Stephan Prager

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Stephan Prager (born June 28, 1875 in Liegnitz ; † May 29, 1969 in Düsseldorf ; full name: Stephan Friedrich Prager ) was a German architect and Prussian construction clerk . Prager was a survivor of the Holocaust .

Life

Stephan Prager, son of the factory owner and prime lieutenant Felix Prager, attended grammar school and Wilhelmschule in Liegnitz. After moving to Berlin in 1892, he graduated from high school there in 1895 . He then studied architecture , philosophy and art history at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt and the Technische Hochschule (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . He became a member of Corps Hassia Darmstadt in the winter semester of 1895/96 . In building construction, he passed the first state examination in 1899 and then worked as a trainee lawyer in the state building administration. In 1903 he was subsequently awarded the academic degree of Diplom-Ingenieur , which was only introduced in 1900 . In 1905, after having passed the 2nd state examination, he was appointed government architect ( assessor in public construction) and, in addition to his professional activity, attended lectures and lectures at the technical university. He received his doctorate in 1911 at the University of Erlangen with the dissertation Architecture in the Light of Aesthetic-Systematic Development Principles for Dr. phil.

In 1913 he was appointed technical attaché to the Consul General in New York . After the outbreak of the First World War, Prager returned to Germany voluntarily , although he was exempt from military service. He fell into British captivity , from which he was released on November 3, 1914. After his return to the German Reich, he signed up for military service and fought as a lieutenant in the artillery on the western front from January 1915 . As a captain, he was in charge of a field howitzer battery from 1916 . After the Battle of Arras he was again taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released in November 1919 as a major in the reserve. Prager was awarded the Iron Cross I and II Class, the Order of Military Merit with Swords, the Badge for Wounded and the Cross of Honor for Frontline Soldiers.

From 1920 he was again active as a government and building officer in the civil service. In 1922 he was one of the first members of the Free German Academy of Urban Development (later DASL). His appointment to the upper government and building councilor took place in Merseburg in 1925 , where he set up state planning for the narrower central German industrial district . The provincial administration of the Rhine Province appointed him in 1927 to develop the regional planning there. In 1929, Prager founded the working group of German regional planners . From 1935 to 1936 he was involved in settlement matters in the course of the reintegration of the Saarland into the German Reich .

In 1936 the provincial administration of the Rhine Province of Prager dismissed his civil service. After that he was persecuted by the Gestapo . Due to his Jewish origins, Prager was deported from Düsseldorf to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he arrived on July 23, 1942. Prager was considered a so-called prominent prisoner in Theresienstadt and worked there as a civil engineer. On May 8, 1945, Prager in Theresienstadt was liberated by the Red Army .

Then the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia appointed him ministerial director and head of state planning. In 1949 he became the first president of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (DASL). The RWTH Aachen and Hannover Technical University awarded him an honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E. h.). In addition, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia appointed him professor . He was made an honorary member of the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . In 1952, Prager received the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (in 1965 also the star). In 1965, Prager was still involved in the concise dictionary for spatial research and spatial planning of the Academy for spatial research and regional planning . He died in Düsseldorf at the end of May 1969.

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literature

  • Axel Feuss: The Theresienstadt convolute . Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-935549-22-9 .
  • Peter Knoch: From mission statement to argument. Concepts and instruments of spatial planning in the Federal Republic of Germany 1960–1990 and the activities of the Institute for Urban Development and Housing (ISW) of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (DASL). Dissertation, University of Dortmund 1999. [1]

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Stephan Prager: The architecture in the light of aesthetic-systematic development principles. Dissertation, University of Erlangen 1911, p. 75f.
  2. ↑ a b c Peter Knoch: From model to argument. Concepts and instruments of spatial planning in the Federal Republic of Germany 1960–1990. Dortmund 1999, p. 307.
  3. ^ Corps Hassia Darmstadt. 1840-1955. List of members of Hassia-Darmstadt. 1955, pp. 58/59.
  4. ^ Stephan Prager: Architecture in the light of aesthetic-systematic development principles. Dissertation, University of Erlangen 1911, title page.
  5. ↑ a b c d Axel Feuss: The Theresienstadt convolute. Hamburg, Munich 2002, p. 62f.
  6. ^ Short entry Stephan Prager in the Theresienstadt bundle
personal data
SURNAME Prager, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prager, Stephan Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, Prussian construction officer, survivor of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1969
Place of death Dusseldorf