Paul Walcker

Paul Walcker (born May 31, 1846 in Ludwigsburg , † June 6, 1928 ) was a German organ builder.

Paul Walcker was one of the sons of the famous organ builder Eberhard Friedrich Walcker (1794–1872) and his second wife Marie Stumpp. From the winter semester of 1863/64 he studied style and architecture at the Stuttgart Polytechnic . During this time he became a member of the Ghibellinia fraternity in Stuttgart . Walcker apprenticed to his father in 1864 and worked on the organs for the Reformed Churches in Mulhouse and Glarus and the German Reformed Church in St. Petersburg .

Around 1886 Paul ran the Ludwigsburg organ company together with the four brothers Eberhard Heinrich (1828–1903), Friedrich (1829–1895), Karl (1845–1908) and Eberhard (1850–1928), where he was responsible for construction and the drawing office .

In 1892 there was a dispute with his brothers and Paul Walcker went to the organ building company Sauer in Frankfurt (Oder) through the mediation of Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg . In the spring of 1894, Walcker was already managing director and official representative of his boss Wilhelm Sauer. In 1910, Sauer retired and sold his company to Paul Walcker.

In 1917 Paul Walcker passed the Sauer company on to his nephew Oscar Walcker (1869–1948).

The son Paul Walcker jun. was a government architect and Dipl.-Ing. of electrical engineering.

Honors

• Order of the crown - for the organ in the Berlin Cathedral
• Order of the Red Eagle IV class - for the organ in the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw

literature

• Hans Joachim Falkenberg: The organ workshop Wilhelm Sauer 1910-1995. Musikwissenschaftliche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Kleinblittersdorf 1998, ISBN 3-920670-37-X .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Well-known Ghibellines - Stuttgarter Burschenschaft Ghibellinia. Stuttgart Burschenschaft Ghibellinia, accessed on November 2, 2017 .