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Alfred Führer (born November 8, 1905 , † May 27, 1974 ) was a German organ builder whose organ workshop existed in Wilhelmshaven until 2003 .

Life

Alfred Führer came from a family with many craftsmen. His father Friedrich was a naval pilot. Alfred learned to play the violin. After graduating from high school in Rüstringen in 1919, an apprenticeship as a carpenter followed from 1920 to 1924 with the aim of becoming an interior designer. During the rebuilding of the organ in Bant in 1922, he met the local organist and music teacher Georg Hackstette (1890–1963), who aroused his interest in organ building. From 1924 a second apprenticeship as an organ builder followed at the then renowned North German company P. Furtwängler & Hammer , which was committed to romantic organ building. From 1928 on, Führer deepened his skills in Switzerland and the USA, before returning to teaching in 1931. Encouraged by his friend Hackstette, who was a fan of the organ movement , Führer set up his own business in Rüstringen in 1933. His first project was the restoration of Joachim Kayser's organ in Waddewarden , whose original disposition of the manual works he restored. In 1934 he married the singer Liddy Strecker (1906-2001), who took over her husband's office; the marriage remained childless. Führer's masterpiece was the 1937 organ of the St. Elisabeth Church in the west of Wangerland , which received mechanical slider chests and a free pipe prospect . After the Second World War, the company's sales area expanded to include large parts of northern Germany. Alfred Führer died in 1974.

Organ workshop leader

Over 700 new organs come from Führer’s workshop. In addition, numerous organs have been restored and expanded. In the case of historical instruments, Führer sought to return them to their original condition while retaining the historical material. Modifications from later times have been reversed. From the beginning, Führer built his organs exclusively with mechanical sliding chests and finally turned against romantic organ building from the 1960s under the influence of Fritz Schild. After free pipe brochures were initially used, the company, inspired by the Hanoverian architect Heinz Wolff, increasingly built casings made of solid wood. The organ metal of the pipe alloys received a higher proportion of lead and high percentage tin instead of zinc and copper.

Fritz Schild (* 1933), son of the organist of the same name, Fritz Schild, a cousin of Führer, learned carpentry and organ building from 1951 to 1956 and returned to the company in 1960 after years in various other companies. After the death of Führer in 1974, Schild took over the management of the company together with the widow Liddy Führer.

The organ restorations of Führer from the 1940s to 1960s were considered pioneering achievements at the time, but from today's perspective they are often viewed as inadequate. It is not uncommon for historical substance to be lost and to be reconstructed to a wrongly assumed original condition, so that most of these measures had to be "re-restored" in the last few decades. The new buildings from this early phase usually had a neo-baroque disposition. However, solid work was done throughout and the use of durable materials was preferred.

Under the new management, the company turned its attention to what it saw as traditional materials, craft techniques and a return to the classic sound ideals of organ building. The organ of the old reformed church in Bunde is a model for this reorientation.

In addition to new buildings, Schild also carried out restorations and created extensive documentation. When Schild retired in 2000, Heiko Lorenz (* 1959) took over the company. The crisis that had been looming for a long time could not be averted: in 2003 the company had to be closed due to bankruptcy. Employees re-founded the company in Wilhelmshaven in 2004 under the name Heiko Lorenz Orgelbau GmbH . Other former employees founded the East Frisian Organ Service in the same year .

Works (selection)

The incomplete list includes some new organs and significant restorations. The size of the instruments is indicated with the number of manuals (Roman) and the number of sounding registers (Arabic). An independent pedal is indicated by a “P”, an attached pedal by a small “p”.

