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Was born in Kassel in Germany and was educated in Kassel, Hanover and Berlin, training as an architect and civil engineer. In 1881 he came to the Cape and in 1886 left for Pretoria from where in 1891 he moved to Johannesburg where he practised for several years. He was appointed supervising architect of Park Synagogue, being later appointed architect to the Johannesburg Hebrew Congregation for whom he built the Jewish School in De Villiers St (1897); he executed several subsequent buildings for the Jewish community. In 1897 when he designed the Deutsche Friedenskirche Parsonage he was an elder of the Friedenskirche. KROLL is said to have been with Frederick Struben when the gold reef was discovered in 1886. Towards the end of the Anglo-Boer War he was stationed at Crown Mines. He went to East Africa in 1926 but returned to the Transvaal in 1931 and set up practice as an architect in Nigel. He died in Florida in the Transvaal. ISAA 1927. (ISAA mem list; Norwich 1985; SAAR Mar 1935:87 obit; SAWW 1908)All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. List of projects With photographs With notes
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