Stephan Buchkremer

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Stephan Buchkremer (born February 24, 1901 ; † June 16, 2000 ) was a German electrical engineer and founder of the Aachen Cathedral Guard.

Stephan Buchkremer was the son of the Aachen cathedral builder Joseph Buchkremer and brother of Joseph Ludwig Buchkremer , who later became auxiliary bishop of the Aachen diocese .

Stephan Buchkremer attended the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen and studied physics and electrical engineering at the RWTH Aachen , where he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. received his doctorate. In 1937, Stephan Buchkremer received a gold medal at the Paris World's Fair . He had succeeded in making a billionth of a second measurable.

Stephan Buchkremer founded the Dom fire fighting group ( Domwache ) in 1941 to protect Aachen Cathedral from the bombing of the Second World War. Before the National Socialists came to power, Buchkremer was active in the Bündische Jugend (including in the German Scout Association ) and, after their ban, headed the group Grenzdeutsche Jungenschaft in Illegality until it was forcibly dissolved.

After the end of the Second World War, Buchkremer married Adelheid Collette, whom he had recruited as the first member of the cathedral guard. After the war Buchkremer was managing director of the Cologne high voltage company.

Together with his wife, Buchkremer was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on June 2, 1987 .

On September 9, 1995, Mayor Jürgen Linden presented him with the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, among other things for his services to the preservation of Aachen Cathedral and the safeguarding of cultural and historical values.

Stephan Buchkremer found his final resting place on Westfriedhof II in Aachen.

literature

  • Hermann Weisweiler: Stefan Buchkremer. Flame knight, cathedral rescuer and photographer. Aachen 1997, ISBN 3-89124-330-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wandervogel: Honoring Stephan Buchkremer in Aachen ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on March 17, 2014.
  2. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
  3. ^ City of Aachen Chronicle 1995 (PDF; 27 kB) accessed on April 21, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Buchkremer, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, member of the Bündische Jugend and founder of the Aachen Cathedral Guard
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1901
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2000