German Bestelmeyer
German Bestelmeyer ( born June 8, 1874 in Nuremberg, † June 30, 1942 in Bad Wiessee ) was a German architect and professor. Realized by Bestelmeyer buildings are mainly located in southern Germany.
Life and work
Bestelmeyer was born in 1874 the son of a military doctor. From 1893 to 1897 he studied at the Technical University of Munich under Friedrich von Thiersch and at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Friedrich von Schmidt. He then worked as a state Baureferendar in Nuremberg, as Assessor Building Department at Landbauamt Regensburg and from 1905 to 1909 as Bauassessor on Universitätsbauamt in Munich.
In 1910 he was appointed professor at the Technical University of Dresden as a successor to Fritz Schumacher. 1911 took over Bestelmeyer as the successor to Paul Wallot a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and 1915 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin as successor to John Otzen. In 1919 he was then appointed at the same time also as a professor at the Technische Hochschule Berlin -Charlottenburg. From 1922 he taught as a professor (successor of Friedrich von Thiersch ) at the Technical University of Munich. From 1924 to 1942 he was president of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Already in 1928 he had " Block " as a counter- model to the modernist avant-garde formed together with Paul Bonatz, Paul Schmitthenner, Wilhelm Kreis and Paul Schultze -Naumburg, the Union of Architects "The Ring " the architect Bruno Taut, Martin Gropius and Erich Mendelsohn. He appointed as President of the Academy in Munich, the conservative direction of Munich architecture and sat down again and again, often with the backing of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, to advanced approaches such as Theodor Fischer, Adolf Abel, Robert and Richard Vorhoelzer Riemerschmid one. He organized and a is an exhibition of works by the Norwegian cartoonist Olaf Gulbransson and provided for the extension of his teaching tenure at the Academy of Arts.
Bestelmeyer was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and the nationalist -minded, anti -Semitic League of Struggle for German Culture. After the " seizure of power" by the Nazis in 1933, he joined the NSDAP. In 1935 he was appointed Reich Culture Senator. At his instigation Hitler received in 1937 the Medal of Honor of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in gold, since Hitler " began the national idea as a focal point of the spiritual life and guidance of the arts in his old law. " 1938 Bestelmeyer with various projects on the first German Architecture Exhibition in represented Nazi House of German Art.
After Bestelmeyer death Hitler ordered a state funeral. He was transferred to Munich, laid out in the Academy of Fine Arts and on July 4, 1942, flanked by 300 HJ- members, managed in the atrium of the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. There, the funeral was held the capital of the movement in the presence of Joseph Goebbels and representatives. Then Bestelmeyer has been buried in the family circle in the forest cemetery.
Works (selection)
Buildings
The Gustav Adolf Church in Nuremberg - Galgenhof, 2010
The Melanchthon Church in Nuremberg - Brick, 2010
The Christ Church in Neuburg an der Donau, inaugurated in 1930
Monuments
- Oskar von Stobaeus monument in Regensburg (together with Georg Albert Hofer)
- War memorial in Rosenheim (together with Georg Albert Hofer)