Disch-Haus takes its name from the "Hotel Disch", designed by Cologne architect Josef Felten and opened in October 1848 by Cologne art collector
Franz Karl Damian Disch (born 1821; died 6 November 1880 in Cologne). The Cologne address book of 1846 listed Disch as an innkeeper. The magnificent building, with its rococo hall suitable for chamber music, was one of the most internationally renowned hotels in Cologne, as only the Dom-Hotel was in its category. After Disch's death, the restorer Joseph Christoph from Frankfurt/Main acquired it at auction in May 1881. On 8 February 1890 the latter founded the operating company "Disch Hotel- und Verkehrs-AG", of which Peter Werhahn was a member of the
supervisory board. A first reconstruction was carried out in 1890 by the architect team Heinrich Joseph Kayser and Karl von Großheim. Another reconstruction of the hotel took place in 1912. The hotel hosted famous international guests and held important meetings. It was here that the first honorary citizen of Cologne, Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg-Stammheim, died of phlegm fever on 20 December 1859. In May 1914, the hotel hosted the delegates' meeting of the "Central Association of German Industrialists". Disch Hotel- und Verkehrs-AG" belonged to the circle of interests of Martin Sternberg, a banker living in Amsterdam. When Disch-AG went into insolvency, the banker Martin Sternberg owned a package of Disch shares, having sold his shares to the Düsseldorfer Baubank to cover a debit balance. The city acquired the hotel in 1928 from the insolvency of Disch-AG, which expired on 5 October 1929. == Office building by Bruno Paul and Franz Weber ==