Growald, Walter

Very little is known about the two architects. Walter Growald was born in 1884 in Breslau [today Wrocław, Poland] and studied architecture there. Like many of his young colleagues, he too came to Berlin, where he opened a “construction office” in Karlsruher Straße 14. This commercial building, his only known structure, exemplifies the clear forms of Neue Sachlichkeit [New Objectivity]. Growald belonged to the group of architects who decided not to flee Germany after 1933. After the National Socialists banned him from practicing his profession, he continued to live in Berlin until November 1941, when he was deported to the ghetto in Riga and murdered there.