Paul Imberg

Paul Imberg (1877–1962)

Paul Imberg (born May 29, 1877 in Berlin , † July 10, 1962 in Manhattan ( New York City )) was a Jewish German architect .

Life

Paul Imberg was a son of Julius Imberg and his wife, geb. Salinger.

After studying architecture, he first embarked on a career as a construction clerk and completed further practical training as a government building manager ( trainee lawyer in public building administration). In 1904 he passed the 2nd state examination and was appointed government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration). But in 1905 he left at his own request from the civil service and set in Berlin independently . He first set up his office and residence in Charlottenburg near Berlin , from where he moved to Dahlem in 1916 . From 1922 until his flight to Palestine, he lived in his own house at 10 Im schwarz Grund .

Paul Imberg had been with Fanny, born on July 24, 1905, also from Berlin. Loeb (born April 1, 1883), married.

Imberg may have already become a member of the renowned architects and engineers association in Berlin as an architecture student .

Imberg was a member of the Jewish community in Berlin . According to the National Socialist definition (through the Nuremberg Laws ), Imberg was considered a “full Jew”, so he could not become a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and therefore no longer work as an independent architect. Under these circumstances he was forced to leave Germany and fled to Palestine in 1934 or 1935, in his late 50s. He lived there until 1956, i.e. for more than 20 years, and witnessed the establishment of the State of Israel in the British Mandate in 1948 . Little is known about Imberg's activities in Palestine or Israel. In 1956, at the age of 79, Imberg emigrated to the United States , where he died in New York City in 1962 at the age of 85.

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Imberg was occasionally with the architect Leopold Friedmann (born June 3, 1886 in Buenos Aires , † unknown) associated , but also designed alone and isolated in collaboration with the architect Walter Otto Croner (* 1887 in Berlin, † 1936 ibid).

Charlottenburg, Knesebeckstrasse 8–9

Imberg and Friedmann both lived in Berlin-Dahlem. Their only joint project before the First World War was a granary and stables at the Lanckensburg manor on the island of Rügen . In 1911–1912, Imberg rebuilt the apartment building with shops built in 1891 at Knesebeckstrasse 8–9 in Berlin-Charlottenburg . The building has been used as a hotel since the late 1990s.

A joint project by several architects around 1911 was the new building of the merchant's house , Hallesches Ufer 12-13 in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The building contractor Heinrich Mendelssohn was the client of this prestigious commercial building with the facade inscription "National Registrier Kassen Gesellschaft", and Adolf Wollenberg and Emil Schuster are named as architects alongside Paul Imberg . Wollenberg took on the facade design and provided plans for the interior design. The five-story building no longer exists today.

Imberg drew as client and architect for the semi-detached houses and groups of three and five houses built in Berlin-Dahlem between 1912 and 1916 in homeland security style with small front gardens, Schweinfurthstrasse 58–72, Am Erlenbusch 2–10, Rohlffstrasse 5–7 and Schorlemerallee 32–40 responsible. He began building the small settlement in 1912 at his own expense. The differently designed houses form a square . They are plastered in strong colors and provided with lattice windows; their differently shaped roofs are covered with clay tiles.

The building at Am Köllnischen Park 2 / Rungestrasse 30 in Berlin, which was erected and inaugurated in 1913, is today's " House of Psychology " and designed by Imberg together with Walter Croner, whose family apparently owned the property. Until 1933 it served as the union building of the German Woodworkers' Association .

The farm building at Glienicker Strasse 17A in Berlin-Zehlendorf, designed by Imberg from 1920 to 1921, has also been preserved and is a listed building.

In 1922 a semi-detached house in Berlin-Dahlem was completed based on a design by Imberg and Friedmann. The two architects made themselves known in the area with this house. In the following four years until 1926 they built a number of country houses with hipped roofs in the surrounding streets . Often they also designed the interiors of these houses. Most of their clients were Jewish Berliners such as Max Brandenstein (Landhaus Max Brandenstein, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1924), Dr. Robert Loewenthal (Landhaus Dr. Robert Loewenthal, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1925), the opera singer Ernst Lehmann, the director Reinhold Förster and Leonhard Wertheim.

Before 1925, Imberg and Friedmann built the Landhaus Musäusstrasse 4 in Berlin-Dahlem, where Friedmann lived.

Imberg and Friedmann also built outside Berlin, for example a summer house on the island of Sylt in 1923 and a holiday home in Scharfling in Upper Austria in 1925/1926 . They also planned the renovation and new interior design of the Damme bank in Gdansk . The New Synagogue in Danzig-Langfuhr was built from 1926 to 1927, also based on plans by Imberg and Friedmann.

literature

• Bauwelt , 3rd year 1912, issue 42, p. 13.
• Berliner Architekturwelt , 18th year 1916, p. 361 f.
• Decorative art , 23rd year 1920, issue 28, p. 101 f.
• Deutsche Bauhütte , born in 1923, issue 27, p. 148 f.
• Imberg and Friedmann. (= New Architecture ) Berlin 1927.
• Bauwelt , 22nd year 1931, issue 39, p. 1200.
• Myra Warhaftig : You laid the foundation. Life and work of German-speaking Jewish architects in Palestine 1918–1948. Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 1996, p. 379.
• Myra Warhaftig: German Jewish Architects before and after 1933. The Lexicon. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2005. (without information on his work in Palestine or Israel)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Paul Imberg in New York, New York, Death Index, 1949–1965, Manhattan, New York (New York City, All Boroughs), New York, USA, document number 14824 (quoted at www.ancestry.com )
2. ↑ ^{a b} marriage register 1874–1920 at the registry office Berlin IV a, certificate no. 536, serial no. 435, first register (quoted at www.ancestry.com )
3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 24, 1904, No. 53 (from July 2, 1904) ( digitized version ), p. 333.
4. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 25, 1905, No. 79 (from September 30, 1905) ( digitized version ), p. 489.
5. ↑ Directory of members of the 48 associations belonging to the Association of German Architects and Engineers. Julius Springer, Berlin 1914, p. 72.
   (The Architects and Engineers Association in Berlin was for its part a (corporate) member of the Association of German Architects and Engineers Associations (VDAI), which, however, did not accept any individuals as members.)
6. ^ ^{A b} Myra Warhaftig: German Jewish architects before and after 1933. The lexicon. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2005, p. 236.
7. ↑ Myra Warhaftig: You laid the foundation stone. Life and work of German-speaking Jewish architects in Palestine 1918–1948. Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 1996, p. 379.
8. ↑ Row house settlement & Schweinfurthstrasse settlement in the Berlin State Monument List
9. ^ ^{A b} Myra Warhaftig: German Jewish architects before and after 1933. The lexicon. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2005, p. 235.
10. ↑ Tenement house & shops Knesebeckstrasse 8 + 9 in the Berlin State Monument List
11. ↑ Berliner Leben , 12th edition (1911), n. Pag. ( Digitized , p. 190; with a photograph of the facade of the merchant's house facing Halleschen Ufer)
12. ^ A. Wollenberg: Kaufmannshaus Berlin SW., Hallesches Ufer 12-13. Builder: Heinrich Mendelssohn. o. O. (Berlin), o. J. (1911). ( Digitized version )
13. ↑ Row house settlement & Schweinfurthstrasse settlement in the Berlin State Monument List
14. ↑ Address book Berlin 1909
15. ↑ Office building of the German Association of Woodworkers in the Berlin State Monument List
16. ↑ Farm building at Glienicker Strasse 17A in the Berlin State Monument List