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Siegmund Stiefel (born July 31, 1879 in Hochhausen , † October 1, 1940 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German architect and government master builder . He came from a Jewish family in the Jewish community of Hochhausen and died as a victim of the murders of the sick during the time of National Socialism in the Brandenburg killing center .

Life

Siegmund Stiefel was born the son of a Jewish wine merchant in Hochhausen near Tauberbischofsheim . He grew up in Frankfurt am Main.

He was a government architect in Königsberg and worked as an architect in Fulda in the 1920s. There his brother Edwin was a co-founder and partner in the mechanical engineering company Klein & Stiefel and built the factory buildings, entrepreneurial villas and numerous rental houses for him and his co-partner Wilhelm Klein.

On September 25, 1940 he was out of the Landesheilanstalt Marburg in the sanatorium casting and from there on October 1, 1940 to the killing center in Brandenburg Brandenburg deported . He was killed there that same day.

Works (selection)

  • from 1910: Factory building of the company Klein & Stiefel (An Vierzehnheiligen), sold to Eika candles in 1979
  • 1924: Edwin Stiefel's villa at Kurfürstenstrasse 22. The building is a monument for artistic, scientific and urban planning reasons.
  • 1924/25: Wilhelm Klein's house in neoclassical style. Today a monument for historical and artistic reasons.

  • Former office building Am Vierzehnheiligen (2016)

  • former crane hall Am Vierzehnheiligen (2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Klein: Edwin boots. a Jewish entrepreneur from Fulda in Georg K. Stasch (ed.), Thomas Heiler , Georg Klein: Maschinenbau in Fulda - Klein & Stiefel 1905 - 1979 (book accompanying the exhibition in the Vonderau Museum from January 20 to April 2, 2006), Michael Imhof Verlag, ISBN 3-86568-067-4 , p. 21
  2. ↑ Georg Klein, p. 27
  3. ↑ Georg Klein, p. 23
  4. ↑ Siegmund Stiefel in the Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 (accessed November 16, 2018)
  5. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.) Dieter Griesbach Maisant: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - Hesse - City of Fulda , Friedrich Vieweg & Son, 1992, ISBN 3-528-06244-4 , p. 139
  6. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Hesse (ed.) Dieter Griesbach Maisant: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - Hesse - City of Fulda, Friedrich Vieweg & Son, 1992, ISBN 3-528-06244-4 , p. 97
personal data
SURNAME Boots, Siegmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Hochhausen
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1940
Place of death Brandenburg on the Havel