Ottogerd Mühlmann

Ottogerd Ludwig Wilhelm Mühlmann (born February 12, 1908 in Schmargendorf ; † May 26, 1987 in Nuremberg ) was a German teacher , art historian and monument conservator .

Life

Since his father Fritz Mühlmann's career change within the Carl Zeiss Jena company , Ottogerd Mühlmann attended the Reformrealgymnasium in Jena . From 1927 he studied philology , theology and philosophy in Jena , Vienna , Leipzig and again in Jena for teaching. As an assistant teacher at the Leutenberg Secondary School, he took the mandatory training course for teachers at the Thuringian State School for Leadership and Politics in Egendorf in July 1934 . In 1934 Mühlmann switched to the Weida secondary school , received his doctorate in Jena in 1937 and was appointed to the teaching staff in 1941. In 1944/45 he was suspended from duty.

From 1949 Mühlmann was secretary in the Kulturbund of the GDR and acted as a representative of the city of Jena as a preservationist. In numerous lectures and teaching units at the Volkshochschule Jena and through many (sometimes popular) scientific publications, he promoted the idea of monument protection . Since 1953 Mühlmann was mainly a lecturer for English at the University of Jena . Because of his membership in the NSDAP (since 1937) he was first removed from the SED (since 1946) and released from the university in 1957. After moving to West Germany, he continued to publish on Jena and Thuringian topics in East and West German journals. In 1990 a street in Jena-Nord was named after him as the “Nestor of the Jena Monument Protection Movement” .

Memberships

• Institute for Austrian Historical Research
• German Castle Association
• Vogtland antiquity research association in Hohenleuben
• Historical Society Weida (Chairman)

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Investigations on the "floor book" of the city of Jena from 1406 , Jena: Vopelius 1938 (partial print of the dissertation).
• Parish Frießnitz . Building history and furnishings of its churches , Weida: Aderholds Buchdruckerei 1939.
• The life of a Biedermeier. Carl Ludwig Wachler , Weida 1941.
• About the face of our Thuringian ancestors. The carved figures of the Reichenfels Museum and their significance for the present , Weida (self-published): Emil Wüst & Söhne (printer) 1945.
• Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the altar in Friesau , Lobenstein: Goehring 1947.
• Architectural monuments from Jena's surroundings. Witnesses to our past (= publication by the Volkshochschule Jena-Stadt), Jena 1954.
• Jena as a medieval city (= pictures of the history of Jena, Volume 2), Jena 1956, 2nd edition Jena: Kessler 1959.
• The university town of Jena (= pictures on the history of Jena, Volume 3), Jena: Kessler 1956; 2nd edition 1959.
• Nice home around Jena. Valleys and heights, villages and churches, castles and ruins, things hiked and researched in Jena's surroundings , Part 1 (= writings of the Jena City Museum, Volume 6), Jena: Kessler 1967; Part 2 (= writings of the Jena City Museum, Volume 9), Jena: Keßler 1970.
• The stones talk. Churches of the Jena superintendent in words and pictures, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin 1970.
• Rare finds and research by a monument conservator. Contributions from Jena and its near and far surroundings, Nuremberg 1977.

Essays

• Florian Geyer , a pioneer of ethnic and social character. Lecture given on February 1, 1943 in the Deutsche Gesellschaft zu Leipzig , in: National Socialist monthly books, series 155/156 (1943), February / March, pp. 58–70 / 130–142.
• Dr. Heinrich Bergner . Pastor and art historian , in: Willy Quandt (arr.): Important men from Thuringian rectories. Gift of the Thuringian Church to the Thuringian people, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin 1957, pp. 112–120.
• Herald of Thuringian folklore: Marthe Renate Fischer . On the return of her birthday on August 17, 1851 , in: Rudolstädter Heimathefte, 7th year (1961), issue 8/9, pp. 221–223.
• The millennial tradition of the church in Lobeda near Jena , in: From twelve centuries. Twenty-one articles on the history of the Church in Thuringia (= Thuringian Church Studies, Volume 2), Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin 1971, pp. 45–57.
• The pilgrimage church to Ziegenhain near Jena. A documentation about the building and its history , in: Yearbook for the history of Central and East Germany, Volume 29 (1980), pp. 96–112.
• The late Gothic altarpiece in Ammerbach near Jena , in: Kultur und Geschichte Thüringens 4 (1983), pp. 107–127.
• Orlamünde Castle on the Saale , in: Culture and History 6 (1985), pp. 101–112.
• [From someone who loved Jena]: Outline of a history of the monument protection movement in Jena after 1945, in: Kultur und Geschichte Thüringens 7 (1986/87), pp. 121–143.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ottogerd Mühlmann in the catalog of the German National Library

literature

• Joachim Hendel: "From someone who loved Jena" - Ottogerd Mühlmann (1908-1987). Heimatforscher, Denkmalschützer, Rassewart , in: Gerbergasse 18 , Edition 71 (2014), Issue 2, pp. 29–34. Biography and Bibliography. geschichtwerkstatt-jena.de, accessed on October 12, 2014 .