Manfred Faber

Manfred Faber (born October 26, 1879 in Karlsruhe ; † May 15, 1944 murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German architect .

Life

Manfred Faber came from a Karlsruhe merchant family and had three sisters. He studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe initially Electrical Engineering and Architecture . In 1903 he moved first to Düsseldorf, where one of his sisters lived, and in 1914 to Cologne. There, after the death of the architect Hermann Eberhard Pflaume in 1921, he took over his "Atelier for Architecture and Applied Arts". His early works were still traditional, while in the second half of the 1920s he was one of the representatives of the New Building . He became one of the most important architects of the municipal housing association GAG . He was close friends with the Hanstein couple, owners of the Cologne art auction house Lempertz , for whom he rebuilt and expanded their company building on Neumarkt in Cologne in 1933/34 . Previously, he had already carried out orders for exhibition and interior design for Lempertz.

After 1935, Faber, who was unmarried, was forcibly committed to the “ghetto house” in Cäcilienstraße because of his Jewish origins and later transferred to the Cologne exhibition center. From there he was in July 1942, first to Theresienstadt and on 15 May 1944 to Auschwitz deported , where he was murdered on the same day. Two of his sisters were also deported and are considered missing. The third sister emigrated to Argentina.

Work as an architect

House in the Cologne fairytale settlement

Naumannsiedlung in Cologne-Riehl

Faber's most extensive work is the construction of factories and a housing estate for Erftwerk AG in Grevenbroich in 1916/17. From 1922 to 1929 the fairytale settlement , planned by Faber and Wilhelm Riphahn , was built in the course of the city expansion south of Bergisch-Gladbacher Strasse in the Cologne districts of Holweide and Dellbrück . The settlement consists of 181 single-family houses. The name is intended to express the residential reform idea of ​​"living like in a fairy tale", with fairytale street names and small alleys. The settlement implemented ideals of the garden city movement coming from England , the aim of which was to create sufficient living space for working-class families with a garden in which the families could grow vegetables and keep small animals.

From 1928 Faber was involved in the planning of the Naumannsiedlung , named after the founder of modern ornithology, Johann Friedrich Naumann , in Cologne-Riehl , other architects of this settlement were Otto Scheib , Fritz Fuß and Hans Heinz Lüttgen . He also planned multi-family houses along the Höninger Weg in Cologne-Zollstock (1927/1928), houses in the so-called "Professoren-Siedlung" in Cologne-Marienburg (1921/1922) and numerous other residential and office buildings, especially in Cologne. In 1926 he submitted a design for the Mülheimer Brücke , but it was not selected and implemented after a competition.

Faber was a member of the Cologne-based Architects and Engineers Association from 1918, and in 1936 he was excluded for racial reasons. He was also a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) and the German Werkbund (DWB).

Honors

As part of the exhibition “Cologne and its Jewish Architects” 2010 in the Nazi Documentation Center , Faber was honored as one of around 50 Jewish architects in Cologne.

A street in the Cologne district of Porz-Elsdorf has been named after him since 2006.

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Buildings (selection)

Villa Klute in Iserlohn

• 1916/1917: Erftwerk AG factories in Grevenbroich
• 1919–1921: Erftwerk AG “Wohnsiedlung Erftwerk” in Grevenbroich (only partially realized)
• 1921–1922: Single-family houses in Cologne-Marienburg
• 1922–1929: Fairytale settlement in Cologne-Dellbrück and Cologne-Holweide (together with Wilhelm Riphahn)
• 1927–1928: Apartment buildings in Cologne-Zollstock
• 1928–1930: Apartment buildings in the Naumannsiedlung of the GAG ​​in Cologne-Riehl , Boltensternstrasse 111–131 / Stammheimer Strasse 171–175 (with Hans Heinz Lüttgen)
• 1930: Villa Klute for the manufacturer Karl Klute in Iserlohn

Fonts

• Cheap small apartments. A suggestion. Cologne 1918.

literature

• Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne and its Jewish architects. JP Bachem, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , pp. 57-99.

Web links

Commons : Märchensiedlung  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} community sheet of the synagogue community Cologne , December 2006 to January 2007, p. 26 (PDF file; 516 kB)
2. ↑ Josef Hanstein was imprisoned for a long time in the cellar of the EL-DE house by the Gestapo in 1942 for being “too friendly towards Jews” , but was released again through contacts with influential personalities.
3. ↑ bilderbuch-koeln.de ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2011 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. 
4. ↑ holweide-bv.de ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2011 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. 
5. ↑ Annual report 2008 of GAG Immobilien AG (PDF; 88 kB)
6. ↑ community sheet of the synagogue community Cologne , December 2006 to January 2007, p. 27 (PDF file; 2.10 MB)
7. ^ "Cologne and its Jewish architects" at www.koelnarchitektur.de
8. ↑ Klute joined the NSDAP in 1933 . See: Volker Jakob (Ed.): Columns and scenes. National Socialism in Film. Iserlohn 1933–1939. (Supplement to the film) Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-939974-08-6 , p. 12. (online as a PDF document with approx. 1.09 MB)
9. ^ Jost Schäfer: New building in Westphalia. Houses of the modern movement in the province. In: Denkmalpflege in Westfalen-Lippe ( ISSN  0947-8299 ), 16th year 2010, issue 2 (online as a PDF document with approx. 5.54 MB) , p. 48f.