Hans Dammann

His primary instructors were Albert Wolff, Ernst Herter, Peter Breuer and Gerhard Janensch.

His first large scale work was a fountain with a statue of a night watchman at the Lindener Marktplatz [de] (1896).

Over the coming years, he created more than 130 funerary monuments, including full-scale tombs at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Charlottenburg and at the Friedhof Wilmersdorf.

[2] He continued to do a few non-cemetery works, including another fountain in Bad Salzuflen, for the Hoffmannstift, a hospital operated by Hoffmann's Starch Factories (for which he waived his fee), and a figure of a blacksmith for the second parapet of the town hall in Bielefeld.

A group of figures for the fountain at the "Kaiserjubiläumspark" in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe earned him the title of Professor, from Kaiser Wilhelm II, in 1914.

This prompted him to undertake the creation of what are now his best known works; a series of war memorials for soldier's graves.