Ludwig Deiters
Ludwig Deiters (born December 23, 1921 in Berlin ; † April 26, 2018 there ) was a German architect and preservationist . From 1961 to 1986 he was general curator of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments in the GDR . He was thus responsible for monument protection in the GDR .
Life
Ludwig Deiters was the son of the teacher and education politician Heinrich Deiters .
Ludwig was called up during the Second World War and was taken prisoner.
Deiters joined the SED in 1946 and studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin from that year until 1950 . From 1950 to 1952 he worked at the Institute for Construction of the Academy of Sciences in the field of school construction research. He then worked for the general project manager of Stalinstadt (today: Eisenhüttenstadt ) and the chief architect of Berlin. From 1954 to 1957 he worked on the designs for the Buchenwald , Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorials .
From 1957 to 1961 he was a curator at the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments in the Potsdam district, then until 1986 general curator of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments. In 1967 he became an honorary professor at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction and the Berlin University of Fine Arts. In 1977 he became deputy chairman of the Council for the Preservation of Monuments at the Ministry of Culture and President of the National Committee of the International Council for the Preservation of Monuments ICOMOS . In 1987 he retired and was then involved in practical monument conservation projects. His successor as general curator was Peter Goralczyk .
Honors
In 1959, Deiters was awarded the National Prize in a collective for the design of the Buchenwald Monument and in 1975 with the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1986 in gold. In 1988 Ludwig Deiters was awarded the Karl-Friedrich-Schinkel-Ring of the (Federal) German National Committee for Monument Protection. However, the GDR authorities refused to travel to West Berlin to attend the award ceremony.
Fonts
- Preface in: Götz Eckardt (Ed.); Horst Drescher (arrangement): Fate of German monuments in World War II. A documentation of the damage and total losses in the area of the German Democratic Republic. Vol. 1., Berlin - capital of the GDR, districts Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, Potsdam, Frankfurt / Oder, Cottbus, Magdeburg. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin, 1978.
literature
- Short biography for: Deiters, Ludwig . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Jörg Haspel, Detlef Karg : Ludwig Deiters on his 90th birthday . In: Die Denkmalpflege , Volume 70, Issue 1, pp. 83–85, Personalia .
- Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 67 (there, accession to the NSDAP is claimed for 1937).
- Loyal, critical, diplomatic . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 22, 2001; for the 80th birthday
Web links
- Jörg Haspel, Detlef Karg : Ludwig Deiters on his 90th birthday . (PDF; 12 kB) 2011
- Literature by and about Ludwig Deiters in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Deiter's obituary notice. In: Tagesspiegel of May 13, 2018.
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 30, 1986, p. 5.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Deiters, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and preservationist, general curator of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 2018 |
| Place of death | Berlin |