Jindřich Freiwald
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Jindřich Freiwald (born June 6, 1890 in Hronov , † May 8, 1945 in Prague ) was a Czech architect .
Life
Jindřich Freiwald attended the building trade school in Prague and from 1910 was assistant to the architect Antonín Balšánek , with whom he worked on furnishing the Prague Municipal House ( Obecní dům ). From 1913 he studied architecture with Jan Kotěra at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In 1921 he and Jaroslav Böhm founded a construction company in Prague-Karlín , which built several settlements with houses and villas in the Prague districts of Smíchov and Dejvice as well as in Kolín , Opava and Pardubice . There are also several bank buildings, including in Železný Brod , Červený Kostelec , Česká Skalice , Dobruška , Dvůr Králové , Strakonice , Sobotka and Sušice . For his hometown of Hronov he designed the theater and the building of the city museum. Other theaters were built in Chrudim and Kolín. He also built factory buildings for the aircraft manufacturer Aero and the Aero cinema in Prague.
Shortly before the end of the war, Jindřich Freiwald was murdered by the National Socialists on May 8, 1945 during the Prague uprising . His body was first buried on May 11, 1945 in the cemetery in the Braník district of Prague. At the end of August 1945 he was reburied in the Hronov cemetery as part of the 15th “Jiráskův Hronov” festival.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freiwald, Jindřich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hronov |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1945 |
| Place of death | Prague |