Richard Goldreich

Son of the Jewish merchant Moritz Goldreich (born 28. 7. 1842 Dolní Sokolovec, died 23. 5. 1907 Pardubice) and his second wife Mathilde, née Strasser. He had four siblings and four half-siblings. Shortly after his birth, around 1890, the family moved to Pardubice, where Richard Goldreich lived with a short break until 1923. Apparently, he graduated from the Prague Technical School. On 7. 11. 1911, he registered for residence in Prague. His occupation was listed as engineering undergraduate, but he apparently only stayed there until the middle of 1912. On 31. 10. 1923 in Prague – at that time he lived at Královské Vinohrady no. 45 (now Škrétova 45/8) – he entered into a civil marriage with Magdalena Maršíčková (born 6. 11. 1896 Čivice, now Staré Čivice, Pardubice district, died October 1979, Prague). According to the record in the marriage register, the marriage was dissolved on 17. 6. 1941, apparently in an attempt to protect his wife from the impact of the Nuremberg Laws. According to another record, however, they re-married again in January 1942. Transport AE 3 dispatched from Prague on 11. 2. 1945 and deported Richard Goldreich to Terezín, where he waited out the end of the war. In 1945, he applied to change his surname to Grégr, and by notice of the Prague City Council dated 21. 1. 1946, his request was granted.

Ing. Richard Goldreich worked as an architect and builder first in Pardubice, where so far only one of his buildings, the telegraph and telephone factory Telegrafia, later Tesla, at Kyjevská Street 37, built in 1922, has been identified. But he undoubtedly carried out many more projects there. In 1922, while still working in Pardubice, he designed a house for his brother, the merchant Erwin Goldreich (born 14. 3. 1886 Sokolovec, died 1950 Prague), the renovation of the house at Benešova Street 1251/23, and an extension to the house to include a knitwear warehouse for Goldreich Brothers (Bratři Goldreichové). His half-brother Karel (born 20. 7. 1877 Sokolovec, died 8. 9. 1942 Malý Trostinec) also worked in Jihlava. In 1929, two identical villas were built according to Richard's design at Fibichova Street 903/20 and 902/22 for the associates of Klinenberger a spol., Bedřich Klinenberger and Rudolf Popper. In 1923, Richard Goldreich moved his company to Prague, where it was located at Škrétova 11 in Královské Vinohrady.

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