Gert Mader

Gert Thomas Mader (* 1939 in Bearn near Brno ) is a German building researcher and monument conservator . He was a department head in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

Life

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mader attended schools in Miltenberg and Kulmbach . He then studied at the Technical University of Munich from 1959 to 1967 in architecture . From 1966 to 1970 he worked in a DFG research project a. a. on excavations in Italy, after which he took over the excavation management in Limyra for the German Archaeological Institute and at the same time an assistant position at the Institute for Building History at the Technical University of Munich.

In 1976 he started at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, where he quickly became head of the practical monument preservation department and then for building research. He had lectureships at the University of Munich and the Technical University of Munich, at the latter he became honorary professor in 2000 . He received his doctorate in 1992 on building research as a prerequisite for planning and practice in monument preservation under Gottfried Gruben . This was the basis for the standard work Practical Monument Preservation , written together with Michael Petzet . In 2004 he retired.

Publications (selection)

• with Michael Petzet: Practical monument preservation . Stuttgart, Berlin and Cologne 1993
• Applied building research (materials from the Institute for Building History, Art History), restoration with the Architecture Museum / Technical University of Munich, Faculty of Architecture. Darmstadt 2005. ISBN 3-935243-51-0 .

literature

• Egon Johannes Greipl (Ed.): 100 years of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. 1908-2008. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2008, Volume 1: Balance , ISBN 978-3-7917-2119-4 , p. 341.