Günter Voigt (dentist)

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Günter Voigt (born August 22, 1955 in Dresden ) is a German dentist and promoter of culture in Dresden.

life and work

Voigt addressed the idea of ​​rebuilding the Frauenkirche in Dresden in an open letter to the Saxon regional bishop Johannes Hempel on Reformation Day 1989 in the time of upheaval . He gathered like-minded people and was the initiator of the call from Dresden .

In 1990 he laid the first foundations for the dental professional policy in Saxony with the establishment of the dental association and chamber . After the initiative to found it, he became vice chairman of the association "Niedergelassene Zahnärzte Sachsens eV"

Together with the cellist Jan Vogler , he founded the “Dresdner Compact Disc” project for recording chamber music in connection with the Moritzburg Festival in 1994 . CD recordings were made with the festival's artists, including Jan Vogler, Kai Vogler , Peter Bruns , Roglit Ishay and Mira Wang as well as the Dresden Kapellsolisten . In 1996 he self-published a biography of the Dresden photographer Emil Römmler (1842–1941), to which the state curator Heinrich Magirius wrote a foreword.

In October 2000 Voigt was a co-founder of the Friends of the Great Garden Palace , for which he was the organizer of a demonstration for the preservation of the baroque gem in accordance with the listed buildings. In the following year he initiated a tunnel project together with the Nobel Prize winner Günter Blobel and the Friends of Dresden from New York to offer an alternative to the controversial Waldschlößchenbrücke in the UNESCO World Heritage Site . Since the bridge was built anyway, the Elbe Valley lost its World Heritage title in 2009.

Publications

  • Emil Römmler (1842–1941). Memoirs of a royal Saxon court photographer. An amusing Wilhelminian autobiography and a contribution to the history of photography, collotype and color printing processes in Dresden. Self-published, Dresden 1996, ISBN 3-00-000844-6 .

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