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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] |
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Laske is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ernst Laske (1915–2004), German-Israeli book antiquarian and bibliophile * Gabi Laske * Gotthard Laske (1882–1936), German confectioner, bibliophile and patron of the arts * Oskar Laske (de) * Otto Laske * Laske (Ralbitz-Rosenthal) (), Ralbitz-Rosenthal * Laske Hundred (sv), Sweden. See List of hundreds of Sweden See also * Łask, Lask (other) * Łaska, Laska * Łaski, Laski (other), Lasky Lasky is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Art Lasky (1909–1980), American heavyweight professional boxer * Bette Lasky (born 1947), American politician; New Hampshire state senator and former state representative * David Lask ... * Lasker (other) {{surname Slavic-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stolperstein Bleibtreustr 25 (Charl) Nelly Laske
A (; plural ) is a concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'. The project, initiated by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, aims to commemorate persons at the last place that they chose freely to reside, work or study (with exceptions possible on a case-by-case basis) before they fell victim to Nazi terror, forced euthanasia, eugenics, deportation to a concentration or extermination camp, or escaped persecution by emigration or suicide. , 100,000 have been laid, making the project the world's largest decentralized memorial. The majority of commemorate Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Others have been placed for Sinti and Romani people (then also called "gypsies"), Poles, homosexuals, the physically or mentally disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses, black people, members of the Communist Party, the Social Democratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Scheerbart
Paul Karl Wilhelm Scheerbart (8 January 1863, Danzig – 15 October 1915, Berlin) was a German author of speculative fiction literature and drawings. He was also published under the pseudonym ''Kuno Küfer'' and is best known for the book ''Glasarchitektur'' (1914). Scheerbart was associated with expressionist architecture and one of its leading proponents, Bruno Taut. He composed aphoristic poems about glass for Taut's Glass Pavilion at the Werkbund Exhibition (1914). Life Paul Scheerbart began studies of philosophy and history of art in 1885. In 1887 he worked as a poet in Berlin and tried to invent perpetual motion machines. In 1892 he was one of the joint founders of the ''Verlag deutscher Phantasten'' (Publishers of German Fantasists). At this time he was in financial difficulties. After writing in different publications he produced his first novel ''Die große Revolution'' (''The Great Revolution''), which was published by the Insel Verlag. The young Ernst Rowo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 Nazi concentration camps, concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of #Auschwitz I, Auschwitz I, the main camp (''Stammlager'') in Oświęcim; #Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers, #Auschwitz III, Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a Arbeitslager, labour camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben, and List of subcamps of Auschwitz, dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' final solution, Final Solution to the Jewish question. After Germany Causes of World War II#Invasion of Poland, initiated World War II by Invasion of Poland, invading Poland in September 1939, the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) converted Auschwitz I, an army barracks, into a prisoner-of-war camp. The initial transpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Laske
Ernst Laske (born 9 August 1915 in Berlin; died 11 May 2004 in Kibbutz Bror Chail, Israel) was a German-Israeli book antiquarian and bibliophile. Early life Ernst Laske was the only son of the clothing merchant, art patron and bibliophile Gotthard Laske (1882–1936) and his wife Nelly. Laske grew up in Berlin. In reaction to the rise of the Nazis, he joined the Zionist movement, but hesitated for a long time to leave Germany. His father committed suicide in 1936,Vgl. auch Friedhilde Krause: ''Gedenken an die deutsch-jüdischen Bibliophilen Gotthard und Ernst Laske''. In: ''Marginalien – Zeitschrift für Buchkunst und Bibliographie'', 183. Heft 3/2006 and his sister had obtained an affidavit to South Africa and emigrated there. Laske worried about leaving his mother alone in Berlin. Nelly Laske was murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz in 1943. Escape from Nazi persecution In 1938, Ernst Laske took part in a Hakhshara, hachshara in Grüsen, Hesse, a preparatory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Holocaust
The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz concentration camp#Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka extermination camp, Treblinka, Belzec extermination camp, Belzec, Sobibor extermination camp, Sobibor, and Chełmno extermination camp, Chełmno in Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed a similar or larger number of non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term ''Holocaust'' is sometimes used to include the murder and persecution of Victims of Nazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Deaths
Events January–February * January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House. * January 28 – Death and state funeral of George V, State funeral of George V of the United Kingdom. After a procession through London, he is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. * February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. * February 6 – The 1936 Winter Olympics, IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. * February 10–February 19, 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. * February 16 – 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front (Spain), Popular Front coalition takes a majority. * February 26 – February 26 Incident (二・二六事件, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1882 Births
Events January * January 2 ** The Standard Oil Trust (business), Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates. ** Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in New York at the beginning of a lecture tour of the United States and Canada. * January 5 – Charles J. Guiteau is found guilty of the assassination of James A. Garfield (President of the United States) and sentenced to death, despite an insanity defense raised by his lawyer. * January 12 – Holborn Viaduct power station in the City of London, the world's first coal-fired public electricity generating station, begins operation. February * February 3 – American showman P. T. Barnum acquires the elephant Jumbo from the London Zoo. March * March 2 – Roderick Maclean fails in an attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria, at Windsor, Berkshire, Windsor. * March 18 (March 6 Old Style) – The Principality of Serbia becomes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Berlin
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Bibliophiles
German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman era) *German diaspora * German language * German cuisine, traditional foods of Germany People * German (given name) * German (surname) * Germán, a Spanish name Places * German (parish), Isle of Man * German, Albania, or Gërmej * German, Bulgaria * German, Iran * German, North Macedonia * German, New York, U.S. * Agios Germanos, Greece Other uses * German (mythology), a South Slavic mythological being * Germans (band), a Canadian rock band * "German" (song), a 2019 song by No Money Enterprise * ''The German'', a 2008 short film * "The Germans", an episode of ''Fawlty Towers'' * ''The German'', a nickname for Congolese rebel André Kisase Ngandu See also * Germanic (disambiguati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
