Heinrich Blum
*16. 1. 1894 – Soběšice, Czech Republic
†1942, Poland
Biography
Heinrich Blum was born in Soběšice near Brno in a Jewish family. His father was Šimon and his mother was Leopolda née Polatschková. He studied at the First German Real Gymnasium in Brno, then at the German Technical School there, where he was enrolled on January 17, 1903. He took his first state exam in 1914 (51 points), and the second only in 1921, likely due to military service in World War I.
At the Technical School, he continued as an assistant with postgraduate studies and a dissertation titled "Study of the Development of the Academic District at Kraví Hora in Relation to the Area between Kraví Hora and Královo Pole". In the mid-1930s, he lived in his parents' apartment at Kobližná 18.
After his studies, Heinrich joined the architects of Brno, mostly Jews - Ernst Wiesner, Otto Eisler, Sikmund Kerekes, who saw their main reference point in Adolf Loos, whom they met in 1920. Thanks to Loos's influence, Brno gained a significant advantage in the application of modern architecture.
At the beginning of November 1941, he married Gertrude Nasch (*January 14, 1905, in Holešov) and lived at Na Ponávce 16. Together with his wife, he was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on April 14, 1942, in transport Ah as no. 713, and subsequently on April 27, 1942, in transport Aq as no. 618 to Polish Izbica. From Izbica, they were likely transported to one of the nearby extermination camps Majdanek, Belzec, Chelmno, or Sobibor, where they were murdered.
Heinrich Blum was born in Soběšice near Brno in a Jewish family. His father was Šimon and his mother was Leopolda née Polatschková. He studied at the First German Real Gymnasium in Brno, then at the German Technical School there, where he was enrolled on January 17, 1903. He took his first state exam in 1914 (51 points), and the second only in 1921, likely due to military service in World War I.
At the Technical School, he continued as an assistant with postgraduate studies and a dissertation titled "Study of the Development of the Academic District at Kraví Hora in Relation to the Area between Kraví Hora and Královo Pole". In the mid-1930s, he lived in his parents' apartment at Kobližná 18.
After his studies, Heinrich joined the architects of Brno, mostly Jews - Ernst Wiesner, Otto Eisler, Sikmund Kerekes, who saw their main reference point in Adolf Loos, whom they met in 1920. Thanks to Loos's influence, Brno gained a significant advantage in the application of modern architecture.
At the beginning of November 1941, he married Gertrude Nasch (*January 14, 1905, in Holešov) and lived at Na Ponávce 16. Together with his wife, he was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on April 14, 1942, in transport Ah as no. 713, and subsequently on April 27, 1942, in transport Aq as no. 618 to Polish Izbica. From Izbica, they were likely transported to one of the nearby extermination camps Majdanek, Belzec, Chelmno, or Sobibor, where they were murdered.
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