Georg Jann

Georg Jann (born January 17, 1934 in Kalkberge ; † February 12, 2019 in Brazil ) was a German organ builder .

Life

In 1948 Georg Jann began an organ building apprenticeship with Alexander Schuke in Potsdam . From 1961 onwards, he and his family took him through Switzerland and West Berlin to Regensburg . There he took over the long-established Eduard Hirnschrodt organ building workshop in the Stadtamhof district of Regensburg in 1974 . In 1975, Opus 2 for the Etzelwang community was completed in the new workshop . A short time later, the company received its first orders for three-manual organs with over 40 registers. In 1980 the first four-manual organ for the St. Joseph Church in Memmingen with 52 registers was completed. The workshop was later relocated to Allkofen near Laberweinting in Lower Bavaria , 25 kilometers south of Regensburg .

Georg Jann managed his company "Georg Jann Orgelbau Meisterbetrieb" until 1995, when he handed over the parent company to his second son, the organ builder Thomas Jann. Since then, the workshop has been called Thomas Jann Orgelbau GmbH. Georg Jann moved the pipe workshop to Portugal . At the end of 2005 he handed over this company, called "Orguian", to his eldest son, Detlef Jann. From 2006 Georg Jann lived in Brazil and ran a small organ building workshop there. He died there on February 12, 2019 and is buried in Blumenau .

Selection of manufactured organs

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1977	Simple	St. George		II / P	16	Opus 1: Hirnschrodt / Jann, Funtsch prospectus 1773
1975	Etzelwang	St. Martin		I / P	7th	Opus 2, first independent new building by Georg Jann-
1977	Kümmersbruck	St. Wolfgang (Kümmersbruck)		II / P	16
1978	Bad Tölz	City parish church Maria Himmelfahrt		III / P	37	Prospectus by Balthasar Pröbstl from 1861 → Organ
1978	regensburg	Holy cross		II / P	17th	Hidden in the Siemann case behind the choir grille in the nun's choir.
1979	Scheyern	Monastery Church of the Holy Cross and the Assumption of Mary		III / P	39	→ organ
1980	Memmingen	St. Joseph		IV / P	52
1980	Tegernsee	Monastery church		III / P	33	→ organ
1982	Straubing	St. Peter		II / P	17th
1983	Gerzen	St. George		II / P	23
1984	Germering	St. Cecilia		II / P	26th
1984	Landshut	Holy blood		II / P	17th
1985	postage	cathedral		III / P	45
1986	Ingolstadt	Maria de Victoria		II / P	26th	Brochure by Caspar König from 1740. Reconstruction by Kuhn Organ Builders in 2007.
1986	Niederaichbach	Parish Church of St. Joseph		II / P	18th	→ organ
1986	Niederaltaich	Monastery church		IV / P	48	Caspar König's brochure from 1727
1986	regensburg	Neupfarrkirche		III / P	41
1987	Munich	St. Sebastian		III / P	35	Opus 140 → Organ
1988	Pfeffenhausen	St. Martin		III / P	31	Opus 142
1989	Waldsassen	Collegiate Basilica		V / P	103
1994	Munich	Liebfrauendom		IV / P	95	Opus 199 → Organ
1995	Landshut	St. Wolfgang		II / P	28	Opus 211 last work before the company was handed over to his son Thomas → Organ

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Messages via Facebook . February 12, 2019 ( facebook.com [accessed February 12, 2019]).
2. ^ History. In: Thomas Jann Orgelbau GmbH. Retrieved March 3, 2011 .  
3. ↑ Welcome to Orguian Lda. In: Orguian, Organ Pipes from Portugal. Retrieved March 3, 2011 .  
4. ↑ Georg Jann - Mestre construtor de órgãos nas páginas since German wave. Centro de Cultral 25 de Julho de Blumenau, October 11, 2011, accessed January 7, 2018 (Portuguese). 
5. ↑ We mourn for OBM Georg Jann. February 14, 2019, accessed February 14, 2019 .