Karl Schmidt (folklorist)

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Karl Louis Florenz Schmidt (born November 16, 1853 in Erfurt ; † October 7, 1922 in Dresden ) was a German folklorist, architect and senior building officer. In 1908 Schmidt foundedthe Saxon Homeland Security Association with folklorist Oskar Seyffert , which Schmidt also ran until his death.

Life

Saxon Homeland Security Memorial Center in the Inner Neustädter Friedhof in Dresden, on the right the grave of Karl Schmidt

Schmidt completed his specialist studies in structural engineering at the Dresden Polytechnic in 1878 . In 1883 he became technical assistant in the responsible ministry, after two years, in 1885, agricultural assistant, 1891 agricultural inspector and in 1898 agricultural master . In the latter capacity, from July 1, 1899, he was in charge of the Meißen agricultural department . After about a year and a half he took over the administration of the Landbauamt I in Dresden, in which position he was appointed building officer in 1900.

On January 1, 1902, he was appointed to the Saxon Ministry of Finance as a deputy of the technical advisory councils of the ministry as a finance and building councilor in matters of building construction . After almost two years there, on December 21, 1903, he was promoted to senior building officer. On April 1, 1912, he was appointed a secret building officer and, in 1918, appointed to the Saxon Ministry of Finance as a technical lecturer. The hope that after Edmund Waldow's resignation in 1913 he would be able to represent the entire building construction industry of the Saxon state did not materialize. On June 30, 1919, he retired.

Karl Schmidt died on October 7, 1922. The funeral, “at which the Saxon intellectual aristocracy paid him their last honors”, took place three days later at the Inner Neustädter Friedhof in Dresden.

Act

Out of the diverse official activities of Karl Schmidt, the restoration work on the Dresden Zwinger and the construction of the assembly of the new Dresden School of Applied Arts stand out. In addition, he was responsible for numerous new buildings and conversions, in particular in the divisions of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Culture and Public Education, as well as the former General Directorate of the Royal Collections .

In addition, Schmidt was committed to protecting the Saxon homeland . His official position was helpful to him, because on the one hand it exuded authority and on the other hand it gave him the opportunity to calculate new buildings in terms of homeland security in such a way that the resulting savings in the leading positions of the ministries could convince. In February 1897 he founded the Association for Saxon Folklore with Oskar Seyffert and Eugen Mogk . Together with Seyffert, he founded the Saxon Homeland Security Association in 1908 , of which he remained president until his death in 1922. After the death of the secret building officer Ottomar Reichelt , Schmidt was appointed a member of the commission for the preservation of art monuments in Saxony in 1912 .

The voluntary work in the field of monument preservation and homeland protection , which also included the photos of the German farm and town house in Saxony, was his real life's work. Through his work in these areas, he has earned recognition beyond the Saxon borders, which resulted in the award of the Dr.-Ing. in honor of the Technical University of Hanover .

Karl-Schmidt-Weg is named after him in the Loschwitz district of Dresden . This panorama path branches off to the south from the Grundstraße leading through the Loschwitzgrund and leads uphill through a forest to the part of Oberloschwitz called “Schöne Aussicht” . Until 1933, the path, privately created in 1873, was named Alpenweg , after the excursion restaurant Schweizerei , to which it led. After the community of Loschwitz feared increasing traffic loads and impairment of the landscape, Schmidt advocated the closure of the Leonhardi ink factory located on Grundstrasse 60/62, which had been expanded several times since the site was taken over in 1854. Their area was to be redesigned into a park, which, however, only happened posthumously and was not permanent due to the Second World War.

literature

  • Karl Schmidt †. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 56, No. 88, Berlin, November 4, 1922, pp. 499–500 ( PDF; 0.4 MB ).
  • Karl Schmidt (1853-1922). Memories of the founder of the Saxon Homeland Security Association. In: Mitteilungen des Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz 7 (1997) 3, p. 72 f.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ List of students from the Technical Educational Institute (TBA) / Polytechnic School (PS) / Dresden Polytechnic (PT) for the period (1828-) 1836–1887 -S-. Technical University of Dresden, accessed on November 11, 2015 .
  2. ^ Albert Hofmann : Karl Schmidt †. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 56, No. 88, Berlin, November 4, 1922, pp. 499–500 ( PDF; 0.4 MB ).
  3. ^ Streets and squares in Loschwitz: Karl Schmidt Weg. In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Retrieved November 11, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Leonhard ink factory. In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Retrieved November 11, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Karl Louis Florenz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist, architect and senior building officer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1922
Place of death Dresden