Paul Engelmeier

Paul Engelmeier (born June 29, 1888 in Birnbaum-Lindenstadt (Posen) , † September 19, 1973 in Telgte ) was a German lawyer, administrative officer and museum director. During the Weimar Republic he was a politician of the Center Party from the environment of the later Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and city councilor in Münster in Westphalia . There he headed the municipal advertising and transport office and was the syndic of the general guild of local crafts.

Life

After receiving his doctorate in 1912, Engelmeier was initially an in-house officer at the guild committee for local crafts and from 1919 managing director of the Münster crafts (Chamber of Crafts). In 1928 he was elected to the city council and headed the department for trade and handicrafts, transport and cultural advertising.

In keeping with his religious worldview, he organized the 69th German Catholic Day from September 4th to 7th, 1930 in Münster. During the election campaign for the Reichstag in 1930, he refused the NSDAP the Westfalenhalle for Hitler's election campaign appearance. Because of his political stance, he was removed from his position after the seizure of power in 1933 with reference to the law for the restoration of the professional civil service .

Engelmeier moved to the neighboring small town of Telgte and founded the "Heimathaus Münsterland" as a "pilgrimage and local history museum" (opened in 1934; today RELíGIO - Westphalian Museum for Religious Culture ).

After he was reinstated as a city councilor in 1946, Engelmeier was again responsible for promoting tourism.

Cultural work

In contrast to the then traditional orientation of local museums as a permanent collection, he designed the new house he founded in 1934 as a location for changing exhibitions. The themes of these exhibitions were a. the religious folk art and pilgrimage memories. At the same time, their aim was to revive the modern Münsterland craft culture.

In addition to the publications on topics related to tourism in Westphalia, which are part of his official duties, he has been publishing on the religious folk culture of Westphalia since 1938.

Engelmeier gained supraregional and in some cases international fame for the nativity scenes he organized annually in cooperation with the “Regional Association of Crib Friends in Rhineland and Westphalia”, which are still held today in the RELíGIO Museum.

He received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and other state and church awards.

Individual evidence

↑ Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann : City history in the Nazi era: case studies from Saxony-Anhalt and comparative perspectives . LIT Verlag, Münster 2005.
↑ Presentation of the RELiGIO museum in Telgte. RELíGIO Museum, archived from the original on November 7, 2015 ; accessed on November 7, 2015 .
↑ Anja Schöne: Museum Heimathaus Münster and Nativity Scene Museum Telgte: From a pilgrimage and local history museum to a Westphalian museum for religious culture . In: Things - Spaces - Times. Religion and piety as an exhibition theme . Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2009.
↑ Paul Engelmeier (Ed.): Telgte homeland book . 1981, DNB 820192805 .
↑ Paul Engelmeier: Westphalian hunger scarves from the 14th to the 19th century . Aschendorf, Münster 1961, DNB 451114795 .
↑ Paul Engelmeier: The Telgter image of grace through the ages . Hansen, Telgte 1964, DNB 451114787 .
^ Franz Krins: Biography and Bibliography of Dr. Paul Engelmeier . In: Franz Krins (Hrsg.): Festschrift Fünfzig Jahre Heimathaus Münsterland, Telgte (1934-1984) . Telgte 1984.

personal data
SURNAME	Engelmeier, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, administrative officer and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH	June 29, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Birnbaum-Lindenstadt (Poznan)
DATE OF DEATH	19th September 1973
Place of death	Telgte

[1] Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann : City history in the Nazi era: case studies from Saxony-Anhalt and comparative perspectives . LIT Verlag, Münster 2005.

[2] Presentation of the RELiGIO museum in Telgte. RELíGIO Museum, archived from the original on November 7, 2015 ; accessed on November 7, 2015 .

[3] Anja Schöne: Museum Heimathaus Münster and Nativity Scene Museum Telgte: From a pilgrimage and local history museum to a Westphalian museum for religious culture . In: Things - Spaces - Times. Religion and piety as an exhibition theme . Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2009.

[4] Paul Engelmeier (Ed.): Telgte homeland book . 1981, DNB 820192805 .

[5] Paul Engelmeier: Westphalian hunger scarves from the 14th to the 19th century . Aschendorf, Münster 1961, DNB 451114795 .

[6] Paul Engelmeier: The Telgter image of grace through the ages . Hansen, Telgte 1964, DNB 451114787 .

[7] Franz Krins: Biography and Bibliography of Dr. Paul Engelmeier . In: Franz Krins (Hrsg.): Festschrift Fünfzig Jahre Heimathaus Münsterland, Telgte (1934-1984) . Telgte 1984.