Heinrich Oidtmann III

Heinrich Oidtmann III (* July 6, 1888 ; † January 25, 1929 ) was an engineer , author and entrepreneur . He headed the Oidtmann glass painting company in Linnich , founded by his grandfather , which still exists today as a family business .

Life

Leaded glass window by the Oidtmann company in the Church of St. Philip and St. James in Kempenich

Title page of the book: Die Rheinischen Glasmalereien ... , Vol. 2

Heinrich Oidtmann attended grammar school in Jülich and after graduating from high school studied architecture and art history at the technical universities of Aachen and Munich and at the University of Bonn . After graduating as Dipl.-Ing. After the death of his father in 1912, at the age of twenty-four, he took over the management of the family business.

As a student, Oidtmann was an active member of the Catholic student associations of the KV : Carolingia - Aachen, Erwinia - Munich and Arminia Bonn .

Shortly before his death in 1912, his father, Heinrich Oidtmann , had published the first volume of the fundamental work “The Rhenish Glass Painting from the 12th to the 16th Century”. This scientific work was completed by Oidtmann III with the second volume. The two volumes are still considered a standard work on Rhenish stained glass today .

In 1921 Oidtmann married Ludovika van den Hoff (1899–1945) from the Netherlands. The marriage produced three sons.

Heinrich Oidtmann managed to successfully continue the family business during the First World War and the economic crises of the 1920s. After his untimely death in 1929, his wife took over management of the company. The sons Friedrich Oidtmann (born March 5, 1924) and Ludovikus Oidtmann (born July 23, 1928) joined their parents' business after their mother's death.

Works

• Old stained glass from the parish church of Monreal near Mayen . In: Journal for Christian Art 25 (1912), pp. 375–379
• The furnishing of a St. Elisabeth church with stained glass . In: Journal for Christian Art 30 (1917), pp. 61–69
• Old glass paintings of a late Gothic portal skylight in the former monastery church at Niederwerth near Koblenz on the Rhine . In: Journal for Christian Art 30 (1917), pp. 144-146
• Old glass paintings in the Protestant church in Kirchherten in the Bergheim district . In: Zeitschrift für christliche Kunst 31 (1918), pp. 71–74
• A glass painting in the former Cistercian church in Bottenbroich . In: Christliche Kunst 20 (1923/24), pp. 8–21
• The Rhenish stained glass from the 12th to the 16th century . Vol. 2, Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1929

literature

• 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 , 207-217.
• Siegfried Koß in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 1st part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 2). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1991, ISBN 3-923621-55-8 , pp. 73f.

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