Bruno Leiner

Bruno Leiner (born August 7, 1890 in Konstanz , † December 11, 1954 in Konstanz) was a German pharmacist , museum director and local politician.

Live and act

The Leiner family has been one of the leading families in the city of Constance since the 16th century. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the people of Lein were active as pharmacists and had a decisive influence on Konstanz's cultural life, especially since the Rosgarten Museum was founded by Bruno Leiner's grandfather Ludwig Leiner in 1870.

Bruno Leiner studied pharmacy in Erlangen, Bern and Berlin. During the First World War he served in a hospital pharmacy. Returning to Constance, he took over the Malhaus pharmacy in Constance from his father Otto Leiner (1856–1931) in 1919 and was involved in professional organizations in the following years (since 1924 district chairman of the Badischer Apothekerverein, since 1927 on the board of the Baden Chamber of Pharmacists). In 1924 he received his doctorate in Bern on "microscopic examinations of oil plasma". In addition, he shared the historical interests of his father and followed him in 1926 as an honorary “district curator of prehistoric and early historical monuments in the district court district of Konstanz”, after his death also as honorary curator of the Rosgarten Museum and as a representative of the state of Baden on the board of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its surroundings . In 1930 Bruno Leiner was elected to the citizens' committee as a city councilor for the liberal German state party .

The National Socialist " seizure of power " in 1933 ended Bruno Leiner's political career and restricted his cultural activities in Constance. He was compensated by the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings, whose international, politically neutral and peoples-unifying character Leiner always emphasized. Together with the President Ernst Schmid from St. Gallen, Leiner realized a dense and demanding program of events across the national borders on Lake Constance until just before the start of the Second World War . During the war he succeeded in preventing the association from becoming part of a politically determined command hierarchy; here he worked especially with the chairman of the Baarverein Karl Siegfried Bader . As editor-in-chief, Leiner also kept the writings of the Verein für Geschichte des Bodensee and its surroundings consistently free from political statements in favor of National Socialism and offered a forum for declared opponents of the regime, such as Fritz Harzendorf , Karl Bittel or Helmut Wolfgang Faißt. He was flexible enough to maintain good relationships with individual National Socialists such as the geographer Friedrich Metz ; this made it possible for him to print the club's publications during the war, although they were excluded from the paper allocation as "Heimatschrifttum" that was not important to the war effort.

At the end of the war, as a member of the "resistance bloc", Leiner contributed to the fact that the city of Constance was handed over to the French occupation troops without a fight. He then took part in the development of a democratic city administration, since the municipal elections of 1946 again as a city councilor and as an honorary "cultural resident". In this function, with the significant support of his daughter Sigrid, he organized the highly regarded “International Art Week of the City of Konstanz”, an exhibition of works that were not allowed to be shown during the Nazi era. With his advocacy for the fine arts and music in Constance and for the Masonic lodge “Constantia zur Zuversicht”, he continued his time before 1933.

The importance of Bruno Leiner lay in his organizational work. His written oeuvre is largely limited to short contributions to Konstanz art history and folklore in popular publications. Bruno Leiner was married to Erika Küenzlen (1895–1987) since 1917. The couple had two sons and two daughters. Daughter Sigrid (1918–2005), married to Peter Heinrich von Blanckenhagen , followed him as director of the Rosgarten Museum (1955–1983), son Ulrich Leiner (1921–1994) as owner of the Malhaus pharmacy, city councilor and editor of the Bodensee History Association. Konradin Leiner (1965–1996) was his grandson.

Fonts

The Rosgarten Museum in Constance. At the same time a cultural and historical sketch of the old Lake Constance city. Reprint of a lecture given at the instigation of the Wessenberg Monument Foundation. Publishing house by Karl Geß, court bookseller, Konstanz 1921. (digitized version)
Studies on the oil plasma and the oleoplasts. Summary of the dissertation. 1924.

literature

Ulrich Leiner: Leiner, Bruno, pharmacist, museum director in Constance. In: Bernd Ottnad (Ed.): Badische Biographien NF Volume 2, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-17-009217-0 , p. 299 f.
Werner Schenkendorf, Ernst Leisi : Bruno Leiner †. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 73, 1955, pp. 3-8. (Digitized version)
Tatiana Sfedu: A Constance citizens' organization. The Rosgarten Museum since Ludwig Leiner. (= Small series of publications by the Konstanz City Archives, Volume 7). UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2007, ISBN 978-3-89669-640-3 , pp. 149–152.

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Individual evidence

↑ Jürgen Klöckler : The Leiner family. From St. Gallen to Constance. In: Harald Derschka, Jürgen Klöckler (Hrsg.): Der Bodensee. Nature and history from 150 perspectives. Anniversary volume of the international association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings 1868–2018. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2018, ISBN 978-3-7995-1724-9 , p. 194 f.
↑ Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 136, 2018, pp. 1–302, especially pp. 135–155.
^ Lothar Burchardt : Constance between the end of the war and the founding of the university. Famine years, "economic miracle", structural change (= history of the city of Constance. 6). Stadler, Konstanz 1995, ISBN 3-7977-0260-4 , pp. 114-117, pp. 147-150.

personal data
SURNAME	Leiner, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pharmacist, museum director and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 7, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Constancy
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 1954
Place of death	Constancy

[1] Jürgen Klöckler : The Leiner family. From St. Gallen to Constance. In: Harald Derschka, Jürgen Klöckler (Hrsg.): Der Bodensee. Nature and history from 150 perspectives. Anniversary volume of the international association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings 1868–2018. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2018, ISBN 978-3-7995-1724-9 , p. 194 f.

[2] Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 136, 2018, pp. 1–302, especially pp. 135–155.

[3] Lothar Burchardt : Constance between the end of the war and the founding of the university. Famine years, "economic miracle", structural change (= history of the city of Constance. 6). Stadler, Konstanz 1995, ISBN 3-7977-0260-4 , pp. 114-117, pp. 147-150.