Clemens Thieme (architect)

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Clemens Thieme
at the age of 33

Clemens Thieme (born May 13, 1861 in Borna ; † November 11, 1945 in Leipzig ) was a German architect . He initiated the construction of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig.

Life

Kurt Lisso as representative of the city of Leipzig honors Clemens Thieme on the occasion of his 80th birthday, May 13, 1941

Clemens Thieme was the son of a minor civil servant. After studying architecture at the Royal Saxon Building Trade School in Leipzig and at the Dresden Polytechnic, he worked as a freelance architect in Leipzig from 1887 . Some of the houses he built have been preserved.

Thieme was also the project manager of the Kingdom of Saxony for the construction of Leipzig Central Station , and he advocated the variant of the central terminus .

His most important merit was his initiative for the building of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations . In 1892 he took on the task of accelerating efforts to erect a national monument for the Battle of Nations, which had already failed several times. In 1894 he initiated the establishment of the German Patriot Association and organized the financing of the monument building. To do this, he called for donations and set up a lottery. The design by the architect Bruno Schmitz was modified or supplemented in essential points by Thieme; for example the installation of the crypt and the installation of the freedom guards and the summit stone. The construction was also carried out under the direction of Thieme.

Thieme is also one of the initiators of the Saxon-Thuringian Industrial and Commercial Exhibition in Leipzig in 1897 .

From 1888 Thieme was a member of the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Apollo . Here he was a master according to the classification .

His grave facing the Völkerschlachtdenkmal

Clemens Thieme died at the age of 84 on November 11, 1945 in Leipzig. He was buried in the Leipzig South Cemetery at the foot of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations (XII. Department, election point 146). The grave was redesigned as an honor grave.

Honors

Grave site redesigned to honor grave
  • In 1913, Thieme was made an honorary citizen of the city of Leipzig in recognition of his services to the building of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations, which was inaugurated in the same year .
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded Thieme the 4th Class Red Eagle Order on the occasion of the inauguration of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in 1913 . The Saxon press evaluated this “honor” as an affront in view of the low class of the order. According to tradition, Thieme rejected the order.
  • He carried the non-academic title of Privy Councilor .
  • In 2001 a street in the Leipzig district of Liebertwolkwitz was named after Thieme (Clemens-Thieme-Straße).
  • The "Clemens Thieme" elementary school in his hometown Borna was named after him.

Buildings (selection)

  • Körnerplatz 7 (1890)
  • Paul-Gruner-Strasse 16 (1888–1890)
  • Beethovenstrasse 31 (1895)
  • Nordplatz 1 (1888–1890)
  • Tschaikowskistraße 4
  • At the Verfassungslinde 22 (storage building of the music publisher CF Peters)
  • Völkerschlachtdenkmal (1898–1913, initiator and builder)
  • Leipzig Central Station (1909–1915, project management)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. PRO LEIPZIG 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 594.
  2. ^ A b Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the present. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 287.
  3. ↑ Dominik Petzold: The Kaiser and the cinema. Staging of power, popular culture and film propaganda in the Wilhelminian era. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, p. 116.
  4. ↑ Sabine Ebert : Consecration: jubilation, hustle and bustle and scandals. Sunday, October 18, 1913. In: Helga and Egbert Rötsch, Thomas Nabert: Völkerschlacht: Commemoration on historical postcards. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2013, pp. 116–117.
personal data
SURNAME Thieme, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Borna
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1945
Place of death Leipzig