Many thanks to Wolfgang and others on the list who answered my request.
The fact the books are readily available is good news, and the biographical
details are just what I wanted.
Best wishes, Doug
On 26 Sep 2014, at 11:26, Wolfgang R. Dick wrote:
> Heinz Schumacher was a teacher at the vocational school for sculptors
> and stonemasons ("Friedrich-Weinbrenner-Gewerbeschule") in Freiburg im
> Breisgau, in the south-west of Germany (close to the French Strasbourg),
> and got the academic titles of "Dipl.Ing." (Diplom-Ingenieur, i.e.
> engineer with higher eduction) and of professor ("Studienprofessor",
> not university professor - sometimes teachers got this title also). For
> 25 years, until 1974, he had been the director of that school, and I
> guess he retired in that year. Because he was born in 1909 (see below),
> he was 65 in 1974, so that a retirement in that year is very probable.
>
> This information is mainly from an article about the history of the
> school:
>
> http://www.natursteinonline.de/fileadmin/NatursteinDaten/Heftarchiv/2010/NS_10_1_aktuell/Im_Wandel_der_Zeit.pdf
>
> It notes also that he teached his pupils about sundials.
>
> There is a short note about him in the German journal "Kosmos",
> Vol. 71, 1975, p. 178, indicating that he was born on
> 7 September 1909 in Freiburg and that his fields of work
> were "Steintechnik, Bildhauerei, Sonnenuhren", which means
> stonemasoning, sculpturing, and sundials.
>
> https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/3BSQ7VGYIADNCKAO6RRFZQWIEP25RTC5
> has an entry for "Schumacher, Heinz Prof. Dipl. Ing."
> from the collection of biographical newspaper cuttings in
> the state archive (Landesarchiv) of Baden-Wuerttemberg,
> indicating that he was born in 1909 in Freiburg and that he
> was an architect.
>
> However, other sources called him a sculptor and stonemason.
>
> He also edited a booklet about the opening of the planetarium in
> his (former) school in March 1975:
> Das Freiburger Planetarium an der Gewerbeschule II,
> Freiburg im Breisgau, Friedrichstrasse 51.
> Festschrift zur Eroeffnung Maerz 1975. Red.: Heinz Schumacher.
> Freiburg i. Br: Direktion d. Gewerbeschule II, 1975. 21 ungez. Bl.
>
> I guess he is no longer alive, but I could not find from an
> Internet search when he died.
>
> Kind regards,
> Wolfgang Dick
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