Germain Debre
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 .
Buildings
- Institut de biologie physico-chimique : 13-19, rue Pierre-et-Marie-Curie ( 5th arrondissement ) - built between 1927 and 1930 with the help of Nicolas Kristy
- Temple israélite de Belleville : 75, rue Julien-Lacroix ( 20th arrondissement ), built in 1930
- Tomb for Zadoc Kahn (Grand Rabbi) in the Montparnasse cemetery , inaugurated on November 30, 1930
- Maison des étudiants suédois in the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris : 17, boulevard Jourdan ( 14th arrondissement ) - built in 1931 together with Peder Clason
- House at 23, rue Miguel-Hildalgo ( 19th arrondissement ): built in 1933
- La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire Synagogue : 10 bis, avenue du Château in La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire , built in 1935
- Montmartre Synagogue : 13, rue Sainte-Isaure ( 18th arrondissement ), inaugurated in 1940
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
- List of buildings by Germain Debré in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French text)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Debre, Germain |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1890 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuilly-sur-Seine |
DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1948 |