Georg Falck

This article deals with the architect and contractor Georg Falck. For other people see Georg Falk .

Georg Falck (born August 10, 1878 in Landeck , West Prussia, † May 22, 1947 in New York ) was a German architect and building contractor of the Jewish faith.

Life

Georg Falck was born the son of a wealthy dyer. After training in Berlin and working in various architecture firms, he set up his own business in Cologne in 1907 .

He later became in-house architect for the department store company Leonhard Tietz AG . In this capacity he designed at least twenty department store or department store buildings ; Almost all branches were also converted by him. Some of them were carried out by his construction company, the Rheinische Bauunternehmung .

Georg Falck was a versatile architect and businessman who had numerous of his commercial buildings, settlements, apartment buildings and villa developments built and marketed by his own companies. His work, comprising a total of more than 200 buildings and plans, still sets the tone for the district, especially in his home town of Cologne.

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Falck was one of the first Cologne residents to be forced to emigrate due to his ties to the Tietz department store group, which was renamed Westdeutsche Kaufhof AG at the beginning of the “Third Reich” as part of the Aryanization process . He went to the Netherlands with his family, but also lived temporarily in France and Belgium. The intended emigration to the USA was thwarted by the loss of the exit papers during the bombing of Rotterdam . Years of fear in hiding places in Amsterdam followed. The family only started their journey to the USA two years after the end of the war. A few weeks after his arrival, the weakened Falck died in a New York hospital.

In Cologne (Porz) the Georg-Falck-Weg was named after him.

Buildings and drafts (incomplete)

Office and commercial building, Brückenstrasse 17, Cologne

(left) Tietz department store, Frankfurt am Main, Zeil 116-122

• 1909–1910: Jewish orphanage " Abraham-Frank-Haus " in Cologne-Braunsfeld , Aachener Straße 443 (heavily changed after war damage)
• before 1914: Agrippinahaus, Breite Str. in Cologne
• before 1914: Group of terraced houses on Arnulfstrasse and Remigiusstrasse in Cologne-Sülz
• 1914: Office and commercial building (former Salomon department store; from 1933 Modeunion), Brückenstraße 17 in Cologne
• 1912: Leonhard Tietz's rest home in Daun (Eifel)
• 1922–1924: Villa group Am Südpark 49/51 and Rondorfer Str. 5 in Cologne-Marienburg
• 1924–1925: Draft of a bridgehead development for the Deutz Bridge on Heumarkt in Cologne (high-rise project; with Fritz Schumacher )
• 1925: Competition design for a star tower on the Rhine for a bridgehead development for the Deutz Bridge on Heumarkt in Cologne (with Willy Felten)
• since 1925: numerous shops and commercial buildings for Ehape Einheitspreis-Handelsgesellschaft (renamed Kaufhalle AG in 1937 )
• before 1927: residential group in Cologne-Klettenberg (with Peter Prevoo)
• before 1927: Execution draft for a commercial building in S. (with Peter Prevoo)
• 1929: Tietz department store in Solingen
• 1930: Design for a Tietz department store in Breslau (not carried out)
• 1930: Israelite youth home in Cologne-Sülz
• 1930–31: Extension and redesign of the Tietz department store, Zeil 116-122, Frankfurt am Main

literature

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life of Georg Falck
2. ↑ ^{a b} Modern designs . Issue 6/1914
3. ^ Hiltrud Kier : List of monuments Cologne old town and Deutz . Ed .: State Conservator Rhineland . tape 12.1 . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0455-2 .
4. ↑ The builder. 11th year 1913, issue 5.
5. ↑ Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture. Issue 10/1926.
6. ↑ ^{a b building} control room. Balduin Pick publishing house, Cologne, 1927.
7. ^ Draft (section and floor plan) in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin