Siegfried Seidemann
Siegfried Seidemann (born on January 20, 1879 in Birkenhain (today Piekary Śląskie) , Kingdom of Prussia / OS - died April 9, 1956 in New York ) was a German architect of the Jewish religion, who in 1940 moved from the NSDAP Baden to the French Camp Gurs was deported. He was able to emigrate / flee to the USA in 1942 .
Life
Siegfried Seidemann came to the Grand Duchy of Baden around 1902 ; from the end of 1903 he lived in the house on Brückenstrasse 66 in Heidelberg . From 1909 he was a member of the Jewish community and from 1922 to 1933 a member of its synagogue council . In 1933 he was named as the deputy chairman of the Jewish community in Heidelberg. Seidemann was a member of the Association of German Architects , little is known about the buildings he planned and executed in the Heidelberg area. Before 1911, he designed the twin house at Kleinschmidtstrasse 46–48 and the two villas at Rahmengasse 24 and 26 in Heidelberg.
During the time of National Socialism , he was banned from practicing his profession as a Jew due to the Nuremberg Laws . On October 22, 1940, Siegfried Seidemann was deported to the Gurs camp (Camp de G.) as part of the deportation of the Jews from Baden, later known as the Wagner-Bürckel campaign . From there he was taken to the Les Milles camp, where he was held until December 1941. In January 1942 he was able to emigrate to the USA, where he has lived in New York ever since. Siegfried Seidemann died on April 9, 1956 after a long illness.
Buildings and designs
- 1906/1908: Drafts for the conversion of the Israelite morgue at the Jewish cemetery (Bergfriedhof) in Heidelberg
- 1913: Renovation and expansion of the main synagogue on Große Mantelgasse (on today's Old Synagogenplatz ) in Heidelberg
- 1925: Refurbishment of the Jewish parish hall in Mannheim, M 6 No. 12-14
- 1928: Atzelhof settlement in the Handschuhsheim district (perimeter block development, Rottmannstrasse / Steubenstrasse)
- 1929/1930: Reconstruction of the Klaussynagoge in Mannheim
- around 1930: Renovation of the synagogue in Neidenstein
literature
- Norbert Giovannini, Frank Moraw: Remembered Life. Autobiographical texts on the Jewish history of Heidelberg. Heidelberg 1998, p. 159f
- Barbara Löslein: History of the Heidelberg Synagogues. (= Publications on Heidelberg's old town , issue 26.) Art History Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1992, p. 61 f. (without ISBN)
Web links
- Article at the Heidelberger Geschichtsverein eV about him (accessed 5/2020)
- Synagogue Neidenstein on the website of the Association of Jewish Cultural Heritage in Kraichgau eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Cser u. a .: History of the Jews in Heidelberg. Guderjahn, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-924973-48-2 , p. 374.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seidemann, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birch grove, Upper Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1956 |
| Place of death | New York , USA |