Germany, Palestine, Northern California : political and architectural activities, 1993 / Hans Schiller ; interviews conducted by Malca Chall, Eleanor Glaser, and Suzanne Riess, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Germany, Palestine, Northern California : political and architectural activities, 1993 / Hans Schiller ; interviews conducted by Malca Chall, Eleanor Glaser, and Suzanne Riess, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Childhood in Breslau, Germany, and Berlin; emigration to Palestine in 1935; studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem; spying for Haganah, night patrol, while undertaking pre-med studies at American University, Beirut; meeting and apprenticing with architect Eric Mendelsohn; with British army in Egypt during WWII; marriage to Charlotte (Lotte) Bernheim, family, move to San Francisco in 1947; residence in Mill Valley. Eric Mendelsohn: training, attitudes, utopias, Einstein Tower, emigration to America, acceptance within the profession; Schiller's association with Mendelsohn, in Israel, in San Francisco, Mendelsohn's office, the Madeline Haas Russell house, career since 1953, John Bowles. Political interests: Clem Miller, Adlai Stevenson, Eugene McCarthy, John Tunny campaigns; Calif. Democratic Council in the 1960s and 1970s; participation in Marin County design review, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC). Includes Schiller's notes on Eric Mendelsohn from 1965; comments by Glaser and Riess on the interview process; 8 p. of handwritten notes by Schiller about his life; and chronologies of his political work in Marin County; 1995 newspaper article on Schiller wedding; greeting cards from Schiller.

Transcript: 1 v. (514, [28] p.) : ill. ; 28 cm.Phonotapes: 20 sound cassettes.

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