Bernd Vollmar

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Bernd Uwe Vollmar (* 1951 in Altenfurt ) is a German art historian and monument conservator . From 1996 to 2017 he was head of the department for practical monument preservation at architectural and art monuments of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

Life

Bernd Vollmar completed an apprenticeship as a draftsman from 1966 to 1969 and was briefly active in this field. He then studied architecture at the Nuremberg University of Applied Sciences , later art history, classical archeology and modern history at the University of Erlangen . He received his doctorate in 1983 from Bernhard Rupprecht on the German Palladio edition by Georg Andreas Böckler from 1698.

From 1973 he worked for four years at the Office for Monument Preservation of the City of Nuremberg , then also in an architecture office . In 1983 he started at the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, where he worked as an area officer a. a. was responsible for Swabia for a long time . In 1966 he was first head of department for Northern Bavaria, after a structural reform of the office in 2002, he was department head for all of Bavaria, most recently also deputy curator general. One of the main focuses of his work was the mediation of monument preservation both during on-site visits with those involved and at countless training events organized by various providers. In terms of content, he dealt with the research and preservation of rural, bourgeois, aristocratic and ecclesiastical architecture such as the buildings of the city of Nördlingen, with the building history of the castles in Friedberg and Leitheim , with Jewish cultural heritage such as the synagogues in Hainsfarth and Binswangen , with buildings in Augsburg such as the Holy Sepulcher Chapel and the former imperial department store of Elias Holl in Augsburg and the Kurhaus theater in Augsburg-Göggingen. In the later years, the preservation of monuments on buildings from the 1970s and 1980s and the problem of energetic improvements in monuments formed a focus.

In 2017 he retired from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD).

On July 20, 2018, he was elected third speaker in the Bavarian Monument Network . In March 2017, Johannes Haslauer resigned as speaker. He took on new tasks in the Bavarian Cultural Heritage Association .

Important publications

  • City of Noerdlingen. Monuments in Bavaria, Vol. 90, 1998.
  • The former synagogue Hainsfarth. Nördlingen: Rieser Kulturtage, 1996.
  • The German Palladio edition by Georg Andreas Böckler, Nuremberg 1698. Ansbach: Historischer Verein für Mittelfranken, 1983.

Web links

literature

  • Egon Johannes Greipl (Ed.): 100 Years of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: 1908–2008. Regensburg 2008, p. 345.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.denkmalnetzbayern.de/index.php/menueeintrag/index/id/17/seite_id/2017
  2. ↑ Organization. Bayerischer Landesverein für Heimatpflege, 2018, accessed on December 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Vollmar, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vollmar, Bernd Uwe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenfurt