Ernst Dossmann

Ernst Dossmann with his novel 50 years firmly in the saddle (October 2009)

Ernst Dossmann (born April 28, 1926 in Iserlohn ) is an architect , local researcher and local curator , writer and painter in Iserlohn. He is the son of the Iserlohn architect Alwin Dossmann .

Life

After graduating from the Märkisches Gymnasium Iserlohn , Dossmann studied architecture in Hanover from 1948 . He was assistant at the chair for urban development and regional planning and passed the main diploma examination in 1953. From 1953 he worked as a freelance architect in Iserlohn. He planned and implemented construction projects across Germany in the private, industrial and public sectors. Over 2,000 buildings bear his signature: churches and chapels, kindergartens and schools, cinemas and theaters, leisure and industrial facilities, administrative buildings and town halls. In his more than 40 active professional years, he has played a decisive role in shaping the face of the city of Iserlohn and the Sauerland in the Brandenburg region . Outstanding public buildings bear his planning handwriting, such as the Parktheater, the new town hall, the Sparkasse Iserlohn and the vocational training center of the Märkischer Kreis district craftsmen.

His love was not only for creating new buildings, but also for preserving historical buildings and their function. Often enough he campaigned vigorously for the preservation of threatened architectural monuments and for the careful handling of cultural achievements. Thanks to his tireless efforts, the Maste-Barendorf factory - an industrial settlement from the 19th century - has become a living, well-known museum.

Architect Dossmann was also committed to architects. He was one of the very early members of the North Rhine-Westphalia Chamber of Architects, who have supported and shaped the work of the Chamber on a voluntary basis for decades. From 1971 to 1995 Ernst Dossmann was a member of the representative assembly of the NRW Chamber of Architects. He was chairman of the supervisory committee of the AKNRW pension fund and deputy chairman of the committee "competition system". He also worked as a competition advisor in the Arnsberg region for over 20 years. He was able to build on his many years of experience as a judge and jury member in numerous competition procedures (e.g. the DEUBAU Prize).

For many years, the architect Dossmann was active in association work and, as chairman, headed the Iserlohn district group of the BDB.

Ernst Dossmann was a district home nurse for over 30 years. In 1969 he was appointed district home nurse for the district of Iserlohn at that time , and from 1976 to 2001 for the Märkischer Kreis . For many years he was involved in a prominent position in the Westphalian Heimatbund and in the Märkische Strasse development association , which is now known as WasserEisenLand e. V. is known. As a member of the board of trustees, he was always looking for and finding new interesting objects for the Westphalian Open-Air Museum in Hagen and then ensured that they were reconstructed in an architecturally and art-historical manner. In addition, he has described the history of the Märkisches Kreis from different perspectives in many publications.

Ernst Dossmann has received several awards for his services in honorary positions: in 1984 he received the Federal Cross of Merit and in 1990 the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class . In 2001 he was awarded the rare ZDH badge of honor by the Central Association of German Crafts (ZDH) for his 50 years of cooperation and the promotion of German craft. In 2007, his outstanding commitment to the preservation of monuments was honored with the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , which was awarded to him by the then Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers . The laudatory speech said:

“He is a native of the Westphalian Sauerland - a Märker with body and soul, an upright champion for the architectural and cultural heritage of the region ... His knowledge of local history is legendary, his name is synonymous with local research and homeland maintenance ... Homeland has us Ernst Dossmann, shown again and again, is neither old-fashioned nor boring, but exciting and, above all, highly topical: because anyone who wants to master the future needs deep roots. Ernst Dossmann has consolidated our Westphalian roots. "

Dossmann wears the ring of honor of the city of Iserlohn and is Colonel of Honor of the Iserlohn Citizens' Rifle Club. He is also an honorary member of the Westphalian Heimatbund, the Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis and the Iserlohner Museums.

Dossmann is the father of Prof. Dr. Martin Dossmann (Mainz) and Annette Dossmann-Vette (Frankfurt). His wife Olga died on May 23, 2009.

