Fried Lübbecke

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Fried Lübbecke's last residence in Frankfurt, Schöne Aussicht 16, in Treuner's old town model

August Friedrich Krono , called Fried Lübbecke (born July 3, 1883 in Wittenberge , † October 25, 1965 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) was a German art historian .

Life

Lübbecke was the son of a railway official. After numerous changes of residence and school in his youth, he obtained the one-year degree at the Christianeum in Altona in 1897 and then went to sea on a fish steamer . After a short time, however, he moved back to grammar school and in 1904 passed his school leaving examination in Stade . He studied theology and art history in Tübingen , Munich and Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1908 with a dissertation on the Gothic sculpture in Cologne . In 1909 he married the Bonn-born pianist Emma Job (1888–1982). After a time as a drawing teacher at the State Drawing Academy in Hanau , he moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1911 , where he worked as a journalist, book author and director of the art fair.

Schöppenbrunnen in the Fried-Lübbecke-Anlage in Frankfurt am Main

In 1922 he founded the Association of Active Old Town Friends , which set itself the task of maintaining and renovating Frankfurt's old town . Among other things, Lübbecke promoted the work on the old town model of the Treuner brothers and arranged for the Council frescos in the Carmelite monastery to be exposed . From 1916 until the destruction of the old town on March 22, 1944, he lived in the neo-classical building Schöne Aussicht 16 , in which Arthur Schopenhauer and Tycho Mommsen , among others, had previously lived. His commitment to the renovation of neglected old town houses and to the old town residents who got into distress due to inflation and the global economic crisis earned him the nickname "Old Town Father". His publications, especially the photo volumes created with Paul Wolff between 1923 and 1932, brought the old town back to the attention of the Frankfurt public. In 1924 he founded a year-round recreational home for the old town children on the Mainwasen on the Sachsenhausen shore, where 40 children from the poorest old town families could be taken in and looked after for four weeks. In 1935 there was a conflict with the authorities because Lübbecke refused to hand over the leisure home to the National Socialist organizations. Lübbecke was forbidden to enter the Römer, friends of the old town had to move their offices to the club's own Fürsteneck house .

After the destruction of his life's work, he moved to Bad Homburg and wrote numerous books about the submerged Frankfurt old town, including (with Georg Hartmann ) the illustrated book Alt Frankfurt - ein Vermächtnis (1950), the topographical description of the face of the city (1952) and the monograph on Das Palais Thurn und Taxis in Frankfurt am Main (1955). In 1944, Lübbecke had been commissioned by the city to prevent the abandonment of historical buildings or other valuable buildings . After the end of the war he was assigned to the city chancellery to prepare for the reconstruction of the Paulskirche and the centenary of the Frankfurt National Assembly . Lübbecke advocated the partial restoration of the old town, which brought him into conflict with the city's reconstruction plans. That is why he took early retirement at his own request in October 1947. Until his death in 1965 he remained chairman of the Old Town Association and a member of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . His grave is in the forest cemetery in Bad Homburg .

Honors

The city of Bad Homburg dedicated Fried-Lübbecke-Platz to him not far from his last residence (Am Mühlberg 11).

The city of Frankfurt paid tribute to his work by naming a place in Frankfurt's old town in Fried-Lübbecke-Anlage . The Schöppenbrunnen with the statue of Franz I by the artist and sculptor Johann Michael Datzerath from 1776 is also located here. The Fried-Lübbecke School in Alt-Eschersheim is also named after him. In 1959 he was honored with a cast bronze medal from the Association of Active Old Town Friends (by C. Wagner) as "Old Town Father". In 1963 he was awarded the Goethe plaque from the city of Frankfurt am Main .

In 1983, on the occasion of his 100th birthday, the Frankfurter Verein für Geschichte und Landeskunde (today: Society for Frankfurter Geschichte ) and the Friends of Frankfurt (emerged from the Association of Old Town Friends he founded in 1922 ) dedicated the books published by Wolfgang Klötzer with drawings by Richard Enders to him illustrated anthology Die Frankfurter Altstadt. A memory . Also included is a résumé written by Fried Lübbecke from 1962.

Works (selection)

  • Wilhelm Steinhausen , Bielefeld and Leipzig 1914
  • The sculpture of the German Middle Ages , 2 volumes (text and picture book), Munich 1922

Lübbecke also wrote several books on the Frankfurt area, including

  • Frankfurt am Main - Workshop of German Unity , Breidenstein Publishing Company, 1938.
  • Hanau. City and county , Cologne, 1951.
  • The face of the city , Frankfurt am Main, Kramer, 1952.
  • Frankfurt am Main, Goethe's home , Frankfurt am Main, Kramer, 1955.
  • Little fatherland. Homburg vor der Höhe , Frankfurt am Main. Kramer, 1956.
  • Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt am Main, Umschau Verlag, 1965, 6th edition.
  • The Muschelsaal (autobiography), Frankfurt am Main, Kramer, 1960.

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personal data
SURNAME Luebbecke, Fried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1965
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe