Carl Johann Heinrich Röver

Carl Johann Heinrich Röver (short: Heinrich Röver ) (* December 20, 1851 in Beverstedt , † March 27, 1929 in Stade ) was a German organ builder in Stade.

Life

Heinrich Röver was the son of the organ builder Johann Hinrich Röver and brother of the organ builder (Friedrich Wilhelm) Ernst Röver . Heinrich was initially an employee in his father's company, which was converted on July 1, 1881 into an open trading company Johann Hinrich Röver & Sons . Heinrich Röver married Catharina Heinsohn from Freiburg , who was two years his junior and with whom he had four children. When his father left the company on September 1, 1886, Heinrich Röver continued the family business. As a result of the competitive pressure from the organ building of P. Furtwängler & Hammer , which was more industrialized, the company was closed in 1926. In addition, there was the economic decline after the First World War and the death of Heinrich's son, who was intended to be his successor.

plant

19 new organs are documented by Heinrich Röver, 21 in the general partnership with his father and brother. Tonally, he continued the romantic tradition on a high level of craftsmanship. Röver was mainly active in the organ landscape between the Elbe and Weser . With his death, the organ building tradition in Stade, which with Arp Schnitger , Erasmus Bielfeldt , Dietrich Christoph Gloger and the organ building family Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy was able to maintain itself for several centuries, came to an end. Heinrich Röver did intervene in the historical substance of the organs, changed the disposition and set up various organs pneumatically . Nevertheless, it is thanks to the Röver family that the organs in the Stade area have been professionally cared for and preserved for several decades until the organ movement began .

List of works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1883-1884	Lilienthal	St. Marien Monastery Church		II / P	27	New building by Johann Hinrich Röver & Sons ; largely preserved
1884	Aschwarden breakage	St. Nicolai				New building
1886	Opole	St. Nicolai		II / P	10	New building by Johann Hinrich Röver & Sons ; largely preserved
1886	Neuenfelde	St. Pancras		II / P	34	Exchange of 5 registers of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1688); Measures reversed in 1938 by Paul Ott
1887	Neuenwalde	Holy Cross Church		II / P	10	New building
1888	Hollenstedt	St. Andrew				New building
1889	Salzhausen	Church of St. John the Baptist				New building; not received
1890	Job					New building
1892	horst	St. Peter		II / P	8th	New building; largely preserved; Martin Haspelmath added a pedal register
1875-1876 / 94	Stade	St. Wilhadi		III / P	40	Repair of the organ by Erasmus Bielfeldt (1731–35), exchange of registers, installation of a swell box; Measures by Röver and Paul Ott (1937) reversed by Jürgen Ahrend in 1990
1894	Hornburg	Beatae Mariae Virginis		II / P	25th	New building behind the prospectus by Christoph Cuntzius (around 1708)
1895	Scharnebeck	Scharnebeck St. Marien Monastery		II / P	18th	The one-manual predecessor organ (I / P / 10 + 6) was completely removed in 1893; the mechanical action was replaced by a pneumatic one. The new two-manual Röver building was built into the old housing, the Zimbelstern was taken out of service. Modifications were made in 1939 by Gustav Steinmann Orgelbau and dismantling in the direction of Röver in 1953 by Emil Hammer Orgelbau . After exactly 100 years and in complete disrepair, the Hillebrand brothers finally replaced the organ with a completely new one in 1994/95 . → Organ of St. Marien (Scharnebeck)
1894	Eyelet	Patronage Church				New building
1895	Drochtersen	St. Johannis and Catharina		II / P	22nd	Largest new building, behind the prospectus by Johann Daniel Busch (1780); largely preserved; 1992 Martin Haspelmath added a register
1895	Heeslingen	St. Viti				New building
1896-1897	Odisheim	St. Jobst				New building
1897	Lilienthal	St. Juergens Church		II / P	12	New building; largely preserved
1897	Altenwalde	Altenwalde Cross Church				New building
1899	Freiburg / Elbe	St. Wulphardi		II / P	24	Pneumatic action, exchange of some registers; received some registers
1906	Trebel					New building

literature

• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .
• Alexandra Skiebe: Ernst Röver. An organ builder from Stade . Orgelakademie Stade eV, Stade 2008, ISBN 978-3-931879-40-2 (publications of the Orgelakademie Stade; 3).
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Restoration of pneumatic organs. Conference report of the IAOD conference on the restoration of pneumatic organs in August 1993 in Berlin . Pape, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-921140-46-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ : orgel-information.de: The organ of the Johannes-der Täufer -Kirche in Kirchwistedt , accessed on April 3, 2018.

Web links

• Organ information (life and work of Rövers)