New buildings

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1936	Wittmund	St. Nicolai		II / P	21st	Reconstruction of the organ by Hinrich Just Müller (1776)
1937	West around	St. Elisabeth Church		II / P	9	New building (masterpiece by Alfred Führer)
1950-51	Logabirum	Logabirum Church		I / P	8th	Replaced in 1998 by a new organ from Ahrend
1951	Bremen-Blumenthal	Evangelical Reformed Church		II / P	35
1953	Wilhelmshaven - Bant	Banter Church		III / P	35
1954	Varel	Baptist Peace Church		II / P	11
1955	Nordhorn	Kreuzkirche		II / P	27
1957	Bielefeld	Pauluskirche		III / P	45
1957/1987	Delmenhorst	City Church		III / P	32	1987 a register added; after W. van der Putten added 7 registers today III / P / 39
1958/1994	Bremen	St. Ansgarii		IV / P	61	New building behind the historical prospectus of Marten de Mare (1611)
1958	Bremen	St. George		II / P	24
1958	Weener	Ev.-luth. Church of the Redeemer		II / P	23
1959	Wilhelmshaven newcomers	St. Jakobi		II / P	21st
1960	Langeoog	Island church		II / P	15th	Replaced in 1992 by a new Führer organ; the old one stands today in Schortens , Holy Trinity.
1960	Hamburg-Eilbek	Friedenskirche		III / P	35	According to the organist Manfred Teßmer's arrangement
1960	Bremen-Walle	St. Mary		III / P	37	2004 re-voiced by Martin Cladders (Badbergen-Vehs)
1959-1961	Baltrum	Baltrum island church		II / P	14th
1961	Filsum	St. Paul		II / P	16
1961	Hesel	Liudgerikirche		II / P	13	Side carving by Johann Friedrich Wenthin (1793)
1961	Hamburg-Hoheluft-Ost	Eben Ezer Church		II / P	16
1961	Hamburg-Bramfeld	Easter Church		II / P	25th	1991 by Paschen organ building rebuilt
1961/1982	Wilhelmshaven	Christ and Garrison Church		III / P	32	1982 extended by 2 registers
1962	Remove	St. Laurence		II / P	24	Almost new building; Case, prospectus and 2 registers from Arp Schnitger (1713) preserved
1962	Shield ash	Collegiate church		III / P	35
1963	Kiel - Gaarden	St. John's Church		II / P	23
1963	Tecklenburg	Evangelical town church		II / P	18th	Including two registers by Wenthin (1838), Meese (1863) and Rohlfing (1892)
1963	Then after	St. Albert		III / P	34
1963	Hagen Hasp	Ev.-luth. Church Hasp		III / P	34
1963	Hamburg-Groß Borstel	Ev.-luth. St. Peter Church		II / P	24
1964	Saarbrücken	Mary Queen		III / P	40	Slightly changed in 2001
1964	Oldenburg - Thunderschwee	Church of Reconciliation		II / P	23
1964	Wuppertal - Vohwinkel	Evangelical Church Vohwinkel		II / P	26th	Extensively renovated in 2012 and 2015
1965	Sengwarden	St. George		II / P	26th	New building behind the historical prospectus by Jost Sieburg (1644)
1965	Golzwarden	St. Bartholomew Church		II / P	22nd	New building behind the historic prospect by Arp Schnitger (1698)
1965	Wiesmoor - Hinrichsfehn	Church of Reconciliation		I / P	5	2002 General overhaul of the organ and extension by a sub-bass 16 ′ (pedal) by Martin ter Haseborg
1964-1966	Empty	Luther Church		III / P	40	2001 to Saarlouis , Ev. Church, sold; Replaced in 2002 by a new organ from Ahrend behind the historical prospectus by Hinrich Just Müller (1795)
1966	Emstek	St. Margaretha		II / P	24
1966	Bad Salzuflen	Church of the Resurrection		II / P	18th
1966	Jever	City Church		III / P	47	1963 previous organ burned; 2006 Exchange of two registers and installation of a stand 32 ′ by Bartelt Immer ; today III / P / 48, sister instrument to the organ of the Lutherkirche am Heidt in Wuppertal
1966	Wuppertal - Barmen	Luther Church Heidt		III / P	36	Sister instrument to the organ of the town church in Jever , electric stop action
1966	Hamburg Horn	Martinskirche		II / P	21st	Replacement for the organ damaged in the war, which was built in 1905 by the organ builder EF Walcker & Cie. was built in Ludwigsburg
1966	Kiel	Easter Church		II / P	22nd	for the Easter church completed in 1966
1966	Eppinghoven (Dinslaken)	Friedenskirche		II / P	20th	1975 Restoration after an organ fire
1967	Bremen-Ferry-Lobbendorf	Christophoruskirche		III / P	32
1967	Plön	Nikolaikirche		III / P	38
1968	Wolfenbüttel	Church of Reconciliation		II / P	25th
1968	Sioux Falls / SD (USA)	First Lutheran Church		II / P	12 (approx.)	Acquired from Decorah / IA, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
1968	Braunschweig	St. Magni		III / P	35
1968	Burgsteinfurt	Big church		II / P	28	New building behind the historical prospectus by Konrad Bader (1658)
1968	Neumunster	Vicelin Church		III / P	45
1968	Juist	Juist island church		II / P	15th	1995 extended by principal 8 ′. The swell has manually operated folding doors.
1968	Kiel	Martinskirche		II / P	14th
1968	Coastal	Friedenskirche		I / p	6th	New building with slide chests and mechanical action. The pedal is attached. Revised 2010 by OBM Martin ter Haseborg .
1969	Meuchefitz	Feldsteinkirche (Meuchefitz)		I / p	4th	The small single-manual organ is built into the gallery parapet as a so-called parapet post.
