[Architecture] Schumacher, F. (1869-1947). Irren-Anstalt, Friedrichsberg

Situationsplan. Hamburg, H. Friedrich, ca. 1912. Col. lithogr. plan, 76 x 83 cm.* With: (2) Construction drawings for Gewerbershaus Holstenwall (Hamburg), 1913. Three lithogr. sheets, all approx. 50 x 70 cm. All w. stamp Technische Hochschule Hannover and w. central fold. (2) : (3) Seven drawings of interior designs for the Irrenanstalt Friedrichsberg, in pencil on carbon paper. Ca. 1912.

Fritz Schumacher was the building director of Hamburg from 1908-1933. His many buildings in the style of the Neue Sachlichkeit drastically changed the city's landscape and still defines many districts of Hamburg today. * The Irren-anstalt with its representative buildings was embedded in a spacious park and exemplary for the old German empire in its high financial and personnel effort required to operate such a psychiatric facility. After the political change in the 1930s the dreadful practices driven by the new political ideologies swiftly took hold and National Socialists started the complete 'Räumung' of the institution in 1934. By 1940 patients were structurally killed in therefore designed centres, since they were a threat to the 'völkischen Erbmasse'.