Hermann Kloss

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Hermann Kloss (born April 6, 1931 in Jägerndorf , Czechoslovakia ; † October 13, 2001 in Riedenburg ) was a German organ builder.

Life

Hermann Kloss was born on April 6, 1931 in Jägerndorf (today Krnov ) in the Sudetenland , as the son of Josef Kloss, a technical director of the Rieger-Kloss organ building company . He went through an organ builder training, which he completed in 1948 with the journeyman's examination. In 1965 he passed the master craftsman examination in Munich. Until his resettlement in 1967 he worked as an employee of the Czech Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Prague. In 1968 he founded an organ building company in Kelheim . Until his death, he built numerous organs with sliding chests and restored instruments, mainly in the Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria . He is buried in the forest cemetery in Kelheim.

List of works (selection)

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1969 Kelheim St. Mark II / P 7th The organ was removed during the last renovation of the church before the turn of the millennium for technical and optical reasons and is now in private hands.
1970 Kelheim St. Luke Organ St. Lukas Kelheim.jpg II / P 8th
1971 Elisabethszell St. Elisabeth II / P 13
1972 Kelheim winemaker St. James the Elder (New Church) Organ Kelheimwinzer.JPG II / P 18th
1975 Affecking Holy cross Organ Kelheim, Affecking.JPG II / P 23
1975 Kelheim Kelheim District Hospital (now Goldberg Clinic) Organ Goldbergklinik Kelheim.jpg II / P 7th
1976 Geibenstetten I / P 8th
1976 Grossgundertshausen Holy Cross and Our Lady of Sorrows Organ Großgundertshausen.jpg II / P 15th
1978 Sinzing Assumption Day Sinzing organ.jpg II / P 24
1978 Immenreuth Heart of jesus Organ brochure Immenreuth Herz Jesu .jpg II / P 14th → organ
1980 Bad Assumption Day Organ Teugn.JPG II / P 18th
1981 Bad Abbach St. Nicholas
Organ St. Nikolaus, Bad Abbach.jpg
 I / P 12 behind the prospectus by Johann Anton Breil using the previous organ
1981 Greilsberg St. Nicholas Bayerbach Greilsberg Church of St. Nicholas Orgel.jpg I / P 4th
1981 Oberpiebing St. Nicholas II / P 18th
1982 Kelheim Assumption Day Organ of the Assumption of Mary, Kelheim.JPG II / P 18th
regensburg University Hospital
Organ University Hospital Regensburg.jpg
 I / P 6th

literature

  • Georg Brenninger: Organs in Old Bavaria . GeraNova Bruckmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7654-1859-5
  • Eberhard Kraus: Historic organs in the Upper Palatinate. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kloss, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Jägerndorf , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2001
Place of death Riedenburg