Bruno Kalitzki

Bruno Kalitzki (born December 8, 1890 in Chemnitz , † 1953 in Haifa ) was a German-Israeli architect of Jewish religious affiliation.

Life

Bruno Kalitzki grew up as the eldest son of the Jewish businessman Arno Kalitzki and his wife Anna Kalitzki nee. Wolf, in Chemnitz. In March 1906 he passed the Abitur at the Royal High School in Chemnitz . In 1910 Kalitzki began studying architecture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg in Berlin, which he continued as a one-year volunteer at the Technical University of Dresden after completing his military service and graduating successfully in 1914.

In 1914, when the war broke out, Kalitzki was drafted into the army and returned to Chemnitz in 1918. Together with the architect Walter Naumann , he founded the Naumann & Kalitzki architectural office in Chemnitz. In 1926 the partnership with Naumann was dissolved and Kalitzki then ran his own office with several employees.

In 1933 Kalitzki fled with his Christian wife Margarethe to what was then Palestine and settled in Haifa, where he died in 1953.

Web links

• Record on Bruno Kalitzki in the database of the project Architects in Exile 1933–45 of the Institute for Art and Building History, Department of Art History, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (with partially incorrect family and place names in the section "Buildings / Projects before 1933")