1969	Blinking	St. Hippolytus		II / P	22nd	New building behind the historical prospectus by Joachim Kayser (1685)
1969	Muenster	Matthew Church		II / P	20th
1969	Kiel	University Church		II / P	28
1969	Oldenburg- Eversten	St. Ansgari		III / P	50	2005 Installation of a new setter including register magnets by Bartelt Immer
1970	Loeningen	St. Vitus		III / P	37	New building behind the historical prospectus by Johann Gottlieb Müller (1770)
1971	Kiel	St. Nicholas		III / P	34
1971	Dotlingen	St. Firminus		II / P	17th	New building; Overhauled in 2002
1972	Westeraccum	Petrikirche		I / p	7th	New building behind the historical prospectus by Gerd Sieben Janssen (1856–1861)
1972	Oldenburg	Lamberti Church		III / P	50	2008 expanded by two registers by Mühleisen organ builder ; today III / P / 52
1973	Boppard	St. Severus		II / P	26th
1974	Altena	Luther Church		II / P	28	Behind the historical prospectus (1760s) as a replacement for the Ladegast organ from 1895
1975	Damme (Dumber)	St. Viktor		III / P	40	2013 General renovation and slight reorganization by organ builder Fleiter → Orgel
1976	Munster-Roxel	St. Pantaleon		II / P	23	Originally located in Essen, Kreuzeskirche, three registers renewed for Roxel
1976	Bitburg	House Beda		II / P	11
1978	Borninghausen	St. Ulricus		II / P	14th	Restoration of the historical case (1661) and using the registers by Gustav Steinmann (1955)
1979	Munster-Gremmendorf	Ev. Friedenskirche		II / P	8th
1979	Riddagshausen Monastery	Monastery church		III / P	31	Reduced replica of the earlier swallow's nest organ by Heinrich Compenius (1619)
1979-1980	Bundles	Ev.-old ref. church		II / P	14th	New model of a parish choral organ → Organ of the Old Reformed Church (Bunde)
1980	Herten	St. Anthony		III / P	40	Using material from the previous organs → Organ
1981	Münster-Albachten	Matthias Claudius House		I.	7th
1982	Seefeld (Stadland)	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	15th
1983	Ludinghausen	St. Felizitas		III / P	41	Using parts of the previous organ (prospectus and others)
1983	Visselhövede	St. Johannis		II / P	20th	New building behind the historical prospectus by Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy (1779); Disposition based on Wilhelmy
1983	Schieder-Schwalenberg	Ref. Church		II / P	18th	Reconstruction of the organ by Johann-Markus Oestreich (1815)
1984	Kray (food)	Old church		III / P	41
1986	Lübeck	St. Mary		IV / P	56	Dance of Death Organ
1986	Rodenkirchen (Stadland)	St. Matthew		II / P	21st	Reconstruction behind the historical prospectus by Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer (1758)
1987	Fredenbeck	Martin Luther Church		II / P	20th
1987	bad Godesberg	St. Albertus		II / P	23
1988	Keep quiet	St. Martin		III / P	36
1989	Wellingholzhausen	St. Bartholomew		III / P	38	Partly older registers taken over
1989	Thuine	Christ the King Church		III / P	39	18 stops taken from the previous organ
1990	Dörpen	St. Vitus		II / P	26th
1990	Arable	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	17th	With coupling manual; 2015 moved to Haag in Upper Bavaria (Catholic Church of the Assumption)
1991	Lengerich	St. Benedict		II / P	34
1991	Iselersheim	Church of the Resurrection		II / P	18th
1992	Hamburg	University		II / P	30th
1992	Langeoog	Island church		II / P	24	Replaces the Führer organ from 1960
1992	Jork	St. Matthias		II / P	22nd	New building behind historical prospectus and in historical housing by Schnitger (1709)
1992	Espelkamp	Michaelskirche		II / P	11
1993	Munich - Pasing	St. Willibald		III / P	41
1993	Seoul (South Korea)			III / P	44
1994	Ostercappeln	St. Lambertus		II / P	31	Using registers from the previous organs by Christian Vater (3 registers, 1737) and Haupt (9 registers, 1876)
1994	Schoenberg (Lauenburg)	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	21st
1994	Heikendorf	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	14th
1995	Diersbach (Austria)	Parish church		II / P	25th
1995	Davenstedt	Johanneskirche		II / P	19th
1996	Freiberg	St. John		II / P	15th	Originally built in 1993 for Hamburg-Blankenese
1996	Hamburg-Sasel	Vicelin Church		II / P	18th
1996	Bremen	St. Anthony		II / P	13
1997	Bielefeld	Lukas Church		II / P	15th
1997	Delmenhorst- Hasport	Johanneskirche		I / p	7th
1997	Lüsche ( Bakum )	St. Joseph		II / P	15th
1997	Hildesheim	St. Mark		II / P	14th
1998	Dinslaken - Hiesfeld	Cemetery chapel		II	7th
1999	Frenswegen	Monastery chapel		I / P	9
1999	Oepping (Austria)	Parish church		II / P	21st	According to Schnitger
2000	Mülheim an der Ruhr	Sacred Heart Church		II / P	30th	In French style
2000	Schermbeck	St. George		II / P	16
2001	Tromsø (Norway)	Grønnåsen Church		II / P	24
2003	Bodø (Norway)	Bodin Kirke		II / P	26th	Disposition according to A. Schnitger / Chr. Vater (around 1720)

