Gustav Bauer (architect)

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Gustav Bauer (born March 2, 1876 in Spandau near Berlin , † after 1938) was a German architect of Jewish origin.

life and work

The Berlin architects Gustav Bauer and Siegfried Friedländer (1879–1942) built the Jonass department store (now Soho House Berlin) in 1928/1929 on the corner of Torstrasse and Prenzlauer Allee in the Pankow district, Prenzlauer Berg . After completing his training as an architect, Bauer initially lived at Gneisenaustrasse 27, Berlin SW 29; soon after, however, in Berlin-Mitte (C 2), An der Spandauer Brücke 12. Finally, in the 1920s, he moved to Flensburger Strasse 16, NW 23 (today Berlin-Hansaviertel ). He was able to purchase a piece of land in the villa district of Grunewald and built a modern two-story house there, which was ready to move into from 1930 (Trabener Straße 49).

Gustav Bauer is also said to have supplied the construction plans for a synagogue in the Jewish old people's home in Berlin-Mitte. The structure was destroyed in World War II.

His house on Trabener Strasse served from March 1933 to the end of 1934 as a meeting place for members of the Jungbanner under Alfred Neu (1906–1982), who distributed illegal leaflets against the Nazi regime. Gustav Bauer was arrested on August 17, 1938 and taken to Buchenwald concentration camp . The National Socialists declared his German citizenship invalid in 1940. His further fate has not yet been clarified.

His business partner Siegfried Friedländer, also of Jewish origin, fared no different during the Nazi era. He and his whole family were taken from the houses in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and deported to concentration camps. Friedländer was murdered in the Riga ghetto in 1942 . A stumbling block that was laid in 2010 reminds of this .

literature

  • Myra Warhaftig: German Jewish architects before and after 1933. Das Lexikon; 500 biographies . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-496-01326-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bauer, Gustav; Architect . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1905, part 1, p. 109. "C2, An der Spandauer Brücke 12".
  2. ^ Bauer, Gustav; Architect . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, part 1, p. 109. "C2, An der Spandauer Brücke 12".
  3. ^ Bauer, Gustav; Architect . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, part 1, p. 128. "NW 23, Flensburger Strasse 16".
  4. ^ Bauer, Gustav; Construction work . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, part 1, p. 130. “Grunewald, Trabener Straße 49”.
  5. ↑ Information in connection with an architectural tour in 2012 ( memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 203 kB) Society for Research into the Life and Work of German-speaking Jewish Architects; Retrieved August 20, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.juedische-architekten.de
  6. ↑ Felicitas Bothe von Richthofen: Resistance in Wilmersdorf . German Resistance Memorial Center (Ed.), Berlin 1993, pp. 70–71.
  7. ↑ Bundesarchiv (Ed.): The list of Jewish residents in the German Reich 1933–1945 , 2013 edition, database in the US Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC, USA.
  8. ↑ Germany, Index of Jews Whose German Nationality was Annulled by Nazi Regime, 1935-1944 . Accessible through ancestry.com
  9. ^ Stumbling block Siegfried Friedländer
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Spandau
DATE OF DEATH 20th century