Ludwig Diemer

Ludwig Diemer (born December 5, 1828 in Heidelberg , † April 29, 1894 in Karlsruhe ) was a German architect and construction clerk , who gained importance in particular through his work in the state church building administration in Baden.

Evangelical Christ Church in Lahr

Diemer studied at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic , where he joined the Teutonia fraternity . From 1858 to 1860 he toured Italy and Greece . During his travels he made watercolor paintings of important buildings. After his return he was assistant to Heinrich Hübsch for a long time , with whom he had previously studied.

In 1864 Diemer was appointed director of the grand ducal district building inspection in Donaueschingen . In the following year he was appointed head of the Protestant church building inspection in Karlsruhe. Diemer led the renovation of the churches in Lahr ( Lahr collegiate church ), Pforzheim (Martinskirche) and Kenzingen . Under his leadership, new churches were built in Lahr (Christ Church), Eppingen , Sulzfeld , Rheinbischofsheim , Freiburg im Breisgau (Christ Church) , Ettlingen , Gaggenau and Karlsruhe (Johanniskirche).

literature

• Ludwig Diemer. In: Friedrich von Weech , A. Krieger (Ed.): Badische Biographien , Volume 5: 1891–1901. Heidelberg 1906, p. 112 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Joseph August Beringer : Diemer, Ludwig . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 234–235 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• G. Kirschner: Directory of members of the Karlsruhe Burschenschaft Teutonia. 1966.
• Diemer, Ludwig . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 27, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22767-1 , p. 243 ..
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 136-137.