Georg Graf (architect)

Georg Graf (born April 23, 1869 in Munich ; † November 24, 1942 there ) was a German architect and painter .

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After attending school, Graf studied at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich , at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1887–1892) and at the Technical University of Munich .

He was artistically active from 1891 to 1937. After repeatedly working abroad in phases in his younger years, he settled permanently in Munich in 1910. His most important works as an architect include the Grand Hotel in Rovereto and the extension of the Hotel Meraner Hof in Merano . As a painter, Graf created portraits, history and genre pictures, as well as decorative paintings. He worked as an illustrator for the magazines Moderne Kunst , Für alle Welt and Über Land und Meer .

Politically, Graf joined the NSDAP in 1921 ( membership number 5.008). At the same time he became a member of the SA, which was established for the first time (storm number 4.263). As an SA man, Graf took part in most of the battles in the hall between 1921 and 1923, which the Munich National Socialists fought with their political opponents in the assembly halls and breweries of the Bavarian capital in the early phase of the party. Since 1922 he was the VI. Company of the Munich SA Regiment assigned.

On November 8 and 9, 1923, Graf took part in the Hitler putsch as a member of the Munich SA regiment . After the failure of this attempt by the National Socialists to usurp state power, Graf temporarily took the so-called blood flag into custody in his apartment in order to prevent the authorities from accessing it. After it was handed over to Hitler in 1925, it developed into one of the most important political relics within the "myth" with which the newly founded NSDAP surrounded the failed coup in its propaganda and transfigured it into a "national feat".

At first, Graf did not rejoin the newly founded NSDAP. Only at the end of 1932 did he apply for membership again and was re-accepted in 1933 (membership number 1.508.416).

Graf spent the last years of his life in great material need. Due to old age and several serious illnesses, he was no longer able to work, so that he had to rely on support from third parties. In addition to grants from the artists' emergency fund, Graf received several large donations from the "Künstlerdank" donation fund of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP before he was granted a permanent monthly allowance from 1941 onwards.

Buildings and designs

• Administrator house in Munich
• 16 small houses in three blocks in Pasing
• Grand Hotel in Rovereto
• Extension of the Hotel Meraner Hof in Merano
• List department store in Munich

literature

• Rainer Orth : The case of the Hitler putschist Heinrich Trambauer. In: Historical communications from the Ranke Society. Volume 25, 2012, pp. 208-236.
• Hans Wolfgang Singer (Hrsg.): General Artists Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. Volume 5 (section “Supplements”) 1921, p. 113 f.