Wilhelm Eilert Schmid

Wilhelm Eilert Schmid (also Wilhelm Eberhard) (born May 6, 1791 in Quakenbrück , † October 4, 1856 in Wilhelmslust near Loga ) was an organ builder who worked in East Frisia .

Life

Wilhelm Eilert Schmid came from a family of organs that had the organist Gerhard Diederich Gerdes Schmid († 1776) from Pewsum as ancestor. The various lines of the family were sometimes active over several generations, especially in East Friesland, the Oldenburger Land and the Osnabrück Land . There is evidence of work on organs from his grandson Ihno Eylard II from 1775 ( Neermoor ). His son Anton Franz was the father of Wilhelm Eilert. Anton Franz (1765–1846) moved to Quakenbrück in 1790, where Wilhelm Eilert was born. The founder of the Oldenburg line was Gerhard Janssen Schmid , the second son of Ihno Eylard II. Wilhelm Eilert returned to East Friesland and on February 11, 1816 married Catrina Magdalena Krieger, the daughter of a silversmith from Leer . Wilhelm Eilert later lived in Wilhelmslust, where he died at the age of 65. Similar to Gerd Sieben Janssen's family, the Schmid family joined the highly developed organ building culture of East Frisia from the 18th century, but could no longer maintain this level despite considerable new organs. The organ in Detern is one of the largest single-manual organs in East Frisia and, like the organ in Wiegboldsbur, is still largely original. The sound is characteristic of delicate registers such as viola di gamba and transverse flute, which have been preserved in their original form.

plant

The following new buildings by Schmid are attested, some of which are still preserved. The size of the instruments is indicated in the fifth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the sixth column. A capital “P” stands for an independent pedal, a lowercase “p” for an attached pedal.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1818-1819	Wiegboldsbur	Wibadi Church		I / p	8th	1983–85 restored by Gebr. Hillebrand
1819-1820	Detern	St. Stephen's and Bartholomew Church		I / p	12	Restored in 2002 by Martin ter Haseborg
1821-1822	Ditzum	Ditzum Church		II / P	19th	Replaced in 1965 by a new building by Karl Schuke to replace the organ that was destroyed in 1945
1822-1823	Full	Peter and Paul Church		I / P	7th	1869 reconstruction by Gerd Sieben Janssen , 1969–70 restoration by Alfred Führer
1825-1826	Empty	Mennonite Church		I / P	9	1860 pipe interiors sold to a school in Leer; Prospectus received
1834-1835	Neuburg	Neuburg Church		I / p	6th	partly reconstruction, replaced in 1883 by a new building by Folkert Becker

literature

• Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968.
• Harald Vogel , Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . 2nd Edition. Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1997, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 .

See also

• List of organ builders
• List of historical organs in East Frisia