Talk:Hannes Meyer

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For the red link "Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification" in section "After Bauhaus", the Spanish version of this article says that he was "hired by the National Polytechnic Institute to teach in its College of Engineering and Architecture (ESIA), where he directed the planning and urban design courses until 1941." (Original text: para establecerse contratado por el ... hasta 1941, I used a web translator) I don't understand Spanish, but maybe there does not exist the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification ("Institute of Urban design and Planning"?) ?

Also in section "Bauhaus", is the translation for die neue baulehre, "the new way how to build", a English phrase? Should it be "the new way to build"? Chimin 07 (talk) 09:55, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

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Margarete Mengel
Margarete Mengel (* 12 May 1901 in Düsseldorf; † 20 August 1938 in Butovo) was a German accountant and former Bauhaus chief secretary who fell victim to Stalinist purges in the Soviet Union.

Life
Mengel was Jewish. At the age of 25, in January 1927, she gave birth to a son, Johannes Mengele. The child's father was the Swiss architect Hannes Meyer.

Mengel joined the German Communist Party (KPH) in 1931 and worked for them as a courier. She also followed Meyer to the Soviet Union in 1931, along with their mutual son, the Bauhaus Red Front Brigade and a group of German architects, including Bauhaus student Peer Bücking, to help build a new society under socialism. They reached Moscow in January 1933. She worked first for the Comintern, then in the letters department of the Deutsche Zentral-Zeitung newspaper in Moscow. When Meyer returned to Switzerland in 1936, Mengel and her son remained: Mengel was not granted a Swiss entry visa, but she could not return to Nazi Germany either. As a German, she was not allowed to leave the country.

On 14 February 1938, arrested by the Soviet Ministry of the Interior (NKVD), charged with spying for Nazi Germany, she was sentenced to death without trial on 29 July 1938. Sick and under torture, she confessed to the charges. On 20 August 1938, she and her new partner Alois Keclik were executed by firing squad in Butovo.

Son
Her son Johannes Mengel (* 4 January 1927; † 2003) wandered from orphanage to children's home, and from the age of ten grew up under the assumed name of Ivan Ivanovich Mengel in a home for criminal youth in the Ukraine. While still a minor, he joined the labour army and was exiled to the Urals. At the age of 15 he was sent to underground work in the Chelyabinsk region as a miner. He was expelled from school until 1956. He then became a civil engineer. He only found out about his mother's violent death in 1993, and came to Germany as an ethnic German resettler in July 1994. He wrote about his tragic childhood experiences in a letter dated April 6, 1998, which was later published. Johannes Mengel died in 2003.