Julius Wilhelm (monument conservator)

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Julius Wilhelm (born July 11, 1873 in Stetten , † July 15, 1961 in Lörrach ) was a German merchant, publisher and preservationist in the district of Lörrach .

Career

Julius Wilhelm came as the son of Jodok Wilhelm and Walburga Wilhelm, geb. Carpenter, to the world. The father was a locksmith. He is the grandson of the master builder and plasterer Jodokus Wilhelm , who helped build the Fridolinskirche , among other things . After finishing school and completing a commercial apprenticeship, he went to England. On his return he joined the Herder publishing house in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1926 Wilhelm returned to Lörrach and was publishing director at Frobenius in Basel . Since then he has also worked as a monument conservator.

Act

Julius Wilhelm founded a welfare organization for Italian workers in Germany at an early age. During his time as a publisher, he worked on Joseph Wilpert's work on Early Christian Mosaics and Paintings , for which he received the Royal Prussian Order of the Crown in 1917.

To support the Museum am Burghof (since 2012 three-country museum ), Wilhelm and Ernst Wilhelm Schultz set up the “Lörracher Museumsverein” in 1928. After the Second World War , Wilhelm campaigned for the preservation of the remainder of the 24 tombstones of the Jewish cemetery in Lörrach. This was u. a. Heavily devastated on November 9, 1938 as a result of the " Reichspogromnacht ".

The Peterskirche in Blansingen was one of the most important art monuments in the sphere of influence of Julius Wilhelm. Together with Joseph Sauer , he campaigned for the preservation of the art-historically valuable picture cycles. The process from discovery to release took almost 30 years and represented a decade-long tug of war. In the village of Märkt - today part of Weil am Rhein - in 1934, to the displeasure of the parish, paintings were uncovered and preserved in the church. Thanks to Wilhelm's care, two shifts could be brought to light. The older one from the 14./15. Century shows scenes of the crucifixion and is particularly valuable because of its great age for the Markgräflerland . The younger layer shows the legend of St. Nicholas and dates from the 15th and 16th centuries. Century. The sacrament shrine with its grave in the Ottilienkirche in Tüllingen is considered a particularly successful discovery and conservation .

Thanks to Wilhelm's quick action and combination, the so-called Laeuger relief was acquired by the Freiburg Münsterbauhütte for the Loerrach Museum Association. In 1950 the relief - initially on loan - was attached to the front wall of the choir of the Bonifaziuskirche in Lörrach . On the 82nd birthday of Wilhelm on July 1, 1955, the work of art was transferred to the parish. The relief finally had to be relocated in 1971 because the window was enlarged.

Honors

Works

  • The Lörrach Jewish cemetery from 1670 , 1932.
  • From Lörrach and the neighborhood. Art and cultural history pictures , Verlag Oberländer Bote Lörrach, 1932.

literature

  • Berthold Hänel: Wilhelm, Julius , In: Badische Biographien . New series, Vol. 1. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, p. 273 ( E-Text )
  • Annemarie Heimann-Schwarzweber: Julius Wilhelm. To commemorate his 100th birthday. in: Walter Jung, Gerhard Moehring (ed.): Our Lörrach 1973. A border town in the mirror of the times . Kropf & Herz, Lörrach-Tumringen 1973, pp. 145-154

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heimann-Schwarzweber: Julius Wilhelm , page 146
  2. ↑ Axel Huettner: The Jewish community of churches (Efringen-Kirchen, Lörrach district) 1736-1940. 200 years of Jewish history in Markgräflerland , Lörrach-Haagen 1993, page 284, ISBN 3-929780-00-3 .
  3. ↑ Lörrach old Jewish cemetery
  4. ^ Heimann-Schwarzweber: Julius Wilhelm , page 148/9
  5. ^ Heimann-Schwarzweber: Julius Wilhelm , page 149
  6. ^ Heimann-Schwarzweber: Julius Wilhelm , page 150
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, publisher and preservationist for the district of Loerrach
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Stetten
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1961
Place of death Loerrach