Alexander Pinthus

Alexander Pinthus (born July 30, 1893 in Nordhausen , † 1981 in Haifa ) was a German architect and university lecturer for urban planning in Haifa.

life and career

Alexander Pinthus attended middle school and then the secondary school in his hometown, where he passed the Abitur in 1912. He then studied structural engineering, economics and urban planning at the Technical University of Aachen until he had to go to the First World War as a soldier in 1914 . On June 11, 1915, he was reported in a casualty list as "slightly injured in an accident".

It was not until 1919 that he was able to continue his architecture studies at the Technical University of Hanover and finish with the main diploma examination. From 1923 to 1929 he was employed by the city of Cologne , and from 1925 he lived in the house at Konradstrasse 5. In 1929 and 1930 he was an employee of the city of Berlin . With his dissertation The Jewish Settlements of the German Cities, A Urban Biological Study , he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD . In 1933 Pinthus emigrated to Palestine . He became a professor of urban planning at the Technion in Haifa.

The author Wolfram Hagspiel assumes that Alexander Pinthus was related to Kurt Pinthus and belonged to the Pinthus family, whose members also included the co-owners of the Nordhausen department store Pinthus & Ahlfeld.

Fonts

• Studies on the structural development of the Judengassen in German cities. In: Journal for the History of the Jews in Germany , 2, 1930, pp. 101–130; 3, 1930, pp. 197-217 ( online at 1848.ub.uni-ffm.de ); 4, 1931, pp. 284-300.
• A suggestion for analyzing development plans. 1962.

literature

• Wolfram Hagspiel: Cologne and its Jewish architects. JP Bachem, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , p. 347.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German loss lists Pr. 246, June 11, 1915, p. 6896 ( online at des.genealogy.net )