German architect Fred Otto became head of the municipal planning and building control office in Chemnitz during the 1920s, and helped shape the cityscape. He studied at the Technical High School of Dresden, but after World War I moved to Chemnitz. Otto’s style was in the New Objectivity school. He built administrative buildings such as the city water plant, industrial and grammar schools, the municipal nursing home at the former Karl-Marx-Square, and the Savings Bank, the bathhouse, the elementary school in Borna.