Anton Mädler
Anton Mädler (* 1864 ; † 1925 ) was a German entrepreneur and patron , as well as the builder of several architecturally remarkable buildings.
Life
Anton Mädler was the owner of the "Royal Saxon Concessionaire Suitcase and Bag Factory Moritz Mädler". This company was founded by Carl Moritz Mädler in Wurzen in 1850 and has had a factory in Leipzig-Lindenau since 1886 . In 1889, the Mädler company became a royal Saxon purveyor to the court .
Kommerzienrat Anton Mädler, who had his representative villa in the noble Leipzig district of Leutzsch , was also a patron . For example, he acquired a winged altar from the Nikolaikirche in Zwickau, which had come into private hands after the Reformation, and donated it to the Leipzig City Museum of Applied Arts in 1908 . The Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig was also financially supported by Mädler.
In 1930 Edgar Moritz Mädler took over the management of the company, from 1945 it had its headquarters in Offenbach am Main , where it was taken over by Goldpfeil after bankruptcy in 1984 . The old connection to Leipzig was revived at the end of the 1950s when Gewandhaus director Fritz Händschke ordered a suitcase for instruments of the Gewandhaus orchestra from Moritz Mädler in 1957. Bags and leather goods from the Mädler company enjoyed great prestige in Germany.
building
Factory building in Leipzig-Lindenau
The remaining components on the factory site in Leipzig-Lindenau, which has been in use since 1886, were renovated in 2012 and converted into residential buildings. The Leipzig real estate company Hildebrand & Jürgens is the investor for the 14 million euro project .
Mädlerhaus Leipzig
In 1900, the Leipzig “Mädlerhaus” was built at Petersstrasse 8, a commercial building with what was then a sensational, large-scale glazed facade in Art Nouveau shapes based on a design by Leipzig architect Leopold Stentzler . The building was destroyed in World War II.
Villa Mädler Leipzig
Anton Mädler's private house in today's Hans-Driesch-Straße 2 in Leipzig-Leutzsch was built in 1902 by the Leipzig architect Julius Zeißig . After 1945 the police and then the state security used the spacious property and built further office buildings, large garages with a gas station and a watchtower. Employee apartments were in the directly adjacent prefabricated buildings. After 1990, the Leipzig Employment Promotion Company (bfb), owned by the City of Leipzig until 2002, was based here, with up to 8,000 employees (unemployed and welfare recipients) at times the largest employment company in Germany.
Madlerhaus Berlin
In 1908 Anton Mädler had the six-storey “Mädlerhaus” built by the Berlin architect Robert Leibnitz at Friedrichstrasse 58 and the corner of Leipziger Strasse in Berlin-Mitte for 550,000 marks . It was largely destroyed in the Second World War, but was reconstructed in 1998.
Mädlerpassage Leipzig
On January 1, 1911, Mädler acquired Auerbach's farm and a neighboring property in the center of Leipzig. In 1912, Mädler had the building from the 1530s demolished and by 1914 the architect Theodor Kösser (1854–1929) erected a new five-storey building as an exhibition center for porcelain goods. The through house comprised a 142-meter-long, four-storey passage with a central octagonal rotunda based on the model of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan . This passage should connect the Naschmarkt with the Neumarkt in the southeast and the Petersstrasse in the southwest. The original concept of a T-shape could not be realized during Mädler's lifetime. The passage was later named Mädlerpassage after him. After protests by the citizens of Leipzig and calls from around the world calling for the famous “Auerbach's Cellar” to be preserved in 1911, the tradition-conscious builder, despite major technical problems, spent considerable additional costs in order to at least preserve these historic rooms. He had the "Goethekeller", the "Lutherkeller" and the lower-lying "Fasskeller" freed of later ingredients and reopened at the end of 1913 with an almost original appearance. Several of the sepia wall paintings there from 1867 with scenes from Goethe's Faust were transferred to panels during the renovation in 1913. In addition, Mädler had a transverse hall built in, with depictions of old Leipzig on the walls, and the new large hall in the style of the early Goethe era , with wall paintings by contemporary artists based on motifs from Faust .
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Wießner: The traveling Gewandhausorchester and the Mädler-cases , Gewandhaus-Magazin No. 75 (2012), pp. 26-30.
- ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung from March 24, 2012
- ^ Wolfgang Hocquél : The architecture of the Leipziger Messe. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-345-00575-1 , pp. 85f.
literature
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Madler, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1864 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1925 |