Ernst Meier (media scientist)

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Ernst Karl Meier (born September 4, 1893 in Munich , † September 17, 1965 in Schweinfurt ) was a German politician ( BVP ), economist and newspaper scientist . He belonged to the resistance against National Socialism .

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Munich , Meier studied philosophy , law and political science at the universities of Munich , Tübingen , Berlin and Erlangen . In 1919 ( Dr. phil. ) And 1921 ( Dr. rer. Pol. ) He received his doctorate .

In 1920 he became a consultant in the foreign trade department of the Foreign Office in Nuremberg. He later went to the Franconian Courier in Nuremberg as a trade editor and a lawyer at the Association of Bavarian Newspaper Publishers . In 1924 he completed his habilitation in economic political science and became a private lecturer at the University of Erlangen; he was the managing director of the Erlangen University Association.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1934, because of his membership in the Bavarian People's Party (BVP), for which he previously ran unsuccessfully for the Bavarian state parliament and was on the Erlangen city ​​council from 1929 to 1933 , and the BVP defense organization Bayernwacht , founded in 1932 , whose chairmanship he held in Franconia, dismissed. He was subsequently arrested repeatedly ( protective custody ) and lived on the subsistence level . By chance he became the “right hand” of the Bavarian resistance group around Franz Sperr , who was executed in 1945. Joachim H. Knoll later referred to him as “ left liberals , Bavarian loyalty to home”.

In 1935 he was appointed to Beijing , but was unable to take up the position due to the Second Sino-Japanese War . In 1937 he became an expert at the Defense Economic Inspectorate in Munich. In 1939 he gave a lecture series of the German Society for Defense Policy and Defense Sciences and the University of Munich on the subject of "The economy in the world wars". From 1939 to 1945 he served in the Wehrmacht , most recently as captain of the reserve. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner of war .

After 1945 he was first district administrator in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate . He was also a trustee of the industrial company Buchtal AG. In 1948 he became associate professor for economics at the Nuremberg University of Economics and Social Sciences , where he headed the Institute for Journalism. From 1949 he was also a lecturer for journalism at the University of Erlangen and the Philosophical-Theological University of Bamberg. His academic students included u. a. Wilhelm Bierfelder . In 1964 Meier retired, he then worked as a journalist. He was u. a. Employee at the hand dictionary of the businessman and the hand dictionary of ergonomics . Together with Karl d'Ester he edited the manual for the press . He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Nuremberg Joseph E. Drexel Foundation .

Meier was married twice and had one child. His estate is in the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Archives.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Gustav Aubin , Eduard Lukas, Hero Moeller , Carl L. Sachs, Adolf Günther : Eheberg-Festgabe. Contributions to economic history and social theory. Carl Theodor von Eheberg on his 70th birthday . A. Deichert, Leipzig 1925.
  • German reparation manual . A. Deichert, Leipzig 1927.
  • Time table of the German reparations 1918–1930 . Palm & Enke, Berlin 1930.
  • Alfred Nobel, Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prizes . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1954.
  • Newspapers in Greenland (= publications of the Institute for Journalism at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . H. 1). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961.
  • Newspaper City Nuremberg (= writings of the Institute for Journalism at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . H. 2). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1963.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nathan Kravetz: Displaced German scholars. A guide to academics in peril in Nazi Germany during the 1930s (= Studies in Judaica and the Holocaust . No. 7). Borgo Press, San Bernardino 1993, ISBN 0-89370-374-5 , p. 32.
  2. ↑ Joachim Lilla (edit.): The Bavarian State Parliament 1918/19 to 1933. Nominations, composition, biographies (= materials on Bavarian regional history . Volume 21). Commission for Bavarian State History , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7696-0421-4 , p. 171.
  3. ^ Christoph Friederich: The Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg 1743-1993. History of a German university. Exhibition in the City Museum Erlangen, October 24th, 1993 - February 27th, 1994 (= Publications of the City Museum . No. 43). Edited by the Stadtmuseum, Erlangen 1993, ISBN 3-930035-00-6 , p. 104.
  4. ↑ Winfried Becker: The resistance in Bavaria against the Nazi regime. In: Werner J. Patzelt , Martin Sebaldt , Uwe Kranenpohl (eds.): Res publica semper reformanda. Science and political education in the service of the common good. Festschrift for Heinrich Oberreuter on his 65th birthday . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15393-3 , p. 459.
  5. ^ Walter Ziegler:  Sperr, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 670 f. ( Digitized version ).
  6. ^ Joachim H. Knoll : Youth Movement. Phenomena, impressions, imprints. An essay . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1988, ISBN 3-8100-0713-7 , p. 131 f.
  7. ^ Winfried Becker: The Bavarian resistance group around Franz Sperr and Otto Geßler. In: Ulrich Karpen (ed.): Europe's future. Presentation of the Kreisau Circle around Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (= CF Müller Wissenschaft ). Müller, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8114-5333-5 , p. 40.
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meier, Ernst A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (BVP), economist and newspaper scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1965
Place of death Schweinfurt