Fritz Fichtner

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Paul Fritz Fichtner (born June 16, 1890 in Dresden , † September 9, 1969 in Erlangen ) was a German art historian and Christian archaeologist .

Life

The son of the district school teacher Paul Fichtner attended the state grammar school in Dresden and the teachers' seminar in Zschopau , where he took the final exam in 1910 and then worked as a primary school teacher in Dresden-Lockwitz until 1912 . In 1912 he passed the state examination in education and studied from 1912 to 1913 at the State Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Applied Arts in Dresden. After participating in the First World War , he acquired the academy diploma for higher education and in 1918 became a teacher at the first secondary school in Leipzig , from 1919 to 1933 he was employed as a teacher at the state high school in Dresden-Neustadt .

In addition, he studied 1918/19 at the university and at the Academy for Graphic Arts in Leipzig, and from 1919 to 1921 at the Technical University of Dresden , where he also worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Art History and Monument Preservation. In 1921 he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig under Wilhelm Pinder , this only with special ministerial permission, as he did not have a general high school diploma. From 1922 to 1924 he was an assistant at the Institute for Art History and Monument Preservation at the Technical University of Dresden, where he completed his habilitation in 1923 and was appointed associate professor in 1928. From 1925 to 1928 he worked as a volunteer at the State Collections in Dresden. He was also active as a lecturer in arts from 1928 to 1933 at the Academy of Applied Arts and from 1928 to 1936 at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1929 he became head of department at the practical-pedagogical seminar at the Technical University of Dresden.

In addition to teaching, Fichtner was initially an assistant at the porcelain collection from 1929 , from 1931 he became its acting director, and on February 1, 1933 its director. He had been an NSDAP since January 1933 - and a member of the SA since June . In addition to the porcelain collection, he became head of the Kunstgewerbemuseum and in 1937 a museum advisor in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior and a kind of general director of the Dresden State Collections. In these functions he operated the ideological orientation of the collections and their employees. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . He was involved in the expropriation of Jewish art property. From 1939 he was responsible for the evacuation of Dresden's art treasures.

After his release from captivity in 1945, he settled in Coburg and in January 1948 was classified as a “ fellow traveler ”. From autumn 1948 he taught first with a teaching position, from 1951 as an adjunct professor, from 1955 as a full professor at the seminar for Christian archeology and art history at the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Erlangen . At the same time he had a teaching position at the Philosophical-Theological University in Bamberg from 1949 to 1954 . He retired in 1958, but held the chair until 1961, when Ernst Adalbert Voretzsch was his successor .

Fichtner had been active in war grave care since the First World War and was one of the founders of the Cemetery and Monument Working Group .

literature

Web links

  • Biography at Art History in the Post-War Period 1945–55 , KIT

Individual evidence

  1. Birth register StA Dresden I, No. 1187/1890.