Friedrich Gerhardt (organ builder)

Johann Friedrich Gerhardt (born November 1, 1826 in Kölleda , † April 25, 1922 in Merseburg ) was a German organ builder . From 1853 to 1863 he ran his workshop in Kölleda. Then he moved her to Merseburg, where he worked until 1894.

Life

Friedrich Gerhardt was born the son of a farmer and magistrate assistant in Kölleda and was baptized there on November 9, 1826. His second godfather was the local organ builder Johann Christoph Damm, with whom he probably completed an apprenticeship from 1840. This was followed by journeyman years with Johann Michael Hesse in Dachwig , Urban Creutzbach in Borna , Carl August Buchholz in Berlin , Franz Wilhelm Sonreck , Cologne , Wilhelm Korfmacher , Aachen , and Johann Claussen Schmid , Oldenburg . His years of traveling also took him to organ builders in Belgium , France and Northern Italy before opening his own workshop in his hometown in 1853.

List of works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1857	Wallroda ( Bad Bibra )	Village church		I / P	8th
1870	Memleben	St. Martin village church		II / P	17th
1876	Merseburg	City Church of St. Maximi		III / P	46
1878	Wolmirstedt	Village church		II / P	12
1880	bad Godesberg	Ev. Parish hall		II / P	15th
1881	Bad Tennstedt	Ev. church		III / P	51
1881	Soest	Wiesenkirche		III / P	33

literature

• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 89 .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Information from the baptismal register of the Kölleda church book