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Semmy Engel (born February 19, 1864 in Hamburg , † 1948 in London ) was a German-Jewish architect .
Life
Engel received his training after an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in the building trade schools in Hamburg and Eckernförde . After working in various construction offices and with an architect, he opened his own office in Hamburg in 1889. His son Bernd also became an architect and joined his father's office in the late 1920s. In 1936, Semmy Engel was banned from working as a Jew by the National Socialists . In 1938 he followed his son into exile in London, who had emigrated there in 1935.
plant
Engel was responsible for the designs for numerous new buildings and conversions of apartment buildings and villas in the Hamburg districts of Harvestehude , Rotherbaum , St. Pauli and Eppendorf . He was one of the busiest architects in Hamburg. Engel built several synagogues for Jewish clients, for example in 1904 the association synagogue of the "United Old and New Klaus ". In the same year he submitted a design for the construction of the new representative main synagogue, the Bornplatz synagogue . This was realized, combined with a second design by Ernst Friedheim; the synagogue was inaugurated in 1906. Further synagogues followed in Hoheluftchaussee (1909), Gluckstraße in Barmbek (1920) and Kielortallee (1929).
Engel carried out renovations on the Henry Jones Lodge building on Hartungstrasse (1904), the chapel at the Langenfelde cemetery (1911) and the morgue at the Ohlsdorf Jewish cemetery (1919). In 1928/1929 he and his son designed the “Sophieneck” residential complex in Harvestehude in the New Building style . A Bauhaus- style facility designed with his son and Hermann Rickert in Lokstedt was completed in 1931.
literature
- Jürgen Sielemann: Semmy Engel. In: Kirsten Heinsohn : The Jewish Hamburg. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0004-0 , p. 71.
- Myra Warhaftig : German Jewish Architects before and after 1933. The Lexicon. Reimer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-496-01326-5 , pp. 124f. (Bernd Engel) and p. 127 (Semmy Engel).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Angel, Semmy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Jewish architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1948 |
| Place of death | London |