Otto Scheidgen

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Otto Johann Jakob Scheidgen (born May 10, 1893 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , † March 25, 1977 in Bonn ) was a German monument conservator and architect .

Life

Otto Scheidgen was the son of the couple August Scheidgen and Rosalie called Röschen, born in Rheinbrohl . Römerscheid (1867–1937). After attending the Realgymnasium in Bonn, from which he graduated from secondary school , he completed an apprenticeship as a private architect at the State Academy in Chemnitz from 1910 to 1914 . There he also passed the Abitur . With the beginning of the First World War , he did not wait for the upcoming draft , but registered as a one-year volunteer , which was possible for him due to his training and high school diploma. In the beginning he served as aEnsign in the field artillery in Champagne . Most recently he was deployed on the Eastern Front , from where he returned as a lieutenant and awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class . The poor economic situation did not allow Otto to enter his father's office. In 1919 he therefore joined the architects “Neumann & Kürten” in Cologne , in 1920 he worked there for the brothers “Fritz & Tony Müller” and in the fourth quarter of 1920 as a construction expert at “Rheinische Grundstückhandels GmbH” in Cologne. This was followed by three years of unemployment before he found a job at the Occupation Construction Office in Bonn.

Living apart from his first wife, a restaurateur's daughter from Bad Ems , Otto Scheidgen met Martha Löbner in Bonn around 1929/1930, the daughter of the local director of the horticultural research institute of the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture , Max Löbner. At his advocacy, Otto Scheidgen received the order for a building on the site of the research institute in 1930.

But ultimately the training obtained in Chemnitz proved to be unsustainable for financing a middle-class household. On the initiative of Martha Löbner and with her financial support, Otto studied architecture from 1933 to 1938 at the Technical University of Stuttgart, graduating with a Dipl.-Ing. In 1934 he was commissioned by the Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as part of the project of the inventory of art monuments to draw up , in particular, the Baroque monuments of Upper Swabia . Numerous building recordings were made in the districts of Riedlingen , Saulgau , Tettnang , Waldsee and Wangen . During this time, his first marriage was divorced and in 1935 the second was with Martha Löbner. When he finished his studies in 1938, Otto Scheidgen was offered the position of assistant to the head of the State Office for Monument Preservation.

At the beginning of the Second World War , Otto Scheidgen was 46 years old. In 1941 he was able to fill a so-called uk position by filling the deputy head of the monument conservation department at the building construction department of the city of Nuremberg . One of his official duties there was the weekly control of the imperial regalia that had been brought from Vienna to Nuremberg in 1938 on the instructions of Adolf Hitler. His last position was from December 1951 until he reached the seniority limit at the end of his 65th birthday - in 1959 - the Rhineland State Conservator , where he professionally accompanied the repair of war damage. After his retirement he was involved in the inventory of monuments through a work contract until 1974, for which he created over 400 measurements and construction drawings, which were included in 15 volumes of the publication series “Die Denkmäler des Rheinlandes”. His last work dealt with the graphic reconstruction of the Heisterbach monastery near Königswinter . On May 10, 1974, at the instigation of his second wife, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

family

Otto Scheidgen married Martha Löbner on August 15, 1935 in Friedrichshafen (born October 11, 1898 in Wädenswihl; † December 3, 1974 in Willich). She was the daughter of the former head gardener in the Dresden Castle Park, Max Löbner († 1947 in Bonn) and Hedwig, b. Wöllner. From 1926 to 1932 Martha Löbner ran a music school in Bad Honnef as a music teacher - she had been trained at the Ziskovenkonservatorium in Bonn, among other places . Her father had been director of the horticultural research institute of the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture in Bonn since 1917.

The marriage of Otto and Martha Scheidgen gave birth to their son Helmut (born October 16, 1938 in Stuttgart), who after studying French and history at the University of Bonn in 1976 with the work “ The French Succession (987-1500 ): The Exclusion of Women and the Salic Law ”in the history of Dr. phil. PhD . After previously working as a freelancer at the Federal Press Office , he worked from 1977 to 2003 as editor- in- chief at Saarländischer Rundfunk .

plant

buildings

  • 1927: Fortaleza , State of Ceará, Brazil, competition for a church building. (with August Scheidgen)-9999
  • 1930: Bonn-Friesdorf , horticultural research institute of the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture, office and classrooms as well as an apartment for the head gardener.-9999

Restorations

Fonts

  • Werner von Matthey, Adolph Schahl (arrangement): Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Tettnang (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Württemberg, Volume 4.1) Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), Stuttgart / Berlin 1937, 37 drawings by Scheidgen.
  • Werner von Matthey: The art monuments of the Saulgau district. (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Württemberg, Volume 4.2) DVA, Stuttgart / Berlin 1938, 33 drawings by Scheidgen.
  • Werner von Matthey, Adolph Schahl (edit.): The art monuments of the former Waldsee district. (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Württemberg, Volume 4.2) DVA, Stuttgart / Berlin 1943, drawings.
  • Adolph Schahl, Werner von Matthey, Georg Sigmund Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden, Peter Strieder (arrangement): The art monuments of the former district of Wangen. (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Württemberg, Volume 4.2) DVA, Stuttgart / Berlin 1954, drawings.
  • To restore baroque church tower roofs. In: Yearbook of the Rhenish Preservation of Monuments, Volume 21, Butzon & Becker Verlag, Kevelaer 1957, p. XXX.

literature

  • Helmut Scheidgen: A Rhenish family of architects. Rheinbrohl-Koenigswinter-Bonn. 1822-1977. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03129-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae Helmut Scheidgen: A Rhenish family of architects. Rheinbrohl-Koenigswinter-Bonn. 1822-1977.
personal data
SURNAME Scheidgen, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheidgen, Otto Johann Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and preservationist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1977
Place of death Bonn