Hans-Joachim Schuke

Hans-Joachim Schuke (born January 7, 1908 in Potsdam ; † July 20, 1979 there ) was a German organ builder. He was the son of the organ builder Alexander Schuke and continued to run his father's company, the Alexander Schuke Orgelbauanstalt Potsdam , today Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau GmbH .

Life

Hans-Joachim Schuke attended the Viktoria-Gymnasium Potsdam, today Helmholtz-Gymnasium Potsdam , until 1923 . He finished school prematurely in order to complete a commercial apprenticeship in Görlitz . When he returned to Potsdam after this training, he learned the organ building trade in his father's company, Alexander Schuke Orgelbauanstalt Potsdam . He worked there as an organ builder until 1933 . That year his father Alexander Schuke died . In the following years, Hans-Joachim and his brother Karl Schuke continued the company together. In 1940 Hans-Joachim Schuke was drafted into the German armed forces. From 1940 to 1945 he was stationed as accounting officer in France and Italy . In 1945 he was transferred to the front in Berlin . In the Halbe pocket he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and was taken to a prison camp in Ryazan , about 200 km southeast of Moscow. He was there for three years until May 8, 1948.

When he returned to Potsdam, he continued working in the organ building company. Due to the political situation in the post-war years, it seemed advisable for Hans-Joachim and Karl Schuke to set up another company location in the western part of Berlin if the continuation in Potsdam would no longer be possible. Although the situation stabilized and continuation in Potsdam was assured, from 1953 Karl Schuke continued the Berlin location alone, while Hans-Joachim Schuke continued the headquarters in Potsdam. He was able to manage this as a purely private company from 1953 to 1972. In 1972 the company was forcibly nationalized and from then on was called VEB Potsdamer Schuke Orgelbau . Hans Joachim Schuke remained operations director until 1976, but was an employee of the district economic council in Potsdam. In 1976 he suffered a stroke and was unable to continue working for the company. From 1976 to 1990, the management of VEB Potsdamer Schuke Orgelbau was in the hands of Max Thiel, whom he had known since he was a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union. Hans-Joachim Schuke died on July 20, 1979 and was buried in the main cemetery in Potsdam.

Matthias Schuke , the second son of Hans-Joachim Schuke, learned the trade of organ building from 1974 to 1977 and completed his master craftsman training from 1985 to 1988. In the course of the political and economic turnaround, Matthias Schuke succeeded in re-privatizing the company and is still the owner and managing director of Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau GmbH.

swell

1. ↑ Million order for Schuke . In: Berliner Morgenpost from January 4, 2005

literature

• Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau GmbH: 100 years of Alexander Schuke organ building in Potsdam . thomasius verlag - Thomas Helms, Schwerin 1994

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Joachim Schuke in the catalog of the German National Library