Max Fraenkel

This article deals with the architect Max Fraenkel. For the philologist, see Max Fränkel .

Max Fraenkel (* 1856 in Rybnik , Upper Silesia ; † 1926 in Berlin ) was a German architect and government master builder with the main sphere of activity in Berlin.

Life

Max Fraenkel and his younger brother James Fraenkel were among the twelve children of Rabbi Daniel Fraenkel. Max moved to Berlin with James and lived in what is now the Berlin-Lankwitz district . After his training as an architect, he was able to realize residential buildings and especially buildings for hospitals in the entire Berlin area.

Work (selection)

The ruins of the former Israelite hospital in 2009

• Home of his brother James in Berlin-Lankwitz near the Berolinum sanatorium , Siemensstrasse 68-69 ( destroyed in the night of bombing in Lankwitz in 1943 )
• 1899–1900: Apartment building, shops, private sanatorium in Charlottenburg , Meinekestrasse 10
• 1904: On the corner property at Wilhelmsplatz in Steglitz (Villa Friedrichstrasse 1/2, today Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10), Max Fraenkel was able to build a bizarre-romantic villa on behalf of the physician Karl von den Steinen . This building changed hands frequently and was also used by the NSDAP during the Nazi era . In 1943 it was hit by an incendiary bomb and thus completely destroyed. Today there is an institute building of the Meteorological Faculty of the Free University of the architects Fehling and Gogel with an iron observation tower.
• 1908–1909: Private clinic for the Jewish gynecologist Paul Straßmann in Berlin-Mitte , Schumannstraße 18 (Ensemble Marienstraße 1–32, in the vicinity of the Deutsches Theater ), built in place of a previous residential building. The sculptures (reliefs depicting a nursing woman, a convalescent mother and a scholar) were made by the Austro-Hungarian sculptor Sandor Járay . Max Fraenkel achieved by combining Art Nouveau elements with Renaissance decorations a high stately appearance of the maternity hospital . The portal is based on Greek antiquity. On the gable is the coat of arms with the initials of the gynecologist and builder (PS) in the form of a staff of Aesculapia. After the First World War , Straßmann acquired the neighboring house (Schumannstrasse 17) from 1831 and had it converted for teaching purposes and scientific research according to plans by Max Fraenkel. After the Second World War , various administrations were in these buildings, but they did not contribute to the preservation of the building fabric. At the beginning of the 21st century, both buildings were renovated, house number 18 now serves as the headquarters for the Association of Private Doctors' VerrechnungsStellen e. V. Since 2006 there has been an exhibition of modern Israeli art in the ground floor rooms called "Artneuland Berlin", a branch of Artneuland Tel Aviv. There is also a palliative care facility.
• Conversion of the Israelite Hospital in Berlin-Mitte, Torstrasse  146 / Linienstraße 86, built in 1884. This building has been empty since the 2000s and is in ruins.

literature

• Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (Ed.): District Mitte, district Mitte. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Berlin ). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-80-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List , accessed on November 6, 2012
2. ^ Myra Warhaftig : German Jewish architects before and after 1933. The lexicon. 500 biographies. Reimer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-496-01326-5 .
3. ↑ James Fraenkel. In: Dietmar Strauch : Adagio - Feld O. Biographical research at the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee. Edition Progris, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-88777-015-0 , pp. 85–87, (p. 85 online; PDF; 729 kB) ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der 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. ↑ Architectural monuments: Ensemble Meinekestraße 3–10
5. ^ Online preprint of a book by Andreas Grothusen “DIE DORT DROBEN. People and houses of the Steglitzer Fichtenberg ” ( memento of the original from November 10, 2007 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. , ISBN 3-926578-39-4 
6. ↑ Architectural monument of the private clinic Professor Straßmann
7. ↑ Information from the Steglitz district office on Paul Strassmann's grave of honor (PDF document); accessed on May 11, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ Ruprecht Hammerschmidt: Painting instead of stucco. One of the oldest houses in Berlin has been extensively renovated. LIVING IN BERLIN - EPISODE 24; Article in the Berliner Zeitung of October 11, 2003; Retrieved March 18, 2009
9. ↑ Information on private health insurance
10. ↑ Information on the new art gallery in Schumannstrasse, accessed on March 18, 2009
11. ↑ homepage elysion Palliative Care GmbH; accessed on March 18, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Architectural monument: Israelite hospital