Joachim Hotz

Joachim Hotz (born February 25, 1934 in Liegnitz; † October 21, 1983 in Bamberg ) was a German art historian. In addition to his art history activities, he was also active as a railway historian.

Life

After studying and obtaining a doctorate in art history about the Franconian architect Johann Jakob Michael Küchel , Hotz was a lecturer at the Institute for Art History at the Technical University of Karlsruhe from 1964 . At the same time, he was involved in his spare time as a railway historian and had been campaigning for the German Federal Railroad since the beginning of the 1960s for the preservation of selected steam locomotives , which were largely decommissioned during this time due to the structural change with the conversion to diesel and electric locomotives.

In April 1967 Hotz was one of the founding members of the German Society for Railway History (DGEG), whose first president he became. As early as 1972, the DGEG was able to open its first railway museum under his leadership, today's DGEG-Eisenbahnmuseum Neustadt / Weinstrasse . The Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum followed in 1977 . In addition, he endeavored to carry out accompanying research on the history of the railway and took over the editing of the yearbook for railway history published by the DGEG from 1968 . He was particularly interested in the new DB steam locomotives from the 1950s.

After his habilitation in 1979 on Balthasar Neumann's sketchbook, Hotz became a private lecturer in Karlsruhe and tried to take on an art history chair at a German university, albeit unsuccessfully. In 1980 he moved to Bamberg and became director of the Bamberg Historical Museum there . With the assumption of this function he resigned his office as president of the DGEG. The focus of his academic work was on Franconian baroque and rococo architecture . In 1982 he received a teaching position at the University of Bamberg .

Joachim Hotz died after a short illness on cancer .

Publications (selection)

• Johann Jacob Michael Küchel: His life, his time in Mainz and his work for the country palaces of the Franconian nobility. Thesis, University of Würzburg, Philosophical Faculty, dissertation, March 4, 1964
• Brief history of the University of Karlsruhe Fridericiana (Technical University) Ed .: Rector and Senate of the University of Karlsruhe (Technical University), Verlag Müller, Karlsruhe 1975
• Historical gardens and grounds as a field of responsibility for monument conservation Research and reports on building and art monument conservation in Baden-Württemberg, Volume 6, (Ed .: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg), Verlag Wasmuth, Tübingen 1978, ISBN 3-8030-4005-1
• "Balthasar Neumann's sketchbook" Studies on the working methods of the Würzburg master and on decorative art in the 18th century, Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-88226-108-0
• Bamberg Historical Museum. Alte Hofhaltung , Kleine Kunstführer Vol. 1262, 1st edition, Schnell and Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1981
• Cistercian monasteries in Upper Franconia: Ebrach - Langheim - Sonnefeld - Himmelkron - Schlüsselau. , Große Kunstführer Vol. 98, Schnell and Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-7954-0842-3
• Pilgrimage churches in Europe , Keyser's small cultural history, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-87405-158-7
• Balthasar Neumann as a draftsman and graphic artist . Bavaria Antiqua. Munich 1983.

literature

• Alfred Gottwaldt : In the beginning: a train station. Memory of Joachim Hotz, founder of the German Society for Railway History. In: Eisenbahngeschichte 6 (2008) No. 30, pp. 54–57.
• Alfred Gottwaldt: Witte's new locomotives. The last steam locomotives of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and their creators 1949–1977. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88255-772-5 , pp. 172-176.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Hotz in the catalog of the German National Library