Friedrich Mielke

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Friedrich Mielke (born September 20, 1921 in Neuneck ; † September 30, 2018 in Konstein ) was a German conservationist and university professor whose specialty was stair research .

Life

Inspection of a variant of the Laurin staircase built by Friedrich Mielke in Konstein in 1991

Friedrich Mielke was a son of the builder of the same name Friedrich Mielke (* July 26, 1887; † November 2, 1960) from Lübenheen (Mecklenburg) and his wife Marie, b. Kiecksee (born June 26, 1901; † June 22, 1969) from Zapel (Mecklenburg).

On December 24, 1945 Mielke married Ilse Juliane, b. Easter wind.

Mielke studied architecture . He had been involved in monument conservation since 1949, first in Schwerin , then in Potsdam . In 1957 he was at the Technical University of Dresden Dr.-Ing. PhD . In 1958 he left the GDR . After his habilitation in 1959 at the Technical University of Berlin , he taught there from 1969 to 1980 as a professor in the field of monument preservation.

Because of his services to the preservation of historic Potsdam architecture, Friedrich Mielke was awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Potsdam in 1991 .

Mielke is considered to be the founder of research into historical stairs (scalalogy). In 1980 he founded the private office for stair research in Konstein ( Upper Bavaria ), in 1985 the Society for Stair Research eV ; In 2012, the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg took over the position as the Friedrich Mielke Institute for Scalalogy . Mielke was an honorary senator of the OTH Regensburg.

Mielke was a member of the Koldewey Society (1960), a corresponding member of the Compagnie des Architectes en Chef des Monuments Historiques en France (1966) and a full member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (1972). In 1973 Mielke founded the working group of lecturers for monument preservation in the Federal Republic of Germany (since 1976 working group theory and teaching of monument preservation eV). From 1974 he was a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Die Alte Stadt". He was a member of the German National Committee for Monument Protection (from 1975) and the scientific advisory board of the German Castle Association .

Publications (selection)

as author:

  • The stairs of the Potsdam town house in the 18th century. Dissertation, Dresden 1957.
  • The Dutch Quarter in Potsdam . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1960 (also habilitation thesis, TU Berlin 1959).
  • Potsdam as it was . Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1963 (together with Max Baur ).
  • The history of the German stairs . Ernst Verlag, Berlin 1966.
  • The community center in Potsdam . Wasmuth, Tübingen 1972. 2 volumes, text and picture part, ISBN 3-8030-0016-5 ; ISBN 3-8030-0017-3 .
  • The future of the past . DVA, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-02456-1 .
  • The Berlin monument to Frederick the Great . The drafts as a reflection of the Prussian self-image . DVA, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-549-06619-8 .
  • Scale ad Ercolano . 1976.
  • Potsdam architecture. Classic Potsdam . 2nd edition Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-549-05668-0 .
  • with Josef Lidl : stairs. Between Tauber, Rezat and Altmühl . Keller Verlag, Treuchtlingen 1985, ISBN 3-924828-03-2 .
  • Les escaliers allemands de la fin du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance . In: L'escalier dans l'architecture de la renaissance. Actes du colloque tenu à Tours du 22 to 26 May 1979 . Picard, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-7084-0129-7 , pp. 189-206.
  • with Jolanta Stranzenbach, Stanisław Klimek : Stairs in Breslau . Laboratory for stair research, Konstein 1990.
  • Handbook of stairs science . Edition Schäfer, Hanover 1993, ISBN 3-88746-312-9 .
  • Handrails and railings . Verlag Vögel, Stamsried 2003, ISBN 3-89650-171-2 .
  • Against destruction and forgetting , ed. by N. Blumert and K. Wunder, node publishing house, Potsdam 2015, ISBN 978-3-939090-12-0 .

as editor:

  • Scalalogia. Writings on international stair research . Vol. 1, 1985 ff. (Appears irregularly at the Society for Stair Research ).

estate

Friedrich Mielke's estate is in the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Oelschläger: Friedrich Mielke is dead. In: Märkische Allgemeine. October 2, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  2. ^ Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage , accessed on September 8, 2019
  3. ↑ Honorary Senators and Honorary Members. OTH Regensburg; Retrieved July 29, 2017.
  4. ↑ Hans-Rudolf Meier : Prolegomena for the history of our association. For the foundation of the working group Theory and Teaching of Monument Preservation eV forty (and more) years ago. In: Structural Change - Monument Change. Reconstruction - conversion - reinterpretation. Urban and rural areas under pressure to convert. (= Publication of the working group Theory and Teaching of Monument Preservation , Volume 25.) Holzminden 2016, p. 12 f.
  5. ^ GStA PK, signature: VI. HA, Nl Mielke, F. ( proof of inventory )
personal data
SURNAME Mielke, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conservationist and university professor, stair researcher
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuneck
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2018
Place of death Konstein