Restorations

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1974	Ringstedt	St. Fabian		II / P	18th	Using the old registers from Georg W. Wilhelmy (1788) and Johann Hinrich Röver (1871)
1973-1975	Geversdorf	St. Andrew's Church		II / P	22nd	Restoration of the organ by Philipp Furtwängler (1843)
1974-1975	Bagband	Bagbander Church		I / p	14th	Restoration of the organ by Heinrich Wilhelm Eckmann (1774–75)
1974/1978/1982	Backemoor	St. Laurentius and St. Vincenz		I / p	12	Restoration of the organ by Johann Friedrich Wenthin (1783) → Organ
1981	Detern	St. Stephen's and Bartholomew Church		I / p	12	Restoration of the organ by Wilhelm Eilert Schmid (1819)
1982-1983	Bockhorn	St. Cosmas and Damian Church		II / P	19th	Restoration of the organ by Christian Vater (1722)
1982-1983	Esens	St. Magnus Church		II / P	30th	Restoration of the organ by Arnold Rohlfs (1848–1860)
1982-1984	Buxtehude	St. Petri		III / P	52	Restoration of the organ by Philipp Furtwängler (1858-1859)
1983-1985	Westerbur	Westerbur Church		I / p	7th	Restoration of the organ by Arnold Rohlfs (1860)
1984-1986	Funnix	St. Florian Church		I / p	8th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Friedrich Constabel / Hinrich Just Müller (1760–1762)
1986	Freiburg / Elbe	St. Wulphardi		II / P	24	Restoration of the organ by an unknown organ builder / Peter Tappe / Carl Johann Heinrich Röver (16th / 17th century / 1837–1839 / 1899)
1987	Bevern (Bremervörde)	Holy Cross Church		II / P	16	Restoration and extension of the organ by Johann Hinrich Röver (1876–1878)
1987	Groothusen	St. Peter Church		II / p	19th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Friedrich Wenthin (1798–1801)
1990	Barmstedt	Holy Spirit Church		III / P	34	Hist. Organ restored to its original condition by Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer (1720)
1991	Herten	St. Anthony		III / P	40	About half of the registers are from the 19th century; from 2001 changes to the organ by the Flentrop company .
1991	I want to	St. Catherine's		II / P	33	In old case and with most of the old registers by Ernst Seifert (1905)
1991	Jheringsfehn	Jheringsfehner Church		II / P	15th	Organ by Gerd Sieben Janssen (1865)
1989-1991	Barstede	Barsteder Church		I / p	8th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Gottfried Rohlfs (1801)
1995	Bevern	St. Mary		II / P	27	With old registers by C. Krämer (1868)

