Alfred Tiedemann

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Alfred Tiedemann ( February 23, 1875 - March 5, 1962 ) was a German industrialist and patron .

Life

Tiedemann family grave in the old Annenfriedhof in Dresden-Plauen

Tiedemann was the son of the factory owner consul Gustav Richard Tiedemann. He studied law in Erlangen and wrote his doctoral thesis on the legal prohibition of competition . In 1902 he joined the Carl Tiedemann company, which was run by his father. After the death of Consul Tiedemann in 1915, Alfred Tiedemann took over the management of the company, which is known for producing the paints for the Royal Saxon Railway .

The company Adolf Bleichert & Co. was one of Carl Tiedemann's most important customers . The world-famous cable car inventor Adolf Bleichert and Consul Tiedemann had a close friendship, which was strengthened in 1900 by the marriage of Helene Tiedemann and Max Adolf Bleichert . After the early death of Adolf Bleichert, Consul Tiedemann stood by the young heirs of Bleichert as an advisory board.

The brothers-in-law Bleichert and Tiedemann further expanded the business relationship. Max Adolf von Bleichert (ennobled 1918) acted as a member of the supervisory board at Carl Tiedemann.

Special paints for railways, industrial applications and floors (amber) made Carl Tiedemann an industry leader. In 1926, Alfred Tiedemann merged his family business with Schmidt & Hintzen, Coswig . The resulting company, Vereinigte Lack und Farbwerke Coswig , continued to produce on the spacious Carl Tiedemann factory premises (built in 1906).

Alfred Tiedemann took over the management board of the new company and served in this function until 1931. After that, Alfred Tiedemann remained on the company's supervisory board. Coswig paint is still produced in Industrie Straße today. The successor company Herlac continues the old Tiedemann tradition that began in 1833.

Alfred Tiedemann as a patron

In 1916, Alfred Tiedemann bought the run-down Schloss Wackerbarth winery . For over a hundred years, several owners had rebuilt and historicized Count Wackerbarth's baroque castle . Little was left of the original plans by the architect Johann Christoph Knöffel . Tiedemann ordered the architect Georg Heinsius von Meyenburg, who carried out the renovation from 1917. The old baroque gardens in front of and behind the castle were also restored. The famous terrace garden that leads up to the Belvedere is particularly important .

In addition, viticulture was reactivated with great difficulty. Neighboring vineyards were bought and the old, extinct vines replaced. As early as 1924 it was reported that the Wackberth wine was very drinkable.

Even Gerhart Hauptmann was one of the Friends of Alfred Tiedemann. Tiedemann sent him considerable funds. And Hauptmann returned the favor by supporting Tiedemann in founding the Sibyllen publishing house .

Tiedemann founded this publishing house in Dresden in 1917. Literary advisors on this project were Oskar Maurus Fontana and Franz Blei . In the years that followed, Sibyllen-Verlag brought a wide range of valuable books onto the market. Including works by Paul Fechter, Monty Jacobs, Robert Musil (Die Schwärmer), Clive Bell, Herbert Ihering, Charles Bauduoin, Eckart von Sydow, J. Petzold, Cornelius Gurlitt (August der Starke), and Armin T. Wegner .

Meetings of poets were organized at Wackerbarth Castle. Although Tiedemann did not live in the castle himself, it served as a meeting point for his literary events.

Dresden, Huebnerstrasse 8

In 1926 Schloss Wackerbarth became the property of Arnhold Bank. When the time came under National Socialist leadership, the Sibyllen-Verlag was liquidated. Alfred Tiedemann retired to Dresden and lived in the Tiedemann Villa, which is now a listed building (Hübner Str. 8). After 1945 this villa also had to be abandoned. Relatives from the west supported the former factory owner and lord of the castle. After his death, Alfred Tiedemann was buried in the family grave in the Annenfriedhof.