Otto Winkelmüller (architect, 1895)

Otto Winkelmüller (born March 9, 1895 in Hanover ; † August 5, 1970 there ) was a German architect , construction clerk and heraldist .

life and work

Fallen Memorial of the 78th Reserve Division in Hanover (autumn 2012)

Building of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture in Hanover

Otto Winkelmüller studied at the Technical University of Hanover under the matriculation number 11269, where he completed his dissertation in 1925 ( stonemason's and master's marks . Their nature and meaning .) In the same year he passed the second state examination .

From his service as a government master builder ( assessor ) in the Prussian state building administration , Winkelmüller switched to the provincial building administration in Hanover in 1927 , where he was provisional head of the building construction department in the finance ministry of the province of Hanover .

In 1930 Winkelmüller created the Memorial for the Fallen for the 78th Reserve Division . The sculptural work on the front is by Hermann Scheuertstuhl , while the memorial was made by Fr. Meine .

At the time of National Socialism , Winkelmüller did the preparatory work for the publication Die Kunstdenkmale des Kreis Peine , Volume 29 of the series Kunstdenkmälerinventare Lower Saxony , published in 1938 . In total, Winkelmüller was electoral officer in the provincial building administration for twelve years until the end of the 1940s and as Werner Gollert's predecessor .

In 1938, Winkelmüller was also appointed regional councilor. Interrupted only by his participation in the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 Otto Winkelmüller was also temporarily employed under the British military government from 1946 to 1948 for Department 4 (building construction), and until April 1947 also headed the Provincial Building Administration. In July 1948, he was replaced in the Ministry of Finance by his successor Werner Gollert .

In the post-war period , the building of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture , Schiffgraben 12 in Hanover, was built according to plans by Otto Winkelmüller. The shell of the building, which was completed at the end of 1949 , was the first newly constructed government building in Lower Saxony after the war and was initially intended to accommodate various administrative departments. Its formal language still shows almost literal “ quotations ” from the “official architecture ” of the Third Reich - and has therefore hardly been dealt with in literature so far.

Otto Winkelmüller was a member of the "Herold", an association for heraldry, genealogy and related sciences in Berlin . Only died in 1970 in his hometown Hanover.

Fonts (selection)

• Stonemason and maker's mark. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , 32nd year 1929, issue 1, pp. 1–86.
• Heiner Juergens, Hans Lütgens, Joachim Freiherr von Welck (editing), Otto Winkelmüller (preliminary editing): The art monuments of the Peine district. (= Lower Saxony art monuments inventory , Volume 29.) Wenner, Osnabrück 1980, ISBN 3-87898-180-5 . (Reprint of Die Kunstdenkmale der Provinz Hannover, Administrative Region Hildesheim. Self-published by the Provincial Administration / Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hannover 1938.)
• The German construction huts. Their Orders and Freemasonry. Sasse, Bad Harzburg undated (1964).
• Les compagnonnages. A root of Freemasonry. The French journeyman's brotherhoods, their contribution to the history of Freemasonry and the Hiram legend. (= From Masonic research , Volume 1.) Bauhütten-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Hamburg 1967.
• Construction huts, guilds, guilds, lodges. In: Quatuor Coronati , issue 7, March 1970, p. 5 f.

Web links

Commons : Otto Winkelmüller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Heraldry Index. In: Ludwig Biewer , Eckart Henning (arrangement): Wappen. Handbook of Heraldry. 20th updated and newly designed edition, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50372-7 , pp. 365–372; here: p. 372. limited preview in Google book search
2. ↑ ^{a b} Comparison of the information in the catalog of the German National Library (DNB)
3. ↑ Herbert Mundhenke (edit.): The matriculation of the Höhere Gewerbeschule, the Polytechnische Schule and the Technische Hochschule zu Hannover (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , 9, Section 6.) Vol. 3: Explanations and registers. Hahnsche Buchhandlung und Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-5855-8 , p. 202. ( limited preview in Google book search
4. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 45th year 1925, p. 196. ( limited preview in Google book search)
5. ^ ^{A b} Dietrich Lösche : State building administration in Lower Saxony. From local construction officer in the agricultural district to state construction management. (= Publications of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen , vol. 45.) Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Gütersloh 2004, ISBN 3-89534-545-8 , passim . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
6. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Georgengarten and Schiffgraben . In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (Ed.): Hannover. Art and culture lexicon . (HKuKL) 4th updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 111–116; here: p. 116; P. 191 f .; here: p. 192.
7. ↑ Otto Winkelmüller: Memorial of the 78th Reserve Division. In: Waldemar Matthäus (arrangement): Festschrift for the consecration of the memorial and commemoration for the heroes of the 78th Reserve Division, October 4th and 5th, 1930 in Hanover. Wiener & Siemsen, Hanover n.d. (1930), p. 7.
8. ^ Dataset in the OPAC of the DNB
9. ↑ ^{a b} Sid Auffarth et al. : From Laves to today. About state building culture 1814–1988. Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-528-08736-6 , p. 137. ( limited preview in Google book search)