Theodor Bursche
Theodor Bursche (also Teodor Bursze) (born May 31, 1893 in Zgierz , Russian Empire , † March 15, 1965 in Warsaw ) was a Polish architect and preservationist. He was a son of the Protestant pastor Ernst Wilhelm Bursche and a half-brother of Bishop Juliusz Bursche .
Bursche graduated from the Architecture Faculty of the Warsaw Technical University (1922), lectured at the Noakowski School of Architecture for Girls and was a board member of the Polish Association of Architects (SARP) . He designed and built the evangelical church in Ruda Pabianicka .
During the Second World War , he and his brothers were arrested by the German authorities and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and the Mauthausen- Gusen concentration camp (quarry). After 1945 he worked in the monument department of the office for the reconstruction of the capital ( Biuro Odbudowy Stolicy , BOS) and then in the workshops for monument preservation (Pracownie Konserwacji Zabytków, PKZ).
Together with the sculptor Stanisław Sikora, he designed the memorial in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in 1955. The boy was buried in the Evangelical-Augsburg Cemetery in Warsaw .
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- Anna Czapska, Bursze Teodor , [in:] Polski słownik biograficzny konserwatorów zabytków , red. Henryk Kondziela, Hanna Krzyżanowska, e.g. 2, Poznań, Wydaw. Poznańskie 2006, ISBN 83-7177-416-8
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lad, Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bursze, Teodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zgierz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1965 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |