Otto Höver

Otto Höver

Otto Adolf Höver (born December 14, 1889 in Bremerhaven ; † June 15, 1963 there ) was a German art historian, writer and city librarian in Bremerhaven. He was best known for his publications on shipping.

Life

Höver attended the humanistic grammar school in Geestemünde , which later became the Wilhelm Raabe School . After graduating from high school, he studied art history , archeology and ethnology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich from 1909 to 1920 . During the First World War he had to interrupt his studies and serve as a soldier. He suffered a severe wound in his left leg. In 1920 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . He was scientifically active in Hagen , Berlin , Kiel and Kassel . From 1929 to 1932 Höver was a freelance writer in Bremen . It was here that he wrote his most important book From the Galiot to the Five-Master, Our Sailing Ships in World Shipping . From 1932 to 1945 he headed the city library in Bremerhaven. In 1935, in a letter to Lord Mayor Walter Delius , he suggested building a shipping museum in Wesermünde . He was important as the author of works on the history of seafaring and shipyards . As a private scholar , he made numerous trips abroad.

Works

• Cult buildings of Islam. Wilhelm Goldmann, Leipzig 1922.
• Comparative architectural history. General Publishing House, 1923.
• Javanese shadow plays. Goldmann, Leipzig 1923.
• Indian art. Shepherd, Breslau 1923.
• The ironworks. The art form of wrought iron. Wasmuth, Berlin 1927.
• Erich Basarke . Chemnitz 1928.
• From the Galiot to the five-master. Bremen 1934, reprint Norderstedt 1975.
• German deep sea fishing. Oldenburg 1936.
• German maritime history. Athenaion and Rütten & Loening, Potsdam 1939 and 1942.
• 100 years of the Weser shipyard 1843–1943. History of the stock corporation "Weser", Schiffswerft u. Mechanical engineering institute in Bremen. Bremen 1943.
• Oldest sea shipping and its cultural environment. World history from the third millennium BC. Wede, 1948.
• From the cog to the clipper. Hamburg 1948.
• Vincent van Gogh - as a draftsman. Dehio, Emmendingen 1948.
• Auguste Rodin, sculptures. Dehio 1948.
• The ironworks. The art forms of wrought iron from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. Wasmuth, 1953.
• Fifty years of the shipbuilding company Unterweser AG 1903–1953. Bremerhaven 1953.
• Bremerhaven and North German Lloyd. In: Nordsee-Kalender , 5th year 1953, pp. 36–42.
• Bremen sailing ships and their owners 1840–1914. In: North Sea Calendar , 5th year 1953.
• From the history of our shipyards. In: Nordsee-Kalender , 7th year 1955, pp. 40–44.
• History of the Schichaukaje. In: NdHbl 1963, No. 164.
• Ancient Asians under sail in the Indian and Pacific Oceans through monsoons and trade winds. Limbach, 1961.
• Memories from Bremerhaven's passenger traffic. In: NdHbl 1963, No. 164.
• Georg Dietrich Seebeck. In: Bremische Biographie from 1912–1962. Bremen 1969.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 1st edition 1925. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin a. a. 1925, col. 429 (with date of birth November 14, 1889).
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 6th edition 1940/41. Volume 1: A-K. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1941, column 748 (with date of birth December 14, 1889).
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X (with date of birth December 4, 1889?).
• Hartmut Bickelmann (ed.): Bremerhaven personalities from four centuries. A biographical lexicon. 2nd expanded and corrected edition. Stadtarchiv Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven 2003, ISBN 3-923851-25-1 , p. 136 ( Publications of the Stadtarchiv Bremerhaven 16), (with date of birth December 14, 1889 and second first name Adolf ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Höver in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: Late styles of German architecture from the circular movement of German spatial design .