Rading, Adolf

Rading was one of the architects who were not of Jewish faith, but who were also excluded from the Reich Chamber of Culture due to their marriage to a Jewish woman.
Born in Berlin, Rading attended the Baugewerkschule and worked in August Endell’s office, among others. He brought Rading to the Wroclaw Academy of Art in 1919 as a teacher and later as head of the architecture class. From 1926 to 1933, he also entered into an office partnership with Hans Scharoun. In addition to several buildings in Breslau (Haus Rading, Odd Fellow Lodge, conversion of the Mohrenapotheke), he also planned residential buildings and a residential complex with small apartments in his home town of Berlin, as well as the Rabe residential building in Zwenkau. Rading was a member of the architects’ association “Der Ring”.
Rading was forced to leave Berlin in 1933 and emigrated to Palestine via southern France, where he was the urban architect of Haifa from 1943 to 1950. He then moved to London as a freelance architect.