Fritz Landauer (architect)

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Fritz Landauer (born June 13, 1883 in Augsburg , † November 17, 1968 in London ) was a German architect who was forced to emigrate in 1937 because of his Jewish descent .

Life

Synagogue in Augsburg
Tomb for Samuel Landauer (1846–1937)

Fritz Landauer was the son of Joseph (1853–1929) and Anna Landauer (1861–1913). His father was a son of Moses Samuel Landauer (1808-1894). This came from Hürben and was a weaver . Moses Landauer founded the M. S. Landauer textile factory in Oberhausen , which was expropriated by the National Socialists in 1938 .

From 1902 to 1907 Fritz Landauer studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and then at the Technical University of Munich . In 1906/1907 he worked for Friedrich von Thiersch in the construction of the Wiesbaden Kurhaus and the festival hall in Frankfurt am Main . From 1909 to 1934 Fritz Landauer worked as a freelance architect in Munich.

In addition to the synagogues in Augsburg , Plauen and London, he designed residential and functional buildings, but also furniture and tombs. Persecution and expulsion made him, like many German-Jewish architects, forgotten.

At the Jewish cemetery in Augsburg , Fritz Landauer designed a number of remarkable tombs, especially for deceased members of his family.

Even before Landauer and his family finally emigrated to London, he was responsible for building two synagogues there between 1935 and 1937.

Buildings and designs

  • 1907: Competition design for a gymnasium and festival hall in Friedberg (Hesse)
  • around 1911: House for Otto Landauer in Augsburg, Frölichstrasse 5 ( monument )
  • 1914–1917: Synagogue Augsburg (monument)
  • 1922: War memorial of the Nuremberg Israelite Community on the New Jewish Cemetery in Nuremberg (inaugurated on November 12, 1922)
  • 1928–1930: Plauen Synagogue (destroyed)
  • 1930: Villa Strauss in Augsburg, Nibelungenstraße 17 (monument)
  • 1930–1931: Hirschmann House in Fürth , Würzburger Strasse 51 (monument)
  • 1935–1936: North Western Reform Synagogue in Golders Green , London
  • 1936–1937: Willesden Green Federated Synagogue in Willesden Green, London

literature

  • Benigna Schönhagen (Ed.): "Ma Tovu ...". "How beautiful are your tents, Jakob ..." Synagogues in Swabia . Franz Schiermeier Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-943866-24-7 , pp. 137 (Accompanying volume to the traveling exhibition “Ma Tovu…”. “How beautiful are your tents, Jakob…” Synagogues in Swabia of the Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg-Swabia and the Network of Historical Synagogue Places in Bavarian Swabia).
  • Sabine Klotz: Fritz Landauer (1883–1968). Life and work of a Jewish architect. (=  Writings of the Architecture Museum Swabia . Volume 4 ). Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01247-1 (not evaluated).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 42, 1908, No. 7 (from January 22, 1908), p. 48.
personal data
SURNAME Landauer, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1968
Place of death London