Hans Sigmund Jaretzki

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Hans Sigmund Jaretzki (born June 26, 1890 in Berlin ; † 1956 in London ) was a German architect of Jewish denomination.

Life

Hans Sigmund Jaretzki studied architecture in Berlin, Munich and Dresden until 1914 . From 1919 to 1925 he was employed as an architect in Beuthen , Breslau and Dresden. From 1925 to 1933 he worked as a freelance architect in Berlin.

After he was banned from working in 1933, he emigrated to Great Britain via the Netherlands and France. There he got a work permit as an interior designer . He realized furniture designs and interiors for the furniture manufacturer Alexander Davis, London and collaborated with the architect JS Bramwell. From 1936 he planned - again as a freelance architect - private houses, synagogues and factories.

In 1943 Jaretzki was a founding member of the Association of German and Austrian Architects and Engineers The Circle ; In 1946 he became a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). He died in London in 1956.

Buildings and designs (selection)

  • 1925–1927: Apartment building in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , Ilmenauer Straße 2 / 2a (together with Alfred Wiener )
  • 1928: Housing development in Berlin-Pankow , Florastraße 63–64, Dusekestraße 1–8 (together with Alfred Wiener)
  • 1929–1930: Garage with apartments in Berlin-Pankow, Stubbenkammerstraße 7 (together with Alfred Wiener)
  • 1929: Competition design for a synagogue in Berlin
  • 1930: Competition design for the redesign of the Reichskanzlerplatz in Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • 1930: Weissensee settlement of GeWoSüd in Berlin-Weissensee , Jacobsohnstrasse, Pistoriusstrasse 70–77, Seidenberger Strasse 1–14, 20–33 (with Jakobus Goettel, Alfred Wiener and Werner Berndt)
  • 1930: Park-Lichtspiele cinema in Berlin-Steglitz , Albrechtstrasse 49 (conversion 1959 by Gerhard Fritsche )
  • 1931: Gumpert summer house, Rüdersdorf
  • 1932: Residence of the British Ambassador in Berlin
  • 1932: Contribution to the exhibition Houses at Fixed Prices in the Ullsteinhaus, Berlin
  • 1936: Cheshire House Pennsylvania , London
  • 1937–1938: Houses in Netherhall Gardens and Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead , London
  • 1954/1955: Wembley United Synagogue, Forty Avenue, Wembley Park, London

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 49th year 1929
  2. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 50th year 1930
  3. ↑ Bauwelt, Issue 9/1932
personal data
SURNAME Jaretzki, Hans Sigmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1956
Place of death London