Gutkind, Erwin
geb. 1866 Berlin – 1968 Philadephia gest.
Erwin Gutkind studied architecture at the Technical University Charlottenburg (now TU Berlin), earning his doctorate in 1914. After a few years in government service, he opened an office in 1923 and until 1933 was a successful architect with numerous residential building projects in boroughs such as Reinickendorf, Pankow and Tempelhof to his credit, as well as the highly acclaimed “Neu-Jerusalem” duplex housing estate in Staaken. In 1933 Gutkind was forced to emigrate; he went first to Paris and then London, where he could not reestablish himself as an architect. His mother and his wife were deported and died in concentration camps. After working as a planning consultant for the British government, he decided in 1946 to accept an appointment at the University of Pennsylvania/USA. He left a ten-volume work on the history of urban planning unfinished at his death in 1968.
