Paul Wallot

Johann Paul Wallot (26 June 1841 Oppenheim am Rhein – 10 August 1912 Bad Schwalbach) was a German architect of Huguenot descent, best known for designing the Reichstag building in Berlin, erected between 1884 and 1894.

He also built the adjacent Palace of the President of the Reichstag, finished in 1904, and the former Saxon Ständehaus state diet building of 1906 at Brühl's Terrace in Dresden.

As a descendant of the Huguenot noble family Vallot, which originates in South of France, Paul Wallot was born on 26 June 1841 at Krämerstraße 7 in Oppenheim.

Between the years 1864 and 1868 he worked again in Berlin with the architects Heinrich Strack, Richard Lucae and Friedrich Hitzig.

In 1872, Wallot undertook a second study trip to Italy, where he became particularly interested in works by the architects Andrea Palladio and Michele Sanmicheli.

With his colleague Friedrich von Thiersch, Wallot shared the competition's first prize, but his design was almost unanimously voted by the jury.

On 9 June 1884, the foundation ceremony was celebrated, and ten years later, on 5 December 1894, the capstone was set solemnly.

[3] Kaiser Wilhelm II called the Reichstag building Reichsaffenhaus , (Reich monkey house),[4] which, however, also referred to the democratic legal form of parliamentarism.

During a stay at the spa, Paul Wallot died at the age of 71 on August 10, 1912, in Langenschwalbach, today the county seat of the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis Bad Schwalbach.