Ľudovít (Ludwig, Lajos) Oelschläger was a highly prolific architect with his own individual style. He was one of the most significant personalities of the Košice architectural scene of the inter-war period. Although of the German origins, the cultural and political orientation of the Košice business family was strongly Hungarian, which was reflected in his choice of university studies. Royal Joseph Technical University in Budapest was the first university in the Kingdom of Hungary with the possibility to study architecture on the university level. It also had a reputation of a respectable and traditional institution educating and raising practically oriented designers. The period after the university, followed by the studies in Germany (1922-1923) and work in a Budapest architectural studio (1923-1924) can be characterised as a period of learning, searching and gradual creating of his own architectural view. His deeply rooted traditional feeling, which was probably gained in the domestic bourgeois cultural environment, was later fortified by traditional classical education. Even one year work in the Budapest studio of the architects Bogdanfy& Gerloczy helped the young architect to develop a respect for the history and the classics. The inter-war period was characterised by construction boom in Slovakia. It was not different even in Košice, the second largest city in Slovakia. Despite this trend and a relatively small number of trained architects, obtaining the contracts was not easy. The state contracts were carried out mainly by the Czech architects from the centres directly. The pool of potential builders for Oelschläger (and also for other home builders and architects) was restricted to business, religious environment, urban management and individual contractors. In getting the work he was probably considerably helped by business connections of his rich evangelical business and merchant family, which for years had played an important role in the economic, religious and political life of Košice. Therefore, it is not surprising that after his return to Košice, which was very close to the cultural-social climate of Budapest, he had lucrative contracts for several public buildings in Košice, as well as outside of the city. The first major works he won through competitions, which he had attended with an architect Geiza Bosko. Oelschläger searched for a way towards new architecture as many others in the region: through reduction of the classical ancient forms and true projection of the internal disposition into the volume and form of a building. In a short time he found his own individual style, remarkable for its specific peculiar nuances: the choice of traditional and new materials used in the harmony of tradition and modernity was characteristic for his work. Efforts for the highest quality reached with simple, but uncommon original solutions and artistic touch for details can be seen in almost all the work of the "Košice period". "Especially a strong sense of detail was typical for him. ...He was an architect who managed to put a hallmark of the finished building on a modern structure. The inter-war modernism was very economical and efficient, but it lacked the "spice", which had always been throughout the whole history of architecture -- a detail." Oelschläger, in his own way, gradually transformed the strong influence of the European modernism in his work into the bold purist, then in mid-thirties already functionalist compositions. He ultimately left the concept of "organically" formulated functionalism in exceptional, but duly substantiated cases, surprising with quality work with elegant functionalist aesthetic.