Adolf von Oechelhäuser

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Adolf von Oechelhäuser

Adolf Wilhelm Theodor von Oechelhäuser (born September 17, 1852 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † June 3, 1923 in Dessau (Anhalt)) was a German art historian and monument conservator .

Life

Adolf von Oechelhäuser was the son of the entrepreneur Wilhelm Oechelhäuser and brother of Wilhelm von Oechelhäuser junior. He was raised to the nobility through his father in 1883.

After his school education he was an officer in the Royal Prussian Cuirassier Regiment Seydlitz . From 1887 von Oechelhäuser was a private lecturer in art history at Heidelberg University . In 1893 von Oechelhäuser was appointed to the chair of art history at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , of which he was rector in 1902/03 and 1909/10. In 1895 he gave the speech at the unveiling ceremony for the Wilhelm Lübke memorial in Karlsruhe. Under Franz Xaver Kraus , he was co-editor with Josef Durm of the series Die Kunstdenkmäler des Grand Duchy of Baden , for which he also wrote the volumes on the districts of Mosbach and Heidelberg. From 1913 to 1918, Oechelhäuser was a member of the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly as a member of the TH Karlsruhe .

After Georg Dehio's “Program for a Handbook of German Monuments”, which met in Dresden in 1900 , had approved the first German Day for the Preservation of Monuments , von Oechelhäuser was a member of the commission alongside Cornelius Gurlitt and Hugo Loersch , which Dehio then worked on to create the German handbook Had commissioned art monuments .

In 1902, Oechelhäuser awarded the title of " Hofrat ". When Privy Councilor died of Oechelhaeuser the age of 70 years in the Anhalt state capital Dessau , where he was on the death of his brother. In addition to this, he was buried in the family's hereditary funeral in Dessau. His estate is on the one hand in the historical archive of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg (among other things, correspondence on the "Days for Monument Preservation") and in the Federal Archives in Koblenz.

Like his father and brother, he was a member of the Dessau Masonic Lodge Esiko for the rising light .

Publications (selection)

  • The circle of images for the wälschen Gaste of Thomasin von Zerclaere examined and described according to the existing manuscripts . Koester, Heidelberg 1890.
  • The Heidelberg Castle. Architectural and art history guide . Siebert, Heidelberg 1891 Digitized version of the 6th edition from 1923
  • with Franz Xaver Kraus (ed.): The medieval wall paintings in the Grand Duchy of Baden (only one volume was published in Darmstadt in 1893).
  • The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Verlag JCB Mohr:
  • Volume 4 The art monuments of the Mosbach district
    • Volume 4, 1: The art monuments of the district of Wertheim (Mosbach district) , Freiburg 1896. Digitized
    • Volume 4, 2: The art monuments of the Tauberbischofsheim district (Mosbach district) , Freiburg 1898. Digitized
    • Volume 4, 3: The art monuments of the administrative districts of Buchen and Adelsheim (Mosbach district) , Tübingen 1901. Digitized
    • Volume 4, 4: The art monuments of the districts of Mosbach and Eberbach (Mosbach district) , Tübingen 1906. Digitized
  • Volume 8: The art monuments of the Heidelberg district
    • Volume 8, 1: The art monuments of the districts of Sinsheim, Eppingen and Wiesloch (Heidelberg district) , Tübingen 1909 digitized
    • Volume 8, 2: The art monuments of the Heidelberg district (Heidelberg district) , Tübingen 1913 digitized
  • History of the great Baden Academy of Fine Arts. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the foundation festival . Braun Verlag, Karlsruhe 1904 digitized
  • Paths, goals and dangers of monument preservation . Karlsruhe 1909
  • War and art . Braun Verlag, Karlsruhe 1915

literature

  • Otto Francke: On the return of the brothers Dr. Wilhelm and go. Council Professor Dr. Adolf v. Oechelhäuser . In: Yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society , Volume 59/60, 1924, pp. 159 ff.
  • Christoph Schwarzkopf: Adolf von Oechelhaeuser - a Badener on the days of monument preservation from 1900–1922. In: Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg , 33rd year 2004, issue 1, pp. 13–22 ( PDF ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for German Aristocracy Research: Officers of the Cuirassier Regiment Seydlitz
  2. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kremer: The Grand Duchy of Baden in the political reporting of the Prussian ambassadors, 1871-1918 , Volume 43 (1990), p. 466 Note 1 .
  3. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Volume I. Central Germany . Berlin 1905, p. III.
  4. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 22 (1902), p. 209 .
  5. ↑ Yearbook of the German Shakespeare Society , Volume 59/60 (1924), p. 305 .
  6. ↑ cf. Safekeeping of the estate

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predecessor Office successor
Matthäus Haid (Practical Geometry and Higher Geodesy) Rector of the Technical University of Karlsruhe
1902–1903 		Ludwig Klein (botany)
Adolf Krazer (mathematics) also
1909-1910 		Paul Stäckel (Mathematics)
personal data
SURNAME Oechelhäuser, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oechelhäuser, Adolf Wilhelm Theodor von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, monument conservator, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1923
Place of death Dessau (Anhalt)