Paul Hartmann (art historian)

Paul Hartmann (born April 22, 1869 in Ludwigsburg , † September 11, 1944 in Darmstadt ) was a German art historian .

Life

Paul Hartmann was born as the son of the privateer Karl Hartmann and his wife Pauline Weigle in 1869 in Ludwigsburg in Württemberg . Paul Hartmann is a descendant of the Ludwigsburg orphanage schoolmaster Israel Hartmann (1725–1806) and his son Gottlob David Hartmann (1752–1775). Paul Hartmann was baptized as a Protestant and raised a pietist. After graduating from high school, Hartmann studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen and art history at the University of Strasbourg from 1888 to 1893 . In 1893 he took the first theological examination. This was followed by a job as an assistant chaplain in Ehningen near Reutlingen . In 1894 he was released for scientific tasks. From 1895 he was a teacher at the theological seminary in Maulbronn . In 1899 he received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen. phil. PhD. In 1900 he took the 2nd theological examination.

In 1902 Hartmann became an assistant at the Commission for Monument Preservation for the inventory of the art monuments of the Rhine Province in Bonn. In 1904 he became a private lecturer at the University of Bonn. From 1905 to 1907 he completed his habilitation at the University of Strasbourg. He was then appointed private lecturer there. In 1912 he was finally awarded the title of professor. On April 1, 1916, Paul Hartmann took up the position of full professor for art history in the department of cultural and political science at the TH Darmstadt . He thus succeeded Wilhelm Pinder , who moved to the University of Breslau . From 1926 to 1928 Hartmann was dean of the department for cultural and political sciences at the TH Darmstadt. In the winter semester of 1931/32, art history was assigned to the architecture department. This assignment is still valid today.

Paul Hartmann was ousted from office after the National Socialists came to power in 1933. The trigger was a memorandum written by Karl Lieser about numerous professors in the Department of Architecture. The 64-year-old professor of art history was then asked to make way for a younger successor as a “national act”. He applied for retirement, which took place on September 30, 1933. His assistant Ottilie Rady was able to stay in the architecture department for some time.

Paul Hartmann died on the night of September 11th to 12th 1944 in the heaviest air raid on Darmstadt in World War II. Paul Hartmann had been married to Elisabeth Mann since 1907.

Publications

• 1910: The Gothic monumental sculpture in Swabia, Munich.

literature

• Melanie Hanel: The Technical University of Darmstadt in the “Third Reich” , dissertation, Darmstadt 2013.
• Christa Wolf and Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt , Darmstadt 1977, p. 75.