Erich Meinhold
Ernst Erich Meinhold (born May 5, 1908 in Scheibenberg ; † July 13, 2004 in Chemnitz ) was a German worker photographer .
Life
The trained carpenter Erich Meinhold from the Erzgebirge community of Markersbach had been a member of the Workers 'Gymnastics and Sports Association since 1923 and joined the Association of Workers' Photographers in Germany (VdAFD) in 1930 . Even as an apprentice, he took photos with his first plate camera and in 1931 joined the Bermsgrüner worker photographers , an active local group in the Ore Mountains in western Saxony. Meinhold was unemployed between 1929 and 1933. In 1932 Meinhold was briefly imprisoned for putting up a KPD election poster on a chimney of the Georgi cardboard factory in Mittweida . Meinhold moved to Zwickau in early 1933 and was active in a small resistance group.
In early 1934 he and other members of the resistance group were arrested for smuggling illegal publications across the German-Czech border and sentenced to prison. After his imprisonment expired, Meinhold was sent to the Sachsenburg concentration camp near Chemnitz.
In 1943 he belonged to a probation unit of the Wehrmacht stationed in Oostmalle / Belgium . Meinhold worked as a carpenter between 1947 and 1956, and from 1956 to 1960 he held the office of deputy mayor of Markersbach, where he owned a house in today's Hammerstrasse near the community forest. Between 1960 and 1973 he worked as a skilled worker in the washing machine factory in Schwarzenberg . At the end of 1999 Meinhold moved his residence from the Förstel retirement home in Raschau to Chemnitz, where he died on July 13, 2004.
plant
The holdings of Erich Meinhold's work in the Deutsche Fotothek department of SLUB Dresden include around 200 motifs on 250 negatives and 10 positives. It was acquired in 1986.
Parts of his photographic work were shown in 1983 in the exhibition “Bermsgrüner Arbeiterfotografen” in the Otto-Nagel-Haus in Berlin and in 1988 in the exhibition “Arbeiterfotografie in Sachsen” in the Galerie am Brühl in Karl-Marx-Stadt .
Web links
- Information on Erich Meinhold in the Deutsche Fotothek
- Pictures by Erich Meinhold in the Deutsche Fotothek
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meinhold, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meinhold, Ernst Erich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German worker photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Scheibenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 2004 |
| Place of death | Chemnitz |