Landhaus Rubinski
Landhaus Rubinski stands in Potsdam’s Berliner Vorstadt, beside the shore of the Heiligen See. The villa was built in 1912 for Julius Rubinski, a Jewish merchant and managing director of department store M. Hirsch. Its lakeside setting places a private residence within Potsdam’s architectural landscape.
After Rubinski died in 1916, his widow Paula continued living there with urologist Alfred Rothschild. In 1941, the Gestapo forced Paula Rothschild to surrender her rights during the property’s sale to Potsdam police headquarters. Heinrich von Kozierowski, an SS officer and Potsdam police president, occupied the villa until the Second World War ended.
From 1958, the East German FDGB used the building as the House of Teachers. After reunification, the Berlin-Brandenburg Society for International Relations was founded there in 1991. Extensive restoration followed its protection as a monument in 2006, and the villa now serves as a private residence. Stolpersteine outside commemorate Paula and Alfred Rothschild, its last Jewish residents.
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