15 Facts About Werner Hegemann

Werner Hegemann's published criticism of Hitler and the Nazi party required him to leave Germany with his family in 1933.

Werner Hegemann died prematurely in New York City in 1936.

Back in Berlin in 1910 Werner Hegemann was General Secretary of the Universal City Planning Exhibition held in Berlin in May and June of that year.

The exhibition aroused great interest and was reprised in refocused form in Dusseldorf; Werner Hegemann wrote an article about it for a general audience and a two-volume official book.

In 1912 Hegemann accepted an invitation from Frederic C Howe, Director of the People's Institute in New York, to give lectures on city planning in over 20 American cities.

In late 1918, visiting his friend Fiske Kimball at the University of Michigan, Werner Hegemann met Ida Belle Guthe, daughter of Karl Eugen Guthe.

In 1921 Werner Hegemann completed work on The American Vitruvius: An Architects' Handbook of Civic Art with Elbert Peets, a "thesaurus" of civic art for architects, commenting on about 1200 examples of the discipline.

Werner Hegemann gave a lecture criticising European aesthetics, patterns and planning of this resort city.

In February 1933, a few weeks after Hitler took power and contemporaneously with the Reichstag Fire, Werner Hegemann published Entlarvte Geschichte, a book critically and sarcastically questioning the origins of and role models for the Nazi Party.

Werner Hegemann was one of many intellectuals essentially exiled from Germany due to Nazi hostility and persecution.

Werner Hegemann began lecturing at the New School and organizing assistance for intellectuals and scholars detained by the Nazis in Germany, such as Carl von Ossietzky, another German critic of Hitler, who was arrested and imprisoned by the Nazi's in the same month that Hegemann left Germany.

Werner Hegemann authored the book Der Gerettete Christus in 1928.

Werner Hegemann gave a lecture criticising European aesthetics, patterns and planning of this resort city.

In New York in early 1936, Werner Hegemann became ill, first diagnosed with sciatica and then hospitalized with apparent pneumonia.

Werner Hegemann's illness developed during a time of great stress, as he worked to support his family after having to leave all his assets behind in Germany.