlin.
context_section_description: In 1906 Ludwig Hoffmann was awarded the title of Privy Councillor and an honorary doctorate from the Technische Universität Darmstadt. In the same year he was elected to membership of the Prussian Academy of Arts. In 1917 he received a second honorary doctorate, from the Vienna University of Technology. Upon his retirement in 1924 he was awarded honorary citizenship of Berlin. A primary school in Friedrichshain (which he built), a hospital in Pankow, a bridge in Moabit, and a street in the Sellerhausen section of Leipzig bear his name.
  Hoffmann's work was long out of favor for its historicism, but is now recognized as an important part of the effort to accommodate Berlin's rapid growth prior to World War I. As early as 1956, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe admitted he had been wronged.
caption: Sign on the Ludwig Hoffmann Bridge in Moabit
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