Wolfgang Deurer

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Wolfgang Deurer at the Willibrordi Cathedral in Wesel

Wolfgang Günter Deurer (born January 23, 1934 in Kassel ) is a German architect and monument conservator . He has been a master builder at Willibrordi Cathedral in Wesel since 1961 .

Life

Wolfgang Deurer giving a lecture at Willibrordi Cathedral in Wesel

Wolfgang Deurer was born into a family of builders. His father was the architect, conservator and cathedral builder Jakob Deurer (1898–1960).

Wolfgang Deurer's father was sent to Danzig in 1941 to head the Keibel assembly group ; his family, including his son Wolfgang, accompanied him. At the end of the war, the family was evacuated on a ship belonging to the German Navy. After a short stay in Berlin, the Deurer family moved to Cologne . As early as 1948, the father was commissioned to rebuild the Willibrordi Cathedral in Wesel . From 1951 to 1953, Wolfgang Deurer completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer at the cathedral builder there. After obtaining his journeyman's certificate, Wolfgang Deurer began studying civil engineering at the Cologne and Mainz University of Applied Sciences , which he completed in 1960. A second degree followed, this time in the field of art history at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . He later continued his father's work in Gdansk and received his doctorate in 1982 from the Technical University of Gdansk on historical and conservation problems in Gdansk church buildings.

Since 1961 he has been working as a freelance architect and master builder in monument conservation. In this role, he advises and leads renovation projects on historic buildings and gives specialist lectures at home and abroad.

In 2001 Wolfgang Deurer was given a teaching position at the Institute for Art History at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

Honors

  • 1981: Order of the Polish Minister of Culture " Honorable Polish Culture "
  • 1982: Medal of Honor 600 years of “Our Lady of Czestochowa” from the Curia of the Catholic Church in Gdansk
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (June 28, 1991)
  • 1991: Professional title "Professor", awarded by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2000: St. Adalbert Medal of the City of Gdansk
  • 2003: Pomeranian Merit Medal
  • 2004: Entry in the Golden Book of the City of Jena
  • 2010: Award of an honorary doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena

"Your monument preservation and scientific activities, which, in addition to the Wiesenkirche in Soest, particularly benefited the Wesel Cathedral and the churches of the city of Danzig, have received a lot of recognition in Germany and Poland."

- Johannes Rau

Supervised construction and renovation projects (selection)

Order Museum, Kamp Monastery
Orsoy Evangelical Church

Publications (excerpt)

Wolfgang Deurer is the author of numerous scientific reports and monument conservation project developments. He also published:

  • 1975: (together with Walter Stempel): Klever Tor and Klever-Tor-Fries in Wesel. Willibrordi Dombauverein publishing house, ISBN 3-928926-04-7 .
  • 1991: The ornamental vaults in the Willibrordi Cathedral in Wesel. Willibrordi Dombauverein publishing house, ISBN 3-928926-04-7 .
  • 1990: The Significance of Style Change in German Architecture of the 14th Century. Bauhütte of the Wiesenkirche, Soest.
  • 1991: Two centuries meet. 19th century legacy. Challenge for the 21st Century. Demolition or preservation of the Kreuzeskirche in Essen. Expert study on behalf of the City of Essen in preparation for the restoration of the Kreuzeskirche in Essen, City of Essen.
  • 1996: Improvement of working conditions as well as occupational health and safety for stonemasons using the example of a cathedral building. Series of publications by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Wirtschaftsverlag NW. ISBN 978-3-89429-956-9
  • 1996a: Danzig. Documentation of 52 historical churches. ISBN 3-00-000978-7 .
  • 2005: Willibrordi Cathedral. Sed de suo resurgit rogo. Boss Druck und Medien, Kleve. ISBN 3-933969-51-4

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Deurer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ www.westpreussen-berlin.de/Vortragsarchiv/Bildungswerk2004/36149.htm
  3. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
  4. ↑ Online chronicle of the city of Jena.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.jena.de  
  5. ^ Lutz Prager: Cathedral builder Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Deurer honorary doctorate from the University of Jena . In: Thüringer Allgemeine , January 19, 2011. Accessed December 11, 2011. 
  6. ^ Wesel: Honorary doctorate for Deurer . In: Rheinische Post , January 18, 2011. Accessed December 11, 2011. 
  7. ↑ Deurer 2005, p. 118.
  8. ^ Rehabilitation concept of the Protestant Orsoy Church by Prof. Deurer (PDF; 2.1 MB).
  9. ^ Historical town hall Wesel
  10. ↑ Latin: "but out of himself he rises from the ashes."
personal data
SURNAME Deurer, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deurer, Wolfgang Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and preservationist, master builder in Wesel
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel