Otto Eisler
Otto Eisler ( born June 1, 1893 in Bistrita whether Pernštejna, Moravia, † July 27, 1968 in Brno ) was a Czech architect of the Jewish faith.
Life
Otto Eisler was born in Bistrita, where his parents owned a small farm. After his father Theodore had died in 1896, his mother Ernestine moved with five children to Brno. Here Eisler attended high school in the Antoninska road (1904-1912) and studied with a break because of his military service from 1912 to 1922 Architecture at the German Technical University. After a short professional practice in Vienna and in the architectural firm Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1923, he opened an office for garden design in Brno.
After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, he was arrested and interned for six weeks by the Gestapo in Spielberg prison. After his release, he fled to Norway. When Norway was occupied, he tried to cross the border to Sweden, but was shot and arrested again. From 1940 to 1943 he made forced labor in Norway, was finally brought to Auschwitz in 1943 and in the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he witnessed the arrival of the American army on 11 April 1945.
After his return to Brno 1946 he married his cousin Gertrude Kenderová. Until 1950 he worked independently, after which he was an employee of the Botanical Garden of the JE Purkyne University in Brno. From 1950 to 1953 he was chairman of the association for the establishment of the Zoological Gardens in Glasgow.