Edwin Oppler

Edwin Oppler (18 June 1831, in Oels – 6 September 1880, in Hanover) was a German architect of Jewish ancestry,[1] and a major representative of the Neo-Gothic style.

He was the second son of Saloh Oppler, a wine merchant, and his wife Minna, née Seldis.

After becoming a member of the Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein Hannover [de] in 1856, he spent the next four years in Brussels and Paris, where he worked in the offices of Hoffmann & Massenot, with the stained glass artist, Eugène-Stanislas Oudinot [fr] and, primarily, with the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.

From 1872 to 1878 he published a magazine, Die Kunst im Gewerbe (Commercial Art) and operated a studio together with Ferdinand Schorbach [de].

One of his largest and most familiar, the Neue Synagoge [de] in Hanover, was burnt during the anti-Jewish riots known as "Kristallnacht", in 1938.