Heinrich Stühlmeyer

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Heinrich Stühlmeyer 1968

Johannes Heinrich Stühlmeyer (born August 17, 1907 in Gesmold ; † February 25, 1978 in Melle ) was a German custodian , cantor and composer . He worked for the Gesmolder St. Petrus Church for about 48 years .

Life

Stühlmeyer was born in 1907 in what is now the western Meller district of Gesmold, in the Hanover province . His father, Franz Stühlmeyer (1878–1966), was a civil servant in the Melle district . From 1930 to 1978 Heinrich Stühlmeyer held the office of custodian and cantor at the St. Petrus Church Gesmold in the Diocese of Osnabrück .

Today's St. Petrus Church was designed in the 19th century by the Belgian builder Emanuel Bruno Quaet-Faslem and is architecturally based on the Roman domed rotunda church of Santa Maria ad Martyres . The romantic swallow's nest organ , built around 1880 and provided with a special feature, a swell mechanism, which was set into the dome of the church as a remote mechanism, came from the organ building company Haupt from Ostercappeln . The cantor's building, the " Alte Küsterei ", was right next to the St. Petruskirche. The local school was also housed in it. The combination of custodian, cantor and schoolmaster had been a tradition in Gesmold since 1624.

Heinrich Stühlmeyer was released from military service in 1939 for health reasons . Because of his commitment to the Catholic Church and those persecuted by National Socialism , he was taken to the Emsland camp in 1940 .

The political community Gesmold honored Heinrich Stühlmeyer every year on the Sunday after St. John's Day at the “Burstie”, the Gesmold local assembly within a medieval stone circle in the center of the village under the Femelinde , by handing over a wheat stub . Federal President Johannes Rau honored him posthumously in 2001 with the title: "Silent hero of the resistance ".

Heinrich Stühlmeyer was 43 years with Klara Stühlmeyer (1910–1995), b. Stratmann, married, the couple has three children: Franz (* 1936), church musician and from 1960 to 2000 cantor and organist of the St. Matthäus town church in Melle, Maria (* 1940) and Josef (* 1947), piano and harpsichord builder . The cantor and composer Ludger Stühlmeyer and the pastoral theologian and pastor Thomas Stühlmeyer are his grandchildren.

Works (selection)

St. Petrus Church Gesmold around 1900

Vocal:

Instrumental:

The titles of Stühlmeyer's settings from the 1930s and 1940s, which were also published in the song books Das Singeschiff and Kirchenlied , have a programmatic effect. A certain resistance potential is to be found in songs like The banner is consecrated to the Lord or Satan puts out the lights not to deny. “Being different, being Catholic in a totalitarian state, in which the individual can only apply something if he is absorbed in the whole of the people, is a resistance,” says Arno Klönne ; To set up an ecclesiastical “counter-world” in such a state and thereby to evade the totalitarian claim already bears resistance traits.

literature

  • Heimatverein Gesmold (Hrsg.): Gesmold yesterday and today . Gesmold 1986, pp. 28-31.
  • Heimatverein Gesmold (ed.): The power of soft tones or: A silent hero from Gesmold . In: Gesmolder Heimathefte No. 134, March 2010, pp. 1–3.
  • Ludger Stühlmeyer: The power of tones . In: Heinrichsblatt . Weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Bamberg No. 12, Bamberg March 25, 2018, p. 13.
  • Ludger Stühlmeyer: Mindfulness of the dignity of others . In: The Grönegau. Meller Jahrbuch 2020, Volume 38. Edited by Fritz-Gerd Mittelstädt in collaboration with the City of Melle. Steinbacher, Osnabrück 2019, pp. 173–179.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Stühlmeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

Tones for the hymn for keyboard instruments, four-part mixed choir, string and wind instruments
  1. ↑ In: Heimatverein Gesmold (ed.): Gesmolder Heimathefte No. 123, June 2007, pp. 1–8.
  2. ^ Barbara and Ludger Stühlmeyer: Bernhard Lichtenberg . I will follow my conscience . Topos plus Verlagsgemeinschaft Kevelaer 2013, ISBN 978-3-8367-0835-7 , p. 8.
  3. ↑ In: Landkreis Melle (ed.): The Grönegau in past and present , Melle 1968, pp. 200–201 and in: Heimatverein Gesmold (ed.) Gesmold yesterday and today . Gesmold 1986, pp. 28-29.
  4. ↑ Quote: Federal President Johannes Rau, Berlin in April 2001.
  5. ↑ In: Gesmolder Heimathefte No. 134, March 2010, p. 2.
  6. ↑ In: Paul Burhoff: St. Matthäus Melle. From the life of a parish . Sutmöller, Melle 1983, p. 80.
  7. ↑ Joseph Stühlmeyer, the Web Profile
  8. ↑ a b The choral movement was created against the background of the liturgical movement of the 1930s and efforts to reform the Holy Week liturgy .
  9. ^ Choral movements in the DNB
  10. ↑ Choral setting in the web archive (PDF)
  11. ^ Song of the denominational youth movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Published in: Kirchenlied , Christophorus-Verlag Freiburg 1938. Stühlmeyer partially changes Thurmair's text in the 2nd stanza: instead of soldiers for life , he writes confessors for life and bring us ... / ... his cross in the war He changes his victory into lead us in contention ... / ... his cross be our guide .
  12. ↑ Published in: Kirchenlied , Freiburg 1938.
  13. ^ Article in the web archive of the Heinrichsblatt .
personal data
SURNAME Stühlmeyer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German custodian, cantor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Molded
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1978
Place of death Melle