Germain Debre

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Germain Debré (* 1890 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ; † May 15, 1948 ) was a Jewish architect who was the official architect of the Consistoire Paris and who built synagogues in Paris .

family

Germain Debré is the son of the great rabbi Simon Debré (1854–1939) and brother of the well-known doctor Robert Debré (1882–1978).

Life

Delayed by the First World War , Germain Debré graduated in architecture in 1920. In the 1920s he became an employee of Lucien Hesse , whose successor as the official architect of the Consistoire de Paris he was in November 1929, when he died. Commissioned by the Association cultuelle israélite de Paris (ACIP), he built the synagogues Belleville (1930), La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire (1935), Montmartre and expanded the synagogue in Neuilly-sur-Seine (1937). Debré created new forms that were previously not used in synagogue architecture. The synagogue in the Belleville district of Paris is built like a terrace, made of reinforced concrete, and is more reminiscent of a school than a place of worship.

Debré received several orders from the State Commissariat à l'énergie atomique for the construction of laboratories .

The Synagogue of Neuilly; on the left the facade from the 19th century and on the right the facade after the renovation in the 20th century

Buildings

literature

  • Dominique Jarrassé: Guide du patrimoine juif parisien . Parigrams, Paris 2003, ISBN 978-2-84096-247-2 .
  • Jean Colson / Marie-Christine Lauroa (eds.): Dictionnaire des monuments de Paris . Editions Hervas, Paris 2003 (1st edition 1992), ISBN 2-84334-001-2 , pp. 153, 179, 364–365, 486, 773.

Web links

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