Bernd Mayer (journalist)

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Bernd Mayer (born March 10, 1942 in Berlin ; † December 2, 2011 in Bayreuth ) was a local German journalist , local researcher and local politician .

Life

House of the master baker Johann Popp on the Bayreuth Röhrensee

Mayer's father was the lawyer and economist Friedrich Mayer, who died at an early age, and was a member of the government at the Reich Ministry of Economics in Berlin in 1942 . That year he was drafted into the artillery, and Bernd's mother returned to Bayreuth with her two children. Grandfathers were Friedrich Mayer (administrative officer of the government of Upper Franconia ) and the master baker Johann Popp, in whose house on Röhrensee Bernd spent his first years.

In autumn 1948 the father became the head of the Bayreuth Housing Office. From 1946 Bernd attended the kindergarten in the Pottaschhütte , from 1948 first the Luitpoldschule and later again the local school in the Pottaschhütte. In 1960, Bernd Mayer co-founded the first Bayreuth school newspaper , and passed his Abitur at the local Christian-Ernestinum grammar school . He studied temporarily Jura , from 1963 he worked as city editor at the Bayreuther Tagblatt .

Mayer was the editor of the Heimatkurier and, since 1970, of the Evangelical Press Service . He was the author of numerous publications on the history of the city in Bayreuth and well known beyond the city limits. In his possession was probably the largest archive collection about Bayreuth.

From July 1972 Mayer was owned by the city council at Bayreuth, first as a member of the CSU -Stadtrats fraction . In October 1994 he left the CSU and from January 1995 he was a member of the city council of the Bayreuth community . From 1990 to 2002 he was honorary second mayor, from 2002 to April 2008 third mayor. From May 2008 to the end of November 2009 he was chairman of the city council group of the Bayreuth community , and since December 1, 2009 1st deputy group chairman. At the end of 2011, he resigned from the city council due to a serious illness. On the occasion of his departure from the city council, he was awarded the honorary title of old town councilor .

Bernd Mayer's grave in the Bayreuth city cemetery

From 1982 to 1990 Mayer was a member of the Upper Franconian District Assembly for the CSU . In 2011, a few weeks before his death, he became the 48th honorary citizen of the city of Bayreuth . Mayer was married and had two children.

Works

  • Bayreuth as it was. Flash lights from the city's history 1850-1950 . Gondrom, Bayreuth 1981.
  • Bayreuth. The last 50 years . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 1983.
  • Bayreuth à la carte. A century on postcards . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 1987, ISBN 3-925361-03-0 .
  • Bayreuth Chronicle 1989 . Gondrom, Bindlach 1989.
  • Bayreuth (archive images) . Sutton, Erfurt 1998, ISBN 978-3-89702-075-7 .
  • Bayreuth in the twentieth century . North Bavarian Courier, Bayreuth 1999.
  • Bayreuth. Turbulent times. The 50s (with Wolfgang Lammel) . Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-672-9 .
  • Bayreuth. Eventful times. The 60s (with Wolfgang Lammel) . Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2001, ISBN 3-8313-1205-2 .
  • Mysterious Bayreuth . Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2003, ISBN 3-8313-1297-4 .
  • Bayreuth April 1945. “They're hacking our town bar now” . Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2004, ISBN 3-8313-1463-2 .
  • A city is being de-Nazified. The Gau capital Bayreuth in front of the Spruchkammer (with Helmut Paulus ) . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2008, ISBN 978-3-925361-67-8 .
  • Jewish Bayreuth (co-editor and co-author) . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2010, ISBN 978-3-925361-81-4 .
  • Working and living in Bayreuth (with Gerda Mayer) . Sutton, Erfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-745-7 .
  • A brief history of the city of Bayreuth . Pustet, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7917-2266-5 .

Honors

Bernd-Mayer-Platz in downtown Bayreuth

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth as it was. Flash lights from the city's history 1850-1950 . Gondrom, Bayreuth 1981, p. Dust jacket .
  2. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth as it was. Flash lights from the city's history 1850-1950 , page 7 f.
  3. ↑ That's how it used to be. Mayer's exit from the CSU in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of October 18, 2019, p. 10.
  4. ^ Members of the District Assembly since 1954 ( Memento from December 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), website of the District of Upper Franconia, accessed on January 13, 2015.
  5. ^ Website of the North Bavarian Courier from December 2, 2013 ( Memento from March 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 22, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local journalist, local researcher and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 2011
Place of death Bayreuth