Günter Gall (museum director)

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Günter Gall (born July 23, 1924 in Berlin ; † December 9, 2008 ) was a German art historian . He headed the German Leather Museum in Offenbach and wrote books on the history of architecture and leather .

Life

Born in Berlin, the son of the art historian, ministerial official and later director of the Prussian Administration of State Palaces and Gardens, Ernst Gall grew up in Potsdam , where he passed his school leaving examination. He then served in the Wehrmacht and became a prisoner of war . After his release in 1945, he began studying art history , archeology and prehistory and early history , which took him first to Kiel and then to Munich . He finished his studies in 1951 and did his doctorate on the architectural history of the Regensburg Cathedral .

His application for a job advertisement from the German Shoe Museum was successful. Its founder and director, Hugo Eberhardt , was an architect himself and made the newly qualified architectural historian his assistant in 1952. When Eberhardt died in 1959, he was his successor. In 1960 he expanded the museum, and a second followed in 1981. In 1983 he received the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany. He retired in 1989, but in 1999 made himself available again for one year as acting head.

Since the 1950s he has made contributions to the “ New German Biography ” in the fields of architecture and leather trade and has written numerous essays and books on his specialty areas “Leather” and “Cathedral Churches”. In 1956 he was a co-founder of the Offenbach Rotary Club , in which he was increasingly involved after retirement. He also passed on his expertise in lectures. The father of two sons died in the first half of December 2008 at the age of 84.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Regensburg Cathedral. Studies on the planning of the Gothic cathedral and on changes during construction. Dissertation Munich 1951.
  • Cathedral of St. Martin and St. Stephan in Mainz (= major architectural monuments. Issue 146). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1956.
  • Leather in European handicrafts. A manual for collectors and enthusiasts (= library for lovers of art and antiques. Volume 44). Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1965.
  • Wallet. German Leather Museum, Offenbach 1970.
  • German Leather Museum. Crafts, folklore, ethnology, technical engineering. German Leather Museum, Offenbach 1967.
  • with Renate Wente-Lukas: German Leather Museum, German Shoe Museum Offenbach. Westermann, Braunschweig 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Günter Gall - museum director and cruise lecturer . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 25, 1994, p. 26. (FAZ online archive, accessed on September 16, 2013)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society. Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., Munich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , p. 130.
  3. ↑ Lothar Braun: 1917: About the "Schnorrer" and his Minneebox . ( Memento from January 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Originally in: Offenbach-Post , December 10, 2008, most recently online at offenbach.de .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Former museum director Günter Gall is dead . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 16, 2008 (online at fr-online.de, accessed September 16, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Gall, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2008