Wilhelm Sauer

Wilhelm Sauer ( born March 23, 1831 in Schonbeck [ Note 1 ]; † April 9, 1916 in Frankfurt on the Oder; Complete name: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Sauer ) was an organ builder from the Romantic period and late Romantic period.

Life

Wilhelm Sauer was a younger son of originating from the Prussian Pomerania smith Ernst Sauer (1799-1873) and his wife Johanna Christina, born Sumke (1800-1882), born in Schoenbeck at Friedland in Mecklenburg -Strelitz. The father had built in 1835 energized with a self-taught organ for his residence stir. The Grand Duke then gave him a scholarship with the condition that he can train as an organ builder, what happened in Ohrdruf.

When William was seven years old, the family moved to the neighboring town of Friedland, where his father established a factory building and started the commercial organ building. There, Wilhelm spent his youth, attended high school and was supposed to go to the Berlin Academy of Architecture. However, since 1842, his older brother Johann Ernst died, who would have his father's business to continue, Wilhelm 1848 left school before graduation and was now prepared themselves for the succession in the family business. He learned the Father organ building and then went back in 1851-1853 on the craft usual wanderings which led him, inter alia, to Paris, Ludwigsburg and to England and Switzerland.

1855 took over sour first line of a branch of his father's factory in German crown, which had been opened there for the Prussian market in order to avoid customs fees. On March 1, 1856 Wilhelm Sauer eventually opened his own business as an organ builder in Frankfurt ( Oder), which flourished quickly, temporarily branches in Königsberg (1860 ) possessed and soon delivered abroad.

Wilhelm Sauer built with his staff in his lifetime over 1100 organs. His largest and most famous organs are among others in the Berlin Cathedral (1903, IV/113 ), St. Thomas Church in Leipzig ( 1888/1908, III/88 ) and in the town hall Görlitz (1910, IV/72 ). The time the biggest organ in the world in the Wroclaw Centennial Hall ( 1913 V/200 ) is no longer in their original form. The bulk of the organ is now in the Wrocław Cathedral.

Sauer sold the company in 1910 to his long -time managing director and deputy Paul Walcker.

In 1859 married Wilhelm Sauer and Minna Auguste Penske († 1876), daughter of a cantor. The marriage came from the daughter Johanna ( 1859-1887 ). 1878 married sour second wife Anna Bauer ( born January 18, 1848 † August 11, 1924 ), daughter of brewery owner and the City Council in Potsdam. With her he had sons William (1879-1962) and Franz Gustav Adolf (1883-1945 missing). His grandson Wolfgang Sauer (1920-1989) was a professor of German history at the University of California, Berkeley.

Wilhelm Sauer's grave stone is now in the Kleist Park in Frankfurt ( Oder). The Kleist Park was formerly a cemetery, by rebuilding the exact location of the grave is not secured.

Honors

150 years Messrs. Sauer

On October 6, 2007 in the concert hall Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Frankfurt ( Oder) was celebrated with a ceremony of the 150th anniversary of its founding. Before about 500 guests the history of the company Sauer was presented. In the subsequently presented organ concert was played on a Sauer organ, which was built in 1976. Wilhelm Sauer's motto was:

" We praise God and make him ruler, build new organs and repair the old ones. "

Works (selection)

This list contains selected existing New organs of the workshop, and some destroyed by new buildings or other organ builders replaced organs.

The size of the instruments is described in the column ' manuals ' by specifying the number of manuals and the presence of a pedal as well as in the column 'Register' by specifying the number of sounding register. In the column ' manuals ' the design of the pedal by labeling with a großens "P" for a stand-alone pedal, a small " p" is specified for an attached pedal. A italics indicates that the organ in question is no longer maintained or only dates back to the prospectus of the workshop.

Restoration 1995-2003 by Workshop Christian Scheffler.

Did not get work, Neubeu 1893 behind existing brochure 1978 Workshop shock & Sons.

Formerly: Driesen (Neumark )

Formerly: Evangelical Church