Paul Rother (organ builder)

Sign on the organ of the village church in Zehna

Franz Joseph Paul Rother (born January 5, 1871 in Schweidnitz , Lower Silesia , † June 9, 1960 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg organ builder .

Life

After the death of the Hamburg organ builder Christian Heinrich Wolfsteller , Rother took over his "Hamburger Orgelbauanstalt" in 1899 and continued it until 1950. After Rother's death, the company was finally closed and in 1960 it was taken out of the trade .

Rother's first marriage to Emilie Johanna Antonie Schönbohm (1869–1929) began in 1902. In 1944 he got his second marriage.

Works

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1902	Eppendorf	St. John's Church				New building; 1916 and 1947 conversions by Rother; Replaced in 1953/55
1904	Kirchwerder	Saint Severini		II / P	26th	Extension conversion
1906	Very high	Trinity Church		II / P	18th	New building; Prospectus received
1906	Franzburg	Franzburg Church		II / P	22nd	New building, from 1906 to 2007 in the Fuhlsbüttel correctional facility
1911	Ochsenwerder	St. Pancras		II / P	32	Extension conversion
1911-1913	Billwerder	St. Nikolai		II / P	32	New building
1914	Altona , today St. Pauli	Saint Joseph				New building; Destroyed in 1943
1914	Winterhude	Scholars' School of the Johanneum , Maria-Louisen-Straße				New building; Replaced in 1957
1919	Toe	Zehna village church		I / P	6th	New building behind a historic prospect, deliberately destroyed in 1953, restored in 2016 by Mecklenburg organ building
1921	Eilbek	Church of Reconciliation		III / P	39 (37)	New building
1927	Hamburg	Israelite temple				New building
1924	Uhlenhorst	Saint Gertrude		III / P	46	Repair of the organ by Ernst Röver; Replaced in 1963
1925	Harvestehude	St. John's				Extension conversion; Replaced in 1974, the prospectus of the Marcussen organ from 1882 preserved
1929	Hamburg	Saint Thomas				Extension; Destroyed in 1943
1946-1947	Hamburg	English church		II / P	22nd	After war damage, the organ by Ernst Röver was restored with a new prospectus

literature

• Gustav Fock: Hamburg's share in organ building in the Low German cultural area . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . No. 38, 1939, pp. 289–373 ( online ; Rother on page 369)
• Günther Grundmann (ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: Bergedorf ... , Verlag Wegner, Hamburg 1953, page 234 ( excerpt )
• Günter Seggermann: The Hamburg organ builder Paul Rother , in: Ars Organi 1999/1

Web links

Commons : Paul Rother (organ builder)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel, No. 1413/1960
2. ^ Günther Grundmann (ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: Bergedorf… , 1953, page 234
3. ↑ Marriage register StA Altona I, No. 1389/1902
4. ↑ Marriage register StA Hamburg 2b, No. 83/1944
5. ↑ Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 70.
6. ↑ Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas. Verlag Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 , p. 37.
7. ^ Organ in Franzburg. In: Church Music Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Retrieved June 16, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 73.
9. ↑ johanneum-hamburg.de Organ
10. ^ Tina Frühauf: Organ and Organ Music in German-Jewish Culture. 2005, p. 274 (appendix) ( digitized version ).
11. ^ Paul Marie Guillaume Joseph de Wit, Hermann Karl Anton Matzke (ed.): Journal for instrument making. 1929, p. 766 ( excerpt ).