Heinrich Oidtmann

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Heinrich Oidtmann

Heinrich Josef Oidtmann (['oːtman]; * July 23, 1833 in Linnich ; † September 3, 1890 ibid) was a doctor and founder of the Oidtmann glass painting company , which still exists today as a family business .

Life

As a student of medicine , Heinrich Oidtmann set up a small chemical laboratory and discovered his preference for colored glasses. As a country doctor in Linnich, he founded the workshops in 1857 and hired glass painters from Bohemia and Saxony . Church windows were made from 1860 onwards. The breakthrough for the young company was the order to equip Hohenzollern Castle from King Wilhelm I with leaded glass windows .

After the Oidtmann glass painting had established itself in Germany, Heinrich Oidtmann founded branch workshops in Brussels (1885) and Berlin (1886). In 1890 the company had more than 100 employees, mainly glass cutters, glass painters and glass lead makers, and exported all over the world.

Signature of a window in St. Peter's Church in Westum

The company received numerous awards at world fairs and other exhibitions, such as in Dublin (1865), Porto (1865), Paris (1867) , Vienna (1873) , Sydney (1879) , London (1884), Antwerp (1885) , Aachen ( 1886) and Cologne (1888).

In addition to his work as an entrepreneur, Heinrich Oidtmann also worked as a country doctor in Linnich and the surrounding area. In 1886, in a petition to the Chancellor and in two issues of his magazine "Der Impfgegner", he expressed unprovable allegations against Robert Koch and the director of the Imperial Health Department , on the basis of which he was charged with insulting 200 in the criminal chamber of the regional court in Aachen on January 4, 1887 Mark was fined and sentenced to pay the costs. From 1892 he was the official vaccinator , published studies on the epidemiology of smallpox and on the vaccination issue. Oidtmann appeared as an opponent of vaccinations and claimed that smallpox was transmitted through sheep's wool and rags made from it. This means that it is not vaccinations that are responsible for the decline in smallpox cases, but rather the decline in rags.

Despite his great professional demands as a military doctor, he took part in the Franco-German War of 1870/71.

Heinrich Oidtmann died, only 57 years old, on September 3, 1890 in his hometown of Linnich, where he was also mayor. His successor in the company was his son Heinrich Oidtmann II (1861–1912).

Glass printing process

Heinrich Oidtmann invented the process of printing colors on glass. At an international exhibition he presented such a printed window. This process was also known as "mosaic window fabrication". Heinrich Oidtmann did not continue to use this process, which would have meant the end of traditional glass painting, and all documents about it have been destroyed.

Awards

Works

  • The family tree of the Wettins in ancestral pictures . In: The German Herald
  • Stained glass in its application to secular building . In: Deutsche Kunstzeitung ( Dioskuren ) 1873
  • Old and new stained glass in construction . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung 16 (1882) and 17 (1883)
  • The stained glass as church art . In: Archives for Church Architecture and Church Decoration 6 (1882)
  • The Gothic style and stained glass . In: Archives for Church Architecture and Church Decoration 6 (1882)
  • Ancestral portraits, both picture trees and individual portraits, after original paintings burned in glass for stairs, salons and bay windows . 1882
  • another 36 books and essays on medical topics
  • The Hubertus Battle near Linnich in poetry, legend and history: The high order of St. Hubertus . Fischer, Jena 1904 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Christian Beutler : World exhibitions in the 19th century . New Collection, State Museum for Applied Arts Munich, Munich 1973, p. 62.
  • Erich Stephany , Adam C. Oellers , Ulf-Dietrich Korn u. a .: light. Glass color. Glass and stone work from the Rhenish workshops of Dr. Heinrich Oidtmann. M. Brimberg Verlag, Aachen 1982, ISBN 3-923773-00-5 , pp. 207-217.
  • Bernhard Möllers: Robert Koch. Personality and life's work 1843-1910. Schmorl & von Seefeld Nachf., Hanover 1950, pp. 180-181.

Web links

Commons : Glasmalerei Oidtmann (Linnich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oidtmann stained glass
  2. ↑ Florian Mildenberger : The construction of a "hygienic state". The modernization of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen by Georg II. (1826–1914) and Georg Leubuscher (1858–1916). In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 10, 2014, pp. 111–144, here: p. 122.
  3. ↑ Axel Helmstädter: On the history of active immunization. Prevention is better than cure . In: Pharmacy in our time . tape 37 , no. 1 , 2008, p. 12-18 , doi : 10.1002 / pauz.200700247 .
personal data
SURNAME Oidtmann, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oidtmann, Heinrich Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Linnich
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1890
Place of death Linnich