Richard Landsberg
Richard Carl Landsberg (born December 3, 1873 in Stolberg ; † January 26, 1940 in Spa ) was a German architect .
Life
Richard Landsberg was born as the son of a wealthy hut director of the Stolberger Gesellschaft . He studied architecture at the Technical University of Aachen . After his studies and a legal clerkship , he initially worked as a government builder ( assessor in public construction). From 1918 he worked in Cologne as managing director of the housing association for the Rheinische Braunkohlerevier mbH , for which he planned numerous miners' settlements in Cologne and the surrounding area.
At the beginning of the National Socialist era , Richard Landsberg, who was married to Hedwig Becker, a daughter of the former Cologne Mayor Hermann Becker (known as the Red Becker ), was deprived of all offices due to his Jewish origin. He then moved to Bad Godesberg with his family in 1935 . Three years later he emigrated to Belgium. There he committed suicide shortly before the German Wehrmacht invaded .
buildings
- House Morsdorfer Hof 37 in Cologne-Braunsfeld
- House Aachener Strasse 683 in Cologne-Braunsfeld
Honors
Richard Landsberg was honored as one of around 50 Jewish architects in Cologne as part of the exhibition "Cologne and its Jewish Architects" shown in the Nazi Documentation Center of the City of Cologne in 2010 .
A street in the Cologne district of Porz-Elsdorf has been named after him since 2006.
literature
- Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne and its Jewish architects. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , pp. 323-326.
Web links
- Koelnarchitektur.de
- Community journal of the synagogue community in Cologne. (PDF; 2.2 MB) December 2006 to January 2007, p. 27.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landsberg, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Landsberg, Richard Carl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stolberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1940 |
| Place of death | spa |