Markus Sternlieb
Markus Sternlieb (born February 20, 1877 in Brăila , Romania ; † October 23, 1934 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a Jewish architect , construction clerk and director of the GAG housing company in Ludwigshafen.
Life and work
Markus Sternlieb, son of the Jewish businessman Mayer Sternlieb, completed his studies at the Technical University of Munich from 1897 , then switched to the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1900 , where he graduated with honors after a long break in 1911. The Ludwigshafen recreation home in Trifels near Annweiler (today: Kurhaus Trifels ) , which he designed and built, was the basis for the degree . From 1904 he worked at the building department of the city of Kaiserslautern , but moved to Ludwigshafen in 1905 and began working there as a plan auditor in the building administration. Here he initially took care of making the workers' quarters in Hemshof humane. In 1911 he became a city architect . The Nord Stadthaus was built in 1913 and the Rhine School in 1914. In the same year, Sternlieb became head of the building construction department, from 1920 he was senior construction director and thus responsible for the entire urban construction industry.
When the Gemeinnützige Aktiengesellschaft für Wohnungsbau ( GAG ) was founded in 1920 , Sternlieb became the technical director there - initially on a voluntary basis, then from 1923 on as a full-time employee together with the future Lord Mayor Valentin Bauer .
Markus Sternlieb retired on December 31, 1932 - officially for health reasons. Sternlieb died on October 23, 1934 at the age of 57 in Ludwigshafen. The cause of death was unclear, but there were rumors of a suicide out of desperation over the Nazi persecution. His urn was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Ludwigshafen.
Sternlieb's wife Johanna was deported by the Nazis to the Gurs camp in southern France on October 22, 1940 , but was able to emigrate to the USA with the help of her two daughters Ruth and Eva.
buildings
Markus Sternlieb played a key role in setting up GAG, the municipal real estate company in Ludwigshafen. Large housing projects were developed under his direction. For example, the Ebertsiedlung, built in 1927, was planned holistically - there was a police station, painting studios, a kindergarten, playgrounds with paddling pools, a central laundry and a district heating power station. The apartments were equipped with bathrooms, central heating and fitted kitchens, among other things.
The following structures were built under his leadership:
- 1909–1911 Ludwigshafer rest home for municipal officials Trifels near Annweiler
- 1910 the tram depot
- 1913 the town house north
- 1914 the Rhine School
- 1919 to 1923 the first housing estates for working-class families in the garden city, better known as "Roter und Grüner Hof" and the "Kriegerheimstätten"
- 1923/1924 the Blücherblock in Hemshof
- 1924–1926 the finch nest in Friesenheim
- 1925 the Ebertpark (then Hindenburgpark) as part of the South German garden exhibition
- 1927–1930 the Friedrich-Ebert-Siedlung (then Hindenburgsiedlung)
- 1929/1930 the Westend settlement at the new measuring site
- 1931 the Christian-Weiß-Siedlung in the south part of town, furthermore the Shellhaus and the townhouse Lutherstraße
On September 25, 2002, the city honored the former city building director and GAG boss on the initiative of the former dean Friedhelm Borggrefe with a memorial stone in the courtyard of the Rheinschule, which Mayor Eva Lohse inaugurated. In November 2008, the Ludwigshafen City Museum dedicated an exhibition to him. On June 12, 2017, the Ludwigshafen Building and Land Committee unanimously decided in a public meeting to rename the previous Kurfürstenplatz between Kurfürstenstrasse and Saarlandstrasse to Markus-Sternlieb-Platz.
literature
- Stefan Mörz: The builder of Ludwigshafen. Markus Sternlieb (1877–1934), Ludwigshafen 2011.
Web links
- Inauguration of the memorial stone for Markus Sternlieb ( Memento from May 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Biography and photo on the Wilhelm-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Street naming in the southern district. City of Ludwigshafen am Rhein, accessed on July 8, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sternlieb, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and municipal building officer in Ludwigshafen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brăila |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1934 |
| Place of death | Ludwigshafen am Rhein |