Franz Brill

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Franz Johannes Peter Brill (born November 3, 1901 in Groppenbruch ; † September 13, 1970 in Cologne ) was a German economic historian. From 1952 to 1966 he was director of the Cologne City Museum .

Life

Brill studied economics in Cologne and received his doctorate in 1926 with the economic history study The Influence of Religious Needs on the Economy . Through his doctoral supervisor Bruno Kuske , he got a position at the Rheinisches Museum in 1926 , since 1936 redesigned and renamed the Haus der Rheinische Heimat in the former Cologne-Deutz cuirassier barracks.

In the post-war period he was initially curator from 1949 , and from 1952 director of the Rheinisches und Historisches Museum , as the institution was now called. It was reopened in Cologne-Deutz in 1953. As a new Kölnisches City Museum with Brill as director, the museum moved in January 1958 in the left-bank armory where it is housed to the present day. For the time being, however, the Alte Wache at the armory was not available for special exhibitions as it was later, so that the permanent exhibition in the armory had to be evacuated for each of these, a state that Brill was dissatisfied with and about which he complained to the head of culture.

In 1966 Brill retired from museum service due to old age. Since 1929 he was married to Luise Henriette Kalenbach. He died in 1970 at the age of 68 in his apartment in Cologne-Dellbrück .

Works

  • The influence of religious needs on the economy (an economic historical study) Bergisch Gladbach, 1928 (dissertation Cologne 1926)
  • Deutz: the story of a suburb. Publishing house "Unser Köln", Cologne 1955
  • Cologne City Museum in the armory. Cram, de Gruyter & Co., Hamburg 1965
  • The Cologne City Museum in: Cultural History in Germany V, Hamburg 1965

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate No. 2033 from September 14, 1970, registry office Cologne East. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 26, 2018 .
  2. ^ Ulrich S. Soénius : Entry Franz Brill, in: Ulrich S. Soénius / Jürgen Wilhelm (ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon, Cologne, Greven Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 80– 81
  3. ^ A b Rita Wagner: New place - new name: The Cologne City Museum moves into the armory in: Mario Kramp (Ed.): 125 years Cologne City Museum. Accompanying volume for the anniversary exhibition Emons Verlag, Cologne 2013. ISBN 978-3