Karl Berthold
Karl Borromäus Berthold (born December 21, 1889 in Rosenheim , † September 26, 1975 in Oberaudorf ) was a German goldsmith .
Live and act
After an apprenticeship with an engraver in Dresden and from 1907 attending the state drawing academy in Hanau , from 1913/1914 he worked as a self-employed goldsmith with his own workshop - together with his future wife Maria Schmidt-Kugel - in Darmstadt . In the 1920s he became a National Socialist and then a teacher at the Hanau Academy. As a member of the National Socialist Combat League for German Culture, he designed and manufactured a “Führerring” in gold and one year later took over the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main as acting director.
On April 15, 1933, he dismissed the “un-German and degenerate” professors Willi Baumeister , Max Beckmann , Richard Scheibe , Jacob Nussbaum , Josef Hartwig and other “cultural-Bolshevik Jew servants” and thus made a name for himself - until 1945 - as the new director and professor the - now former - Cologne Werkschulen , which he brought into line and had converted into a "master school of the Hanseatic city of Cologne".
Karl Berthold is the father of the sculptor Joachim Berthold and the stepfather of the Nazi mayor of Cologne , Karl Georg Schmidt .
literature
- Karl Berthold . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 10, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22750-7 , p. 71.
- 70th birthday of Prof. KB Berthold. In: Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung. Volume 57, p. 760
- Matthias Theodor Kloft, Dominik Müller (eds.): Karl Borromäus Berthold. Goldsmith for God - and the devil. An exhibition of the Diocesan Museum Limburg April 5 - June 28, 2017. Verlag des Bischöflichen Ordinariats, Limburg / Lahn 2017, ISBN 978-3-944142-25-8 .
Web links
- Short biography of Karl Berthold in: deutschefotothek.de
- The “synchronization” of the Städelschule, in: Website of the City of Frankfurt am Main, Institute for City History
Individual evidence
- ↑ An American soldier took the ring in 1945 and brought it to the USA. It was auctioned for US $ 66,000 in 2013 ( Ring owned by Hitler sells for nearly $ 66,000 in Cecil Co. , Baltimore Sun report with illustration of the ring, September 11, 2013, accessed September 11, 2013)
- ↑ [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berthold, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berthold, Karl Borromäus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German goldsmith and functionary in the Third Reich |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1975 |
| Place of death | Oberaudorf |