literature

• Bernhard Schönbohm: Alfred Führer. In: Bernhard Schönbohm (Ed.): Well-known and famous Jeverlanders. Mettcker, Jever 1981, pp. 243-245.
• Fifty years of organ building leader . 2nd Edition. Pape, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-921140-26-9 .
• Alfred Führer: Organ building . Führer, Wilhelmshaven (annual report, 1933 ff.).
• Christoph Keggenhoff : Leader . In: Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (Eds.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York / London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , pp. 215-216 ( books.google.de ).
• Uwe Pape : leader of organ building . In: George Grove, Stanley Sadie (Eds.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . tape 9 . Macmillan / Grove's Dictionaries Inc., London / New York 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3 , pp. 332-333 .
• Fritz Schild: Monument organs. Documentation of the restoration by Organ Builders Guide 1974–1991 . 2 parts: Backmoor – Groothusen and Hage – Wiesens . Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2005, ISBN 3-7959-0862-0 .
• Fritz Schild: Organ atlas of the historical and modern organs of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg . Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2008, ISBN 978-3-7959-0894-2 .
• Harald Vogel : Small organ studies. Shown on the model of the Führer organ in the old reformed church in Bunde . 2nd Edition. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2008, ISBN 978-3-7959-0334-3 .
• Harald Vogel, Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . 2nd Edition. Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1997, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 .

Web links

Commons : guide organs  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Karl Veit Riedel: Leader, Alfred. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 213-214 ( online , PDF).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Riedel: Führer, Alfred. P. 213 ( online ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Accessed on December 7 2017, PDF). 
2. ^ Riedel: Führer, Alfred. P. 214 ( online ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Accessed on December 7 2017, PDF). 
3. ^ This is how Harald Vogel writes : Organ landscape Ostfriesland. P. 63, about the Bagbander organ by Heinrich Wilhelm Eckmann : “During the first restoration in 1949, unfortunately, two registers were reworked and the two reed registers, which were in need of repair,» but should be preserved under all circumstances «, like an expert opinion two Years earlier, it had been replaced by new factory pipes. During a second restoration in 1973-75, again by the Alfred Führer organ building workshop in Wilhelmshaven, everything that had been reworked was then reversed and everything that had been lost was reconstructed ”. For example, during the restoration of the organ at St. Marien (Buttforde) in 1949 by Führer, the original trumpet was lost.
4. ↑ Harald Vogel: Kleine Orgelkunde - Depicted on the model of the Führer organ in the old reformed church in Bunde, Verlag Florian Noetzel, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7959-0899-7 .
5. ^ Fritz Schild: Memorial organs. Verlag Florian Noetzel, 2005; Fritz Schild: Organ atlas of the historical and modern organs of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg. Publisher Florian Noetzel, 2008.
6. ↑ ^{a b} List of organ builders. Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum, accessed on August 10, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Homepage of the Ostfriesischer Orgelservice (accessed on August 15, 2009)
8. ^ Burkhart Goethe: Organ Prospectus and Time. Considerations about the shape of the case 1933–1983. In: Uwe Pape (Hrsg.): Fifty years of organ building leaders. Pape Verlag, Berlin 1983, pp. 41–43, and entry in the catalog raisonné there, p. 74.
9. ^ The organs in St. Marien Bremen-Walle . Retrieved May 16, 2018.
10. ↑ Well-known faces in Heckinghausen, and why Wupperfeld-Gemarke has to rethink - the organ of the Luther Church in Barmer. The organ journal. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
11. ↑ Church guide Die Osterkirche - history, numbers and facts. (PDF) In: http://www.emmaus-kiel.de/ . Evangelical Lutheran Emmaus Parish of Kiel, accessed on December 18, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Evangelical-Lutheran Emmaus-Kirchengemeinde Kiel: Church guide Die Martinskirche history, facts and figures. (PDF) In: http://www.emmaus-kiel.de/kirchengemeinde/martinskirche/ . Evangelical Lutheran Emmaus Parish of Kiel, accessed on December 21, 2018 . 
13. ^ Organ in Wellingholzhausen , accessed on March 29, 2018.
14. ↑ The Alfred-Führer-Organ of the parish church Mariä Himmelfahrt Haag i. OB , accessed on March 29, 2018 (PDF).
15. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 394-422.
16. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 23-41.
17. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 12-22.
18. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 206-223.
19. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 95-131.
20. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 308-347.
21. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 132-205.
22. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 839-852.
23. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 358-372.
24. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 72-94.
25. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 423-456.
26. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 42-57.