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Bleibtreustraße
Bleibtreustraße, or Bleibtreustrasse (see ß), is a street in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. History Bleibtreustraße starts at Lietzenburger Straße, crosses Kurfürstendamm, Mommsenstraße, Kantstraße and ends at Pestalozzistraße. It is connected to the neighboring Savignyplatz via the Else-Ury-Bogen, and the S-Bahn station of the same name can be reached from Bleibtreustraße by elevator Initially, the street was simply called Straße 12a in the Abt. V development plan until August 20, 1897, when it was named after the painter and graphic artist Georg Bleibtreu, who lived in the parallel Knesebeckstraße until his death in October 1892. It is considered to be in a "posh" area and has many shops and restaurants. Bleibtreustraße and the Holocaust Before the Nazis rose to power in 1933, about a third of Berlin's 160,000 Jews lived in western Charlottenburg district around Bleibtreustrasse. They tended to be middle-class professional families that were so wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotthard Laske
Gotthard Laske (March 3, 1882 in Stargard – November 23, 1936 in Berlin) was a German confectioner, bibliophile, and patron of the arts. Life Laske collected books that were beautifully and lavishly printed and bound. His library contained about 10,000 volumes. In addition, he collected paintings and prints. He remunerated artists with suits and other garments, which he had custom-made in his company. Laske encouraged the printing of many poems at the Officina Serpentis and paid the production costs. Likewise, he donated many prints to the members of the bibliophile societies to which he belonged. He was particularly interested in collecting books, manuscripts and drawings by Paul Scheerbart. On Laske's fiftieth birthday, the Berlin Fontane Evening had a capriccio printed by Josef Maria Frank about this, in which Laske's hunt for a Scheerbart manuscript is described. Nazi persecution When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Laske was persecuted because he was Jewish. Laske too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
