Walther Genzmer

Walther Heinrich Julius Richard Genzmer (born October 22, 1890 in Cologne ; † June 13, 1983 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German architect , construction clerk and monument conservator , who also served as the state curator for the art monuments of Hohenzollern and is known as the author of art history publications.

Life

Walther Genzmer was a son of the town planner and university professor Ewald Genzmer (1856-1932), town planner in Halle (Saale) (1892-1904), professor of town planning and urban civil engineering at the TH Danzig (1904-1911) and at the TH Dresden ( 1911–1921) and Marie born. Paxmann (1860-1897).

education

Genzmer was born in Cologne in 1890 and grew up in Halle an der Saale from 1892 to 1904 , after which he and his family moved to Danzig . There he passed his Abitur at the age of 17 in 1908 and began studying architecture and art history , which he continued in Munich and Dresden.

Early years

After the main diploma examination as an architect and the state examination for government builder, he worked for the Prussian state building administration in Naumburg, Merseburg, Bad Homburg and from 1919 for the Prussian district government in Wiesbaden. In 1928 he was appointed to the building construction department of the Prussian Ministry of Finance in Berlin as a government building officer. In addition to taking care of the state palaces and gardens, he was a member of the editorial board of the state building magazines ( monument preservation and homeland protection , magazine for building , central journal of the building administration ).

Time in Hohenzollern

With effect from December 1, 1933, he was transferred to the government of the Prussian province of Hohenzollerische Lande in Sigmaringen , and began his service on January 2, 1934. He headed the Department for Building Construction, after the war and with it the end of the Prussian government, he became head of the State Building Construction Office in Sigmaringen. He was in charge of the Heilbronn State Building Department for one year until he retired in 1955.

State curator

As a retiree, he retained the post of state curator that had been entrusted to him in 1934 until 1967. He performed this task on a voluntary basis until he left in 1967. It became his life's work, and it was here that he gained a reputation and reputation beyond Germany's borders. On behalf of the general administration of the former ruling Prussian royal family, he took over the monument preservation of Hohenzollern Castle .

Fonts

The Bibliography of the Hohenzollern History lists 43 large and small publications by him. The most important are Volume I of the German Bell Atlas , the two volumes Hechingen and Sigmaringen of the Hohenzollern Art Monuments , the Hohenzollern illustrated book , the guides for Hohenzollern Castle and the Wald Monastery and the work on the Vorarlberg master builder Michael Beer , Meinrad von Ow and Johann Georg Wake-up man .

Honors

• 1952: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1960: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Web links

• Holdings N 1/83 of the Sigmaringen State Archives (estate of Walther Genzmer)