Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was the final director of the Bauhaus from 1930-33. It had been moved from Dessau to Berlin in 1932 and was disbanded a year later.
Simultaneous events
1933 League for Human Rights
Grete Tugendhat began to work for the League for Human Rights organisation which provided financing and practical assistance for political refugees from Germany after the ascension to power of Adolf Hitler... read more
1933 Lemke House
The Nazis destroyed a monument to Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg at the cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in 1933 which had been realized according to a design by Mies in 1926 (K. Liebknecht, born... read more
1933 Hitler's Fascism
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) came to power in Germany and was named Chancellor by the German President Hindenburg on 30th of January 1933. A year earlier Hitler's NSDAP had taken key positions in the German... read more