Maximilian Oestreich

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(Johann Georg) Maximilian Oestreich (born May 25, 1834 in Oberbimbach , † after 1872 probably in Ashland, Pennsylvania , USA) was an American organ builder of German origin. He emigrated to the United States in 1855 with his stepfather and a brother .

family

Maximilian (Max) was the second of four sons of the organ builder Adam Joseph Oestreich (1799–1843) from his marriage to Margarete geb. Gardener (1805-1857). His older brother Emil Michael (* 1832 in Oberbimbach, † 1857 ibid) and the third brother, Maurus (born January 15, 1836 in Oberbimbach, † August 13, 1912 in St. Clair (Pennsylvania) , USA), were also organ builders and were thus members of the last of the five generations of organ builders in the Oestreich family .

Like his two brothers, Max learned in his father's workshop in Oberbimbach. After the death of his father, his younger brother Augustin Oestreich (1807 – after 1855) married his widow Margarete in 1844 and thus looked after their children Monika (* 1829), Emil Michael, Maximilian, Maurus, Mathilde (* 1838) and Damian (* 1843). In 1855 Augustin, Maximilian and Maurus emigrated to the USA. They settled there in Ashland, Pennsylvania, founded in 1850 and incorporated in 1857, and ran an organ and wood construction workshop in neighboring Pottsville .

Act

While Maurus, who was now also called Morris or Maurice, served as a volunteer in the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War and then ran his own organ and wood construction workshop in St. Clair, neighboring Pottsville , Max stayed in Ashland and married the Bavarian Margaret Oberlies and took over the workshop founded by his stepfather in Pottsville: "Oestreich & Brother Organ & Melodion Manufactory, Pottsville, Pa., Max Oestreich, proprietor." Organ, carpentry and wood construction were produced.

So far, only the one in the Catholic St. John Baptist Church in Pottsville, which was completed in 1872, is known with certainty. Probably it was also Max, but maybe also his stepfather Augustin, who built the organ in the First Presbyterian Church in Pottsville, built in 1838–1842 and replaced in the late 1870s by a new building inaugurated in 1880.

literature

  • Gottfried Rehm : The organ builder family Oestreich. In: Acta Organologica . Vol. 7, 1973, pp. 37-66.
  • Gottfried Rehm: Contributions to the history of the organ building family Oestreich. In: Acta Organologica . Vol. 21, 1990, pp. 55-99.
  • Gottfried Rehm: Musikantenleben. Contributions to the music history of Fulda and the Rhön in the 18th and 19th centuries. Parzeller, Fulda 1997, ISBN 3-7900-0282-8 (= publication of the Fulda History Association ).
  • David H. Fox: A Guide to North America Organ Builders: Compiled from Historical Sources and the Work of Various Researchers. Organ Historical Society, Richmond, Va., 1991, ISBN 0-9134-9908-0

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.civilwarindex.com/armypa/Rosters/96th_pa_infantry_roster.pdf
  2. ↑ http://php.scripts.psu.edu/~sam21/regiment5.php?reg=96&state=PA
  3. ^ Census: 1890, Saint Clair, Schuylkill County, PA; Special Schedule, Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Widows, etc.
  4. ↑ The youngest brother Damian / Daniel, who was born in 1843 and only came to the USA in 1859, served in the 27th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment ( http://php.scripts.psu.edu/~sam21/regiment5.php?reg=96&state=PA ).
  5. ↑ Anthony FC Wallace: A Workingman's Town - Chapter 3 of: St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry. Cornell University Press, Ithaca & London, 1987 (digital-reprint at Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Exploring Diversity in Pennsylvania History, Immigrants in Coal Country), pp. 54–55
  6. ↑ When Augustin Oestreich died is not known.
  7. ^ History of Schuylkill County, PA, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. WW Munsell & Co., New York, 1881, p. 285
  8. ^ The First Presbyterian Church of Pottsville, Penna. In: Historical Society of Schuylkill County, Volume IV, Pottsville, Pa., 1912, pp. 394–406 (here: 405)
personal data
SURNAME Oestreich, Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oestreich, Johann Georg Maximilian; Austria, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American organ builder, cabinet maker, carpenter
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberbimbach
DATE OF DEATH after 1872
Place of death Ashland, Pennsylvania, USA