Hans Joachim Ziersch

Hans Joachim Ziersch (born August 21, 1913 in Rottach-Egern ; † March 12, 1995 in Munich ) was a German interior designer, entrepreneur, art collector and patron . As a pioneer for monument protection in Germany, Ziersch founded the Board of Trustees for Landscape Protection and saved u. a. the Villa Stuck and the Hildebrandhaus in Munich before the demolition.

Life

Hans Joachim Ziersch was the son of Aenne Franziska Valentin Ziersch, b. Schmidt (1878–1939), and Walter Ziersch (1874–1943). His brother Roland Ziersch (1904–1969) was a writer and journalist. Ziersch attended the elementary school in Gebelestrasse (Gebeleschule) in Bogenhausen , later the state Wilhelmsgymnasium in Thierschstrasse.

Hans Joachim Ziersch and his second wife Amélie Ziersch had four children.

job

In 1950, Hans Joachim Ziersch founded the furniture store form im raum on Maximilianstrasse in Munich . He sold facilities based on his own design, as well as designs by Menold, Stuttgart, and the architects Biber, Braunschweig, and Hering, Biberach. Occasionally, models by well-known Munich architects were added as well as licenses and imports from Scandinavia, Italy and Holland. So he introduced the String bookshelf system in Germany. In Munich he opened a branch on Theatiner Strasse and another in Frankfurt.

Preservation of monuments and patronage

The Stuck Art Nouveau Association and the rescue of Villa Stuck

The Villa Stuck on Prinzregentenstrasse, Munich

In 1965, Hans-Joachim and Amélie Ziersch bought Villa Stuck from the artist's heirs for 1.1 million marks and saved the villa from demolition. With the support of the city and state, Ziersch renovated the artist's villa, which had been badly damaged by the effects of the war, converted it inside and rented it to private galleries and a restaurant. In 1967 Hans Joachim Ziersch founded the Stuck Art Nouveau Association with the aim of setting up an Art Nouveau museum. The first chairman was the respective cultural advisor of the state capital Munich , when it was founded, Herbert Hohenemser. On May 5, 1967, Hans Joachim and Amélie Ziersch transferred the Villa Stuck, the property belonging to it and its important collection of works by Franz von Stuck to the Stuck Art Nouveau Association. On March 9, 1968, after two years of renovation, the Villa Stuck was opened as a museum. At the opening, the focus was on works by Franz von Stuck and the Art Nouveau artist Hermann Obrist . In 1991 the Ziersch couple donated the historic villa to the city of Munich. In 1992 the Villa Stuck became the third municipal museum in the state capital of Munich. The donation of 500,000 DM provided further funding and secured the future of the museum. The stucco art nouveau association dissolved.

The Board of Trustees for Landscape Protection

Even before the foundation of the Board of Trustees for Landscape Protection, Hans Joachim Ziersch had saved buildings from decay or demolition.

October 11, 1971 is the founding date for the Board of Trustees for Landscape Protection. The purpose of the association "is primarily to promote building planning and design that is appropriate to the location and the landscape. This includes influencing the design and planning of future building projects, primarily in rural areas, as well as preserving the appearance of the landscape through nature conservation measures and the preservation of buildings typical of the landscape ... through lectures and exhibitions should promote the general public's understanding and interest in the value and importance of landscape protection in the broadest sense. " (Extract from the statutes)

In addition to Hans Joachim Ziersch, the founding members were the architects Alexander Freiherr von Branca , Uwe Kiessler , Johannes Ludwig and Helmut von Werz . The circle was later expanded by the architect Hans-Busso von Busse , the political scientist Peter-Cornelius Meyer-Tasch and the regional planner Gerd Albers .

The buildings in Munich that were rescued by Hans Joachim Ziersch and the members of the Board of Trustees for Landscape Protection include in Bogenhausen u. a. the Villa Stuck, the Bogenhauser Hof and the so-called Hildebrandhaus , plus other buildings in Maxvorstadt and Schwabing . In addition, the Landscape Protection Board successfully fought for the preservation of Tegernsee Castle and the grammar school located there, for the preservation and renovation of the so-called Midgardhaus on Lake Starnberg and prevented the construction of a beauty farm in Bad Wiessee.

After the death of Hans Joachim Ziersch, the Board of Trustees for Landscape Protection faltered and was finally dissolved at an extraordinary general meeting on November 17, 2005.

Honors

On September 15, 1983, Hans Joachim Ziersch was presented with the Munich Shine Medal - The Friends of Munich in Gold by Erich Kiesl , the then Lord Mayor of Munich .

literature

Ulrich Brinkmann, Michael Buhrs (ed.): With citizenship against the dictates of the economy. The Kuratorium for Landscape Protection in Munich . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-422-07226-8
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker: Franz von Stuck: the collection of the Museum Villa Stuck. Catalog on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Villa Stuck and the 5th anniversary of the City Museum Villa Stuck; Ed. Minerva, Eurasburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-932353-09-3 , pp. 8, 18, 23 and passim

Web links

Literature by and about Hans Joachim Ziersch in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Index entry for Hans Joachim Ziersch in the German biography

Individual evidence

↑ Dr. Hans Wichmann: Company members and friendly companies of the German Werkbund. Deutscher Werkbund eV, 1971, accessed on April 19, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b Evelyn Vogel: The survivor on the altar of sin , Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 8, 2018
↑ Gisela Brackert: Who does the culture and where? (III): SPD city in the CSU shine . In: The time . November 22, 2012, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 19, 2018]).
^ "Bought immortality, so to speak" , Der Spiegel , March 11, 1968
↑ With a sense of citizenship against the dictates of the economy: the Kuratorium for Landscape Protection in Munich . German Art publ. Villa Stuck, Berlin Munich Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-422-07226-8 ( dnb.de [accessed April 19, 2018]).
↑ The memorial in court . In: The time . Hamburg November 21, 2012 ( zeit.de [accessed April 20, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Ziersch, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German interior designer, entrepreneur, collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH	August 21, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rottach-Egern
DATE OF DEATH	March 12, 1995
Place of death	Munich

[1] Dr. Hans Wichmann: Company members and friendly companies of the German Werkbund. Deutscher Werkbund eV, 1971, accessed on April 19, 2018 .

[Süddeutsche8.2018-2] Evelyn Vogel: The survivor on the altar of sin , Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 8, 2018

[3] Gisela Brackert: Who does the culture and where? (III): SPD city in the CSU shine . In: The time . November 22, 2012, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 19, 2018]).

[4] "Bought immortality, so to speak" , Der Spiegel , March 11, 1968

[5] With a sense of citizenship against the dictates of the economy: the Kuratorium for Landscape Protection in Munich . German Art publ. Villa Stuck, Berlin Munich Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-422-07226-8 ( dnb.de [accessed April 19, 2018]).

[6] The memorial in court . In: The time . Hamburg November 21, 2012 ( zeit.de [accessed April 20, 2018]).