Peter Findeisen

Peter Findeisen

Peter Findeisen (born September 11, 1941 in Leipzig ; † June 9, 2012 in Halle ) was a German art historian and monument conservator.

Life

After graduating from high school, he studied art history at the University of Leipzig in 1960 and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . He received a teaching position at the art history institute of the KMU. From 1971 to 1984 he was a research assistant, senior and senior curator at the Institute for Monument Preservation, Halle office. Since his habilitation thesis was not accepted by the University of Halle , he left the GDR and worked from 1985 to 1996 as a research assistant at the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office . In 1990 he completed his habilitation in Halle and then also took up residence there in the Dölau district . He became an adjunct professor at the Institute for Art History and Archeology of Europe at the University of Halle and in 1997 became head of department at the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt . There he headed the inventory until 2006 .

In his spare time Peter Findeisen mainly dealt with music. As a student he sang in the Leipzig University Choir, later in a chamber choir in Halle. In his home music group he played viol .

Peter Findeisen was a member of the Protestant Research Academy .

Salvage of the art property of the University Church Leipzig

When it was decided on May 23, 1968 to demolish the University Church in Leipzig , the employees of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments were immediately prohibited from entering the church. The responsible employee of the City Council of Leipzig, Dr Hubert Maaß, therefore commissioned the then freelance Peter Findeisen, who was therefore not affected by the ban, to salvage the church's art. He created an inventory in a very short time in order to organize the rescue of the interior fittings. Within a week before the demolition, he and a group of stonemasons succeeded in dismantling and rescuing a large part of the interior of the church.

Publications (selection)

• The monuments of the city of Torgau , (with Heinrich Magirius ), Leipzig 1976
• Cottbus and Leipzig districts (except Leipzig city district) . In: Fate of German Monuments in the Second World War . Edited by Götz Eckardt. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1978
• The monuments of Lutherstadt Wittenberg , (with Fritz Bellmann, Marie-Luise Harksen and Roland Werner) Weimar 1979
• Town center atlas Baden-Württemberg. City of Rottweil. Rottweil district. With topograph. Map table , Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-89021-012-0
• Town center atlas Baden-Württemberg. City of Kirchberg an der Jagst . District Schwäbisch Hall 1997, ISBN 978-3-89021-578-5
• Town center atlas Baden-Württemberg. City of Vellberg . District of Schwäbisch Hall 1998, ISBN 978-3-89021-579-2
• History of the preservation of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. From the beginnings to the first third of the 20th century , (with Hans-Joachim Mrusek ), Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-345-00465-8
• The Luther sites in Eisleben , Munich 1993
• Monuments and sites of the Reformation in Wittenberg , Munich 1994
• On the oldest city view of Überlingen , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 112th year 1994, pp. 59–70 ( digitized version )
• City of Marbach am Neckar: Ludwigsburg district , Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-89021-572-6
• The Blue Books, Halberstadt, Dom, Liebfrauenkirche and Domplatz , Königstein 1997
• The Stephanskirche in Tangermünde , Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7954-5651-7
• The Magdalenenkapelle of Moritzburg zu Halle (article: The restoration and refurbishment 1898), Halle 1999
• From Barby to Gnadau: Architektur der Herrnhuter an der Elbe , Halle 2005, ISBN 3-910010-86-5
• The village churches in Halle, Denkmalwerte - Denkmalorte 3, (with Dirk Höhne), Halle 2006, ISBN 3-939414-00-X
• Early monument documentation and travel sketches. The drawings by the city architect Wilhelm Ludwig August Stapel (1801–1871) in the Marienbibliothek zu Halle (Saale). State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2012, ISBN 978-3-939414-73-5 .

literature

• Ulrike Wendland : Peter Findeisen 1941–2012 , in: Die Denkmalpflege Volume 70, 2012, Issue 2, pp. 184–185.
• Heinrich Magirius: Peter Findeisen (1941–2012) , in: Preservation of Monuments in Saxony - Communications from the State Office for Preservation of Monuments in Saxony , 2013 yearbook, ISSN 0943-2132, pp. 143–145.
• Peter Prohl: In memory of Peter Findeisen (1941–2012) , in: Christian Ammer, Peter Prohl (Ed.), Gestalten und Bewahren , Evangelische Forschungsakademie Hannover 2013, pp. 7–11, ISBN 978-3-9813549-5- 9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The whole action shaped. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .