Burkhard Meier (publisher)

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Paul Jonas Burkhard Meier (born December 10, 1885 in Braunschweig , † February 17, 1946 in Marburg ) was a German art historian and publisher .

Burkhard Meier was the son of the director of the Ducal Museum in Braunschweig, Paul Jonas Meier (1857–1946). He attended the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Braunschweig and after graduating from high school in 1904 studied art history in Bonn , Strasbourg (with Georg Dehio ), Berlin and Halle . In 1911 he received his doctorate from Adolph Goldschmidt in Halle. In 1911 he became a volunteer at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in Berlin, 1912–1913 assistant at the Westphalian State Museum in Münster with Max Geisberg . In 1914 he worked as an assistant to the provincial curator of the Rhineland . From 1914 to 1920 he took part in the First World War and was in captivity. In 1920 he became temporarily director of the municipal museum for arts and crafts in Halle for one year as the successor to Max Sauerlandt . In 1921 he married Erika Baensch, from this marriage the son Michael (1925–2015) emerged.

In 1921, on the recommendation of Ernst Gall, he and Gerhard Lüdtke (1875–1944) became managing directors of the newly founded German Art Publishing House in Berlin. Meier married Ellen (* 1900), the younger daughter of the publisher Walter de Gruyter , for the second time in 1936 . In 1938 he and his brother-in-law Herbert Cramm became personally liable partners of the Walter de Gruyter publishing house , and his brother-in-law was co-managing director of the German art publisher . However, there were disputes within the family with his brother-in-law, the de Gruyter publishing house separated from Deutscher Kunstverlag and on September 1, 1939, Meier and his wife became its owner and manager. At the end of the Second World War , the entire inventory of the publisher went under. Meier received an American publishing license on October 3, 1945, but died shortly afterwards.

After his death, the publishing house was converted into a GmbH with headquarters in Munich and a branch in Berlin, which was initially continued by his wife together with Ernst Hermann (1898–1984), then from 1961 by his son Michael Meier.

Publications

  • The Romanesque portals between the Weser and Elbe (= magazine for architecture, supplement 6). Winter, Heidelberg 1911.
    • Partial print as a dissertation: The Romanesque portals in Saxony. Halle 1911 ( digitized version , with curriculum vitae).
  • u. a .: Guide through the State Museum of the Province of Westphalia . Regensberg, Münster 1913 ( digitized version ).
  • with Max Geisberg: The State Museum of the Province of Westphalia in Münster . Volume I: The Sculptures . Berlin 1914.
  • Potsdam. Castles and Gardens . German art publisher, Berlin 1926.

literature

  • Who is it . 10th edition 1935, p. 1026.
  • German art publisher 1921–1996. History and future. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1996. pp. 9–10, 18.
  • Anne Katrin Ziesak: The publisher Walter de Gruyter 1749–1999. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-016698-4 , pp. 246-247.
  • Meier, Burkhard . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 6 : Kraatz-Menges . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094027-2 , p. 850 .
  • Angelika Königseder: Walter de Gruyter. A science publisher under National Socialism . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-154393-7 , pp. 33, 112-113, 134.