Hermann Zvi Guttmann

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Hermann Zvi Guttmann (born September 13, 1917 in Bielitz , Austria-Hungary , † June 23, 1977 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German architect .

Life

Jewish memorial, former Dachau concentration camp

Guttmann's father was an independent businessman in Bielitz, the family was strictly Jewish and religious and spoke German. He studied philosophy and German studies in Krakow from 1938 until the German attack and then fled to Lemberg (Ukraine), which was administered by the Soviets . He had to give up the architecture studies that had begun there in August 1941 and was taken to a labor camp in Siberia with other family members .

From 1946 he waited in vain to leave the country as a displaced person in Pocking . He resumed his architecture studies in the summer semester of 1948, now at the Technical University of Munich , and completed his state examination in the winter semester of 1950/51 . In late 1952 he settled in Frankfurt as an architect. He contributed to the establishment of small Jewish communities: according to his plans, six community centers, three old people's homes, two mourning halls, a children's home, three prayer rooms in existing buildings, two monuments and a few baths ( mikwaot ) were built. He also built residential and commercial buildings.

Guttmann also volunteered as a councilor in Frankfurt and in many Jewish institutions. He died at the age of 59 and was buried in Jerusalem .

family

Guttmann married the pediatrician Gitta Torenberg in April 1952, born on January 1, 1923 in Piotrkow-Tryb, Poland. Gitta Guttmann was a founding member of the WIZO Group in Frankfurt and was its chairman or board member from 1958 to 1998 and Vice President of WIZO Germany from 1960 to 1991.

Works

The mourning hall at the Jewish cemetery in Hanover-Bothfeld shows a recurring element in Guttmann's designs: the mathematically founded parable .

buildings

Monuments

  • 1967: Memorial on the grounds of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site

Fonts

  • From Temple to Community Center / Synagogues in Post-War Germany , ed. by Sophie Remmlinger and Klaus Hofmann, Athenäum, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-610-00425-8

literature

  • Alexandra Klei: Jewish building in post-war Germany. The architect Hermann Zvi Guttmann. Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95808-116-1

Web links

Commons : Hermann Zvi Guttmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data of Hermann Zvi Guttmann in: Who's Who in Germany - The German Who's Who. 5th edition. Who's Who Book & Publishing, Ottobrunn 1974, ISBN 3-921220-05-X , p. 560.
  2. ↑ Baunetz on the 100th birthday , accessed on March 25, 2018
  3. ↑ Biographical data of Hermann Zvi Guttmann in: So much departure was never--: New synagogues and Jewish communities in the Ruhr area: opportunities for integration and dialogue , by Jürgen Boebers-Süssmann, Hentrich & Hentrich, 2011, page 48
  4. ↑ standard data entry (GND 124,419,321 ) of the German National Library . Query date: December 17, 2016.
  5. ↑ Dr. Gitta Guttmann talks about WIZO on YouTube , accessed on March 25, 2018
  6. ↑ Jüdische Allgemeine: A place in the sun ... (see section "Literature")
  7. ↑ a b Gerd Weiß: Bothfeld , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 2 , vol. 10.2, Friedr, Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 71ff., Here: p. 73; P. 16; as well as annex list of architectural monuments acc. § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation, status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 16)
personal data
SURNAME Guttmann, Hermann Zvi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielitz
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1977
Place of death Frankfurt am Main