Theodor Wildeman

Theodor Wildeman (born October 17, 1885 in Bonn ; † June 25, 1962 there ) was a German architect , Prussian building official and monument conservator .

Life

Wildeman studied architecture between 1906 and 1910 at the Technical University of Darmstadt , among others with Heinrich Walbe . After completing his studies, Wildeman initially stayed as an assistant to Walbe at the university until he was appointed to the preservation of monuments in the Rhine Province in 1914 by Edmund Renard, Bonn's provincial conservator . During the First World War he did military service . After the war, he continued his work in the preservation of monuments and was promoted to state master builder and deputy provincial curator in 1921. In 1929, he was promoted to the provincial building council. During the last years of the Second World War , when the provincial curator Franz Graf Wolff-Metternich was doing military service in France, Wildeman organized the protection of the Rhenish cultural monuments and the safe storage of movable cultural assets. In 1950 he was appointed to the state building council. In 1951, Wildeman was retired.

Buildings (selection)

• from June 9, 1924: Expansion of the St. Anna Chapel in Bachem

Publications (selection)

• The repair of half-timbered buildings. Their exposure and colored treatment. Perceptions, ways and goals. In: Yearbook of the Rheinische Denkmalpflege. Volume 7. Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1931, pp. 63-68.
• The Rhenish half-timbered building. In: Rheinisches Land, magazine for rural welfare and home care in the Rhineland. 12th year 1932, pp. 24–35.
• Homestead and farmhouse shapes in the Eifel. In: Rheinische Heimatpflege . 7th year 1935, pp. 202–223.
• Rhenish moated castles and water-defended castle buildings. Schroeder, Cologne 1937.
• The castle on the Lower Rhine and its relationship to German and Italian castle building. In: Die Heimat , Krefelder Jahrbuch, magazine for culture and homeland maintenance on the Lower Rhine. 17th year 1938, pp. 227–250.
• Mill ponds. In: Rheinische Heimatpflege. 12th year, Cologne 1940, pp. 74–78.
• Reich Ministry for Aviation and from the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education (ed.): The salvage of movable art treasures in the Rhineland and their ongoing care. Berlin 1942, pp. 39-50. '
• Bedburg an der Erft. (= Rheinische Kunststätten , Volume 13.) Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz, Neuss 1957.

Awards

• 1953: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Arnold Mock: Obituary. In: Der Niederrhein , 29th year 1962, p. 116.
• Hans Vogts : Theodor Wildeman as a monument conservator. In: Yearbook of the Rheinische Denkmalpflege , Volume 25. Kevelar 1965, pp. 13-18.
• Franz Graf Wolff-Metternich: Theodor Wildeman. For the 25th anniversary of service. In: Yearbook of the Rhenish Preservation of Monuments , Volume 16. Cologne 1939, p. 507.

Web links

• Literature by and about Theodor Wildeman in the catalog of the German National Library