Hermann Siedentop

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Hermann Siedentop (born November 21, 1864 in Braunschweig ; † September 27, 1943 there ; full name Hermann Friedrich Karl Siedentop ) was a German sculptor and teacher at the Braunschweig School of Applied Arts .

Life

Hermann Siedentop was the son of the metal lathe operator and later station worker Friedrich August Christian Siedentop and Johanna Maria Henriette Caroline Siedentop nee. Kester. After attending a local school, Siedentop completed his training with the sculptor Carl Friedrich Echtermeier, who worked in Braunschweig, and with the architect Constantin Uhde, who had a business relationship with him . Echtermeier and Uhde also taught at the Collegium Carolinum . After that, Siedentop went to the Rhineland, where he worked in Cologne and Düsseldorf . When he returned to Braunschweig, he became a teacher at the arts and crafts school, the last of which he was head of the sculpture class as a senior commercial teacher .

family

The Protestant Hermann Siedentop married the Catholic Elisabeth Elise Petronella Hubertine Erdle on August 7, 1888 in Cologne (* September 7, 1865 in Cologne; † September 27, 1943 in Braunschweig). She was the daughter of the plasterer Rainer Erdle and Therese Erdle geb. Hamm. Hermann and Elise Siedentop were victims of the fourth major air raid on Braunschweig on September 27, 1943, when their house at Zimmerstrasse 16 was hit at 11 p.m. and burned out.

Works in Braunschweig (selection)

Relief portrait of Albert Methfessel
  • 1898: Relief portrait by Albert Methfessel , Am Magnitor 7
  • 1891: Portrait bust of the writer Wilhelm Raabe
  • 1902: Relief decorations on the bridge on Bammelsburger Strasse
  • 1906: figurative decorations at the (former) main entrance of the municipal museum
  • 1907: four soldiers statues for the bridge at Fallersleber Tor ( melted down during the Second World War )
  • 1914: Memorial to the composer Heinrich Werner in the Brothers Cemetery
  • 1930: Bronze plaque in memory of the Braunschweig printer Julius Krampe

In addition to other portrait busts (including those of Adolf Hitler ), equestrian statues and war memorials, Siedentop also created the children's group in Braunschweig with the city arms at the secondary school on today's John F. Kennedy Square.

See also

literature

  • Norman-Mathias Pingel: Siedentop, Hermann. In: Luitgard Camerer, Manfred RW Garzmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. Supplementary volume. Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 122.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Braunschweig City Archives, inventory E 34, death certificate 3260/1943
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Norman-Mathias Pingel: Siedentop, Hermann. In: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. Supplementary volume.
  3. ↑ a b c Rhineland civil status archive , civil status register, Cologne, marriages 1888, certificate no. 685
  4. ↑ Braunschweig City Archives, inventory E 34, death certificate 3293/1943
  5. ↑ City chronicle  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Braunschweig.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / m.braunschweig.de  
  6. ↑ Listed on August 11, 1907 on braunschweig.de
  7. ^ Inauguration on May 3, 1914 on braunschweig.de
  8. ↑ Badge Julius Krampe, No. 277 on klittich-pfankuch.de
personal data
SURNAME Siedentop, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siedentop, Hermann Friedrich Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and teacher at an arts and crafts school
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1943
Place of death Braunschweig