Adolf Falke

[2] After attending a village school near Gifhorn, Falke contracted polio at the age of eight, which resulted in a shortened leg as a lifelong disability.

[citation needed] After his Abitur in 1910, Falke studied architecture at the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität Hannover[1] and at the Technical University of Munich from 1910 to 1914.

[4] The later Stadtbaurat Rudolf Hillebrecht also wanted to design in a "modern" way[citation needed] and therefore, after his studies, initially worked for Falke from 15 August 1933 to 15 February 1934,[5] from which a paternal-friendship relationship developed.

After a good year, the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Association of German Architects), which had been brought into line by the Nazis in 1934, was re-founded in Lower Saxony on 1 November 1946, and Falke held its chair until 1956.

[2] During the reconstruction of the Café Kröpcke as a provisional building for the Export Messe 1947, Falke was one of the participants in a limited architectural competition, which was finally won in 1948 by the design of Dieter Oesterlen.