Willi Peter

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Former company headquarters at Mülheimer Freiheit 113–115, 51063 Cologne

Willi Peter (born May 8, 1907 in Brandenburg an der Havel ; † February 27, 1978 ) was a German organ builder whose organ building workshop in Cologne-Mülheim still exists today.

Life

Willi Peter was born in Brandenburg an der Havel and from 1921 learned the profession of organ builder at the Sauer company in Frankfurt (Oder) . At that time, the Sauer company had, in addition to the main company in Frankfurt, six branch offices in Germany to maintain the instruments built by the company. The branch office for West Germany was in Cologne. Therefore, Peter moved to Cologne in 1928. In 1934 he passed the master's examination as an organ builder. After the war, his previous employer was in the Soviet occupation zone (later GDR). So Peter was forced to go into business for himself. He benefited from three factors: firstly, his existing business connections in the Rhineland , secondly, the numerous parishes that needed new organs after the war destruction and reconstruction, and thirdly, the denomination . Until the 1960s, one of the criteria for choosing an organ builder was also his denomination. Since Peter was the only Protestant organ builder in the Rhineland, his company built numerous organs mainly in Protestant churches in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area. It was not until the mid-1960s that Peter began building organs in Catholic churches more often.

company

In June 1945 Willi Peter finally moved to Cologne and opened a small workshop in Cologne-Sülz. Since the company was constantly developing, he acquired the property in Cologne-Mülheim in 1952, which is still the company's traditional headquarters today. After the death of Willi Peters, the company was continued by two of his employees, Helmuth Klöpping and Georg Eglseder (* November 17, 1930; † January 26, 2017), and since 2004 by Christoph Böttcher and Thomas Kötschau. Christoph Böttcher has been the sole owner of the company since 2015.

In 2004, the company attracted attention by converting the organ in the Sankt Peter Cologne art station into an instrument for contemporary music with percussion and unusual innovations based on the concept of Peter Bares .

List of works (selection)

year opus place building image Manuals register Remarks
1955 Koblenz Christ Church Christ Church 01 Koblenz 2012.jpg III / P 35
1957 Bonn-Kessenich Friedenskirche III / P 31 The organ was renovated in 2003 by the Lenter company in Sachsenheim
1963 Mülheim an der Ruhr - Speldorf Luther Church Organ of the Luther Church, Speldorf III / P 41 The organ was renovated in 2016 by Stephan Oppel
1966 274 Hamburg New main church St. Nikolai Nikolai new organ 2.jpg IV / P 63 The organ is no longer ready to play and has been shut down since Easter 2018.
1969 Cologne Antoniterkirche
Antoniterkirche (Cologne) 2.JPG
 III / P 37
1971/2004 Cologne St. Peter Cologne St. Peter main organ.jpg IV + II / P 110 2004 Reorganization and expansion according to the ideas of Peter Bares by organ builder Willi Peter
1973 St. Petersburg St. Peter's Church Stockholm-Tyska kyrkan 06.jpg III / P 43 3309 pipes; built for the German Church in Stockholm , sold to St. Petersburg in 2016, inaugurated in 2017
1975 Nuremberg St. Sebald
Nuremberg Sebald organ (1) .jpg
 IV / P 68
1975 Nordlingen St. George Nördlingen St Georg Orgel Gallery.jpg IV / P 51 2005 Expansion by Rensch organ builder
1983 Quickborn Marienkirche Quickborn, Marienkirche, organ.jpg II / P 20th 2002 restoration
1990 Cologne St. Severin
Cologne Basilica St. Severin inside organ.jpg
 III / P 42 2012 New construction of the three-manual console, relocation and rotation of the console, expansion by 2 registers to 44 registers (solo flute 8 ′, base 32 ′) and replacement of two existing registers with new ones (Bourdon 8 ′, Krummhorn 8 ′) by the organ building company Mühleisen ( Stuttgart-Leonberg)
before 1997 Mülheim an der Ruhr-Speldorf Luther Church Side organ of the Luther Church, Speldorf The small organ was originally located in a Mülheim parish hall and has been in the right aisle of the Luther Church since 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b G. Fedrowitz, R. Müsing: 10 years monastery star community . Self-published, Hauptkirche St. Nikolai, Hamburg 1966.
  2. ↑ A main church with a decommissioned organ. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Michael Gassmann, Karl Wilhelm Boll, Kurt Danch: Tools of Silence - The new organs in Sankt Peter zu Cologne. Wienand, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-87909-859-X ; Disposition of the organ.
  4. ^ Peter organ, German Church, Stockholm
  5. ↑ Disposition of the Peter organ (PDF)
  6. ↑ Swedish organ inaugurated in St. Peter's Church . In: St. Petersburg Herald , September 30, 2017
  7. ↑ Disposition of the organ ion-musica-sacra.de
  8. ↑ Disposition of the organ musik.sankt-georg-noerdlingen.de
personal data
SURNAME Peter, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1978