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Buildings and designs

• Town halls in Iserlohn (with the Iserlohn Architects working group) and Schalksmühle
• Parktheater Iserlohn (together with the architect Reime)
• Churches in Iserlohn-Nussberg, Kalthof , Bredenbruch , Iserlohner Heide and Werl
• Chapels in Hemer and Frönsberg
• Community houses and kindergartens in Iserlohn (Wermingsen, Nussberg, Gerlingsen , Dördel)
• Iserlohn branch of the South Westphalian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hagen
• Training centers of the South Westphalian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hagen and Siegen
• Vocational training center of the Märkischer Kreis district craft association in Iserlohn
• Education center in Schieke (Upper Harz)
• School centers in Iserlohn, Hemer and Schwerte
• Expansion and renovation of the Sparkasse Iserlohn (main office at Schillerplatz between 1967 and 1998)
• eight branches of Sparkasse Iserlohn
• Volksbanks in Iserlohn, Lüdenscheid and Hagen-Hohenlimburg
• Administration building of the communal data processing center Hellweg-Sauerland
• Industrial buildings for the companies Friedrich Grohe AG (Hemer), Lübbe & Bastei Verlag (Bergisch Gladbach), Papier Union (Bremen, Hamburg, Hemer, Kassel), Sudhaus Söhne (Iserlohn and Witzenhausen), Turk & Bolte (Iserlohn), Kutsch (Attendorn ), Medice (Iserlohn), Schwerter (Iserlohn), Gebr. Möller (Schwerte), Simonswerk (Rheda-Wiedenbrück), WILA (Iserlohn), Herm. Sprenger (Iserlohn), UPS (Iserlohn-Sümmern distribution center).

Fonts

• Iserlohner tobacco tins tell. An insight into the economic, social, political and military conditions and the flourishing ... of well-known Iserlohn industrial products. Verlag Mönnig, Iserlohn 1981, ISBN 3-922885-01-2 .
• In the footsteps of the Counts of the Mark. Interesting facts about the development of the former Grafschaft Mark and the Märkischer Kreis. Verlag Mönnig, Iserlohn 1983, ISBN 3-922885-14-4 .
• Emil Rittershaus, the poet of the Westphalia song. in: Förderkreis. Iserlohn 1984, pp. 84-99.
• Old County Mark paper. Paper production and processing in the economic area between Volme, Ruhr and Hönne. An economic geography and family history study on the development of an important South Westphalian economic branch in the vicinity of the cities of Hagen, Iserlohn, Hemer, Menden, Fröndenberg and Plettenberg. Mönnig Verlag, Iserlohn 1987, ISBN 3-922885-33-0 .
• From the wire roll to the fine wire mill. Mönnig Verlag, Iserlohn 1990, ISBN 3-922885-40-3 .
• with Paul Schieber: Places of silent commemoration - cemeteries and memorials in Iserlohn. Mönnig Verlag, Iserlohn 1999, ISBN 3-933519-13-6 .
• Joke and humor in Westphalia - served with small literary samples. In: Home care in Westphalia. No. 4, 17th year, 2004.
• with Hanswerner Hildenbrand: Alt-Iserlohn. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-86680-286-5 .
• Beloved home - 12 chapters of Iserlohn's home history. Published by the Iserlohner Museen e. V., Iserlohn, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89053-117-5 .
• 50 years firmly in the saddle. In the footsteps of Count Engelbert III. von der Mark, 1330-1391. (historical novel) Mönnig Verlag, Iserlohn 2009, ISBN 978-3-933519-44-3 .
• Annette Dossmann-Vette (Ed.): On the road with Ernst Dossmann ... the rhyming and the unruly. Iserlohn, 2013, ISBN 978-3-933519-57-3 .
• Ernst Dossmann (Ed.): Dreams - Conceived - Experienced. Mönnig-Verlag, Iserlohn, 2016, ISBN 978-3-933519-77-1 .
• Iserlohn's change from a mining town to a "factory town" . in: Contributions to local history, Volume 23, 2019. Ed .: Förderkreis Iserlohner Museen eV, pp. 21–66, ISBN 978-3-89053-158-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Dossmann in the catalog of the German National Library