German Bestelmeyer

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German Johann Georg Bestelmeyer (born June 8, 1874 in Nuremberg ; † June 30, 1942 in Bad Wiessee ) was a German architect and university professor . Most of the buildings realized by Bestelmeyer are located in southern Germany.

life and work

Bestelmeyer was born in 1874 as the son of a military doctor. From 1893 to 1897 he studied at the Technical University of Munich with Friedrich von Thiersch and at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts with Friedrich von Schmidt . He then worked as a state building referendar in Nuremberg, as a building authority assessor at the Landbauamt Regensburg and from 1905 to 1909 as a building assessor at the university building authority in Munich.

In 1910 he was appointed professor at the Technical University of Dresden to succeed Fritz Schumacher . In 1911 Bestelmeyer took over a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden as the successor to Paul Wallot and in 1915 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin as the successor to Johannes Otzen . In 1919 he was also appointed professor at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg . From 1922 he taught as a professor (successor to Friedrich von Thiersch ) at the Technical University of Munich. From 1924 to 1942 he was President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

As early as 1928, together with Paul Bonatz , Paul Schmitthenner , Wilhelm Kreis and Paul Schultze-Naumburg, he had formed the architects' association “ Der Block ” as a counter-model to the modernist-avant-garde “ Der Ring ” by the architects Bruno Taut , Walter Gropius and Erich Mendelsohn . As the President of the Academy in Munich, he determined the conservative direction of Munich architecture and repeatedly campaigned against progressive approaches such as those by Theodor Fischer , Adolf Abel , Robert Vorhoelzer and Richard Riemerschmid , often with the backing of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture . He organized u. a an exhibition of works by the Norwegian draftsman Olaf Gulbransson and ensured the extension of his teaching period at the Academy of Arts. As a university lecturer in Munich, he was jointly responsible for ensuring that the teaching staff was not only brought into line through dismissals and politically motivated new appointments, but was also asserted with representatives of National Socialism.

Bestelmeyer was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and the ethnic , anti-Semitic Kampfbund for German culture . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP in 1933. In 1935 he was appointed Reich Cultural Senator. At his instigation, Hitler received the Gold Medal of Honor of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1937, because Hitler "put the national idea as the focus of intellectual life and a guideline for the arts in his old law ." In 1938 Bestelmeyer was with various projects at the first German Architecture Exhibition National Socialist House of German Art .

After Bestelmeyer's death, Hitler ordered a state funeral. The body was transferred to Munich, laid out in the Academy of Fine Arts, and on July 4, 1942, flanked by 300 HJ members , brought to the atrium of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. The funeral ceremony took place there in the presence of Joseph Goebbels and representatives of the movement's capital . Then Bestelmeyer was buried in close family circles in the forest cemetery.

Bestelmeyer had been a member of the RSC- Corps Lusatia Dresden since 1914 .

Works (selection)

buildings

  • Atrium of the university in Munich

  • Old town house in Bonn

  • former Reich debt administration in Berlin

  • Peace Church in Nuremberg

  • Krochhochhaus in Leipzig

  • Christ Church in Neuburg on the Danube

  • Gustav-Adolf-Gedächtnis-Kirche in Nuremberg

  • Congress building (front) of the Deutsches Museum in Munich

  • Jakobus Church in Oberkotzau

  • former Luftgaukommando in Munich

  • Stephanuskirche in Munich

  • Melanchthon Church in Nuremberg

  • Dörnberg Mausoleum Ev. Regensburg Central Cemetery

  • Alumneum Regensburg, today the house of the church

Monuments

literature

  • Fritz Stahl (introduction): German Bestelmeyer. (= Neue Werkkunst .) FE Hübsch, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1928.
  • Werner Hegemann (introduction): German Bestelmeyer. (= Neue Werkkunst .) FE Hübsch, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1929.
  • Otto Schubert:  Bestelmeyer, German Johann Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 184 ( digitized version ).
  • Heinz Thiersch: German Bestelmeyer. His life and work for architecture. Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1961.
  • Florian Koch: German Bestelmeyer (1874–1942), architect. Tradition as an illusion of permanence. The southern German church building, romantic-retrospective traditionalism in sacred buildings of the twenties and thirties. Munich 2001.
  • Hartmut Petzold : German Bestelmeyer and the second construction phase of the Deutsches Museum. In: Elisabeth Vaupel , Stefan L. Wolff (eds.): The German Museum in the time of National Socialism. An inventory. Göttingen 2010, pp. 287-319.

Web links

Commons : German Bestelmeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From a publication about the ( Memento of September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) landscape painter Edmund Steppes (1873–1968) and his vision of a “German painting”.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Hermann; Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): The Technical University of Munich under National Socialism, TUM.University Press Munich 2018, p. 202 ff.
  3. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 48.
  4. ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 334
  5. ^ Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 324 .
  6. ^ Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 804-805 .
  7. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  8. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  9. ^ WH: St. Johannis Church of Peace in Nuremberg. Architect: German Bestelmeyer . In: Wasmuthsmonthshefte für Baukunst, vol. 13, 1929, pp. 511–516 ( digitized version )
  10. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  11. ↑ Homepage of the Erlöserkirche in Schwabing
personal data
SURNAME Bestelmeyer, German
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bestelmeyer, German Johann Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1942
Place of death Bad Wiessee