Alexander Beer
Alexander Beer (born September 10, 1873 in Hammerstein , West Prussia ; † May 8, 1944 in Theresienstadt ) was a German architect and municipal builder in Berlin .
Life
Beer studied at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg and at the Technical University Darmstadt . He began his professional activity in Mainz and Alzey , where he created the chapel of the State Neurological Clinic . As a community builder (since 1910) and head of the building authority of the Jewish community in Berlin , Beer created, among other things, the building of the Jewish orphanage in Pankow , the Orthodox synagogue on the former Kottbuser Ufer (today Fraenkelufer) in Kreuzberg and the synagogue Prinzregentenstrasse in Wilmersdorf . Like the memorial of the Jewish soldiers who died in World War I (1927) in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee , there are numerous, largely unidentified gravestones there in a synthesis of neo-baroque and art deco styles by Beer (e.g. B. the wall graves Wassermann-Freudenheim-Michalski; Samson Hochfeld ).
On March 17, 1943 Alexander Beer was due to the Nuremberg racial laws in the Theresienstadt concentration camp deported, where he was murdered on May 8 1944th
Beer had been married to Alice Fanny Davidsohn since 1924, who died in 1941. The daughter Beate (* 1929) escaped to Great Britain on a Kindertransport in 1939 .
On April 20, 2012, Alexander Beer was honored with a Berlin plaque at the house, Auguststrasse 11-13, in Berlin-Mitte .
plant
Buildings and designs
Several of Beer's buildings are listed buildings ( D ).
- 1912–1913: Jewish orphanage Berlin in Berlin-Pankow ( D )
- 1913–1916: Fraenkelufer Orthodox Synagogue in Berlin-Kreuzberg ( D )
- 1922–1926: War memorial at the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee ( D )
- 1927–1928: Jewish girls' school at Auguststrasse 11 in Berlin-Mitte ( D )
- 1928–1930: Synagogue Prinzregentenstraße in Berlin-Wilmersdorf (burned down in 1938, ruins removed in 1958)
- 1929–1930: Retirement home of the Berlin Jewish community in Berlin-Schmargendorf ( D )
- ? –1933: Conversion of the community hospice in Oranienburger Strasse into a Jewish museum
Fonts
- Cemetery culture. In: Gemeindeblatt der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin , Volume 19 1929, No. 12 (December 1929), pp. 641–642.
- Construction of the Prinzregentenstrasse synagogue. In: Gemeindeblatt der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin , Volume 20, 1930, No. 9 (from September 1930), pp. 402–404.
- New construction of the synagogue on Prinzregentenstrasse in Berlin. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 64, 1930, No. 73/74, pp. 521–525.
- The new old people's home of the Jewish community. In: Gemeindeblatt der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin , Volume 21, 1931, No. 4 (April 1931), pp. 124–125.
literature
- Myra Warhaftig : German Jewish Architects before and after 1933. The Lexicon. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2005, pp. 60-63.
- Inge Lammel : Alexander Beer. Builder of the Berlin Jewish Community. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Beer: The memorial in the cemetery of the Jewish community in Berlin-Weißensee . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . tape 61 , no. 66 , August 17, 1927, p. 545-549 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beer, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and master builder in Berlin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hammerstein , West Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1944 |
| Place of death | Theresienstadt |