Paul Steinmeyer

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Paul Steinmeyer (born October 27, 1933 in Oettingen in Bavaria ; † August 3, 2019 there ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Paul Steinmeyer was the son of the organ builder Fritz Steinmeyer senior (born October 6, 1895 - February 2, 1974), the second son of Johannes Steinmeyer , and his wife Hilde (née Engl). After graduating from high school in Nördlingen , he began an apprenticeship as an organ builder, which he completed in 1956 with the journeyman's examination. This was followed by a one-year stay with Willis in Liverpool and London .

In 1958 he became the manager of the design office at GF Steinmeyer & Co. responsible. In 1962 he passed the master's examination to become an organ builder. In 1964 he became technical director and partner in the Steinmeyer company. In 1993 his cousin Fritz Steinmeyer resigned from the company's management due to reasons of age and handed it over to him. At the beginning of 2001, parts of the company, customers and employees of the Steinmeyer company were handed over to master organ builder Karl Göckel . Since then Paul Steinmeyer has only managed the historic buildings and the organ building archive of the Steinmeyer company.

Steinmeyer was city councilor in Oettingen from 1966 to 1982 and church council from 1972 to 1984. Steinmeyer married Sibylle von Dobschütz in 1967. They had three children together.

literature

  • Hermann Fischer : The Steinmeyer family of organ builders . Pape, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-921140-90-1 .
  • Hermann Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders 1891–1991 . Orgelbau-Fachverlag Rensch, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 315 .
  • Hermann Fischer: Paul Steinmeyer (1933–2019) . In: Ars Organi . tape 68 , 2020, p. 61 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fischer: The Steinmeyer family of organ builders. 2011, p. 67.
personal data
SURNAME Steinmeyer, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Oettingen in Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 2019
Place of death Oettingen in Bavaria