Arthur Hugo Göpfert (master builder)

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Arthur Hugo Göpfert , also Artur Göpfert , (born November 13, 1872 in Freiberg ; † June 19, 1949 in Frauenstein ) was a German builder , architect and state politician ( National Liberal Party ) as well as an autodidactic regional historian (castle researcher in the Ore Mountains).

Live and act

Göpfert's father was the Freiberg builder Carl Göpfert. Göpfert's brother Max Richard also became a builder and architect. After attending the building trade school, Göpfert studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden . He became a member of the Corps Marcomannia Dresden . He worked as a builder and architect in Freiberg before moving to Frauenstein in 1897. There in the Ore Mountains he began as a regional historian before 1900 with a collection of patriotic antiquities and began with archive studies on the Frauenstein castle ruins and other castles in the Eastern Ore Mountains . From 1901 to 1939 he was in charge of excavation and securing work on the Frauensteiner castle ruins, with which he saved Saxony's largest castle ruins from final decline.

Göpfert joined the National Liberal Party around 1900 , which he represented from 1909/10 to 1917/18 as a member of the 13th rural constituency (Erzgebirge) in the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament .

Göpfert married Jenny born in 1909. Noon († 1967); he had the two sons Joachim and Arthur and the daughter Marie Therese.

In the 1920s, Göpfert turned away from established historical studies: In order to prove that the Fryasburg in the Ura Linda Chronicle, which Herman Wirth used for his ethnographic theses , was identical with Frauenstein, he stood with völkischen for the next twenty years In contact with prehistory researchers such as Hans Reinerth , Wilhelm Teudt and others. With his ideas he aroused the interest of the NSDAP ideologist Alfred Rosenberg in himself ; “It is not known whether the planned meeting of the two took place in Berlin.” Göpfert tried “to use the interests of the National Socialists for his own purposes, but retained his liberal orientation”.

He was a follower of the Confessing Church ; Meetings with Friedrich Delekat , for example, are known.

At the end of the Second World War in 1945, Göpfert became the founder of the CDU local group Frauenstein and a city ​​councilor .

Fonts

  • Guide through Frauenstein and the surrounding area. (published by the Erzgebirgsverein zu Frauenstein) Frauenstein around 1905.
  • Frauenstein in the Ore Mountains. In: Glückauf! , No. 46/1926, pp. 110-120.
  • Max Dittrich: Castle and town of Frauenstein. Frauenstein 1932.
  • Ancient knowledge and customs of the year men. (around 1940, unpublished major work, in the estate)

literature

  • One of the upright †. In: Die Union of June 22, 1949, p. 3.
  • W. Gorzny (Ed.): German Biographical Archive. New series up to the middle of the 20th century. Munich 1989-1993, pp.
  • Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 246 (image source), p. 378.
  • Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History. Saxon State Parliament, Dresden 2011, p.?.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. Darmstadt 1928, p. 126.
  2. ↑ Burg Frauenstein Association
  3. ↑ a b Konstantin Hermann: Göpfert, Arthur Hugo . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
personal data
SURNAME Göpfert, Arthur Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göpfert, Arthur (common attribution); Göpfert, Artur; Göpfert, A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder, architect and politician (NLP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1949
Place of death Frauenstein (Ore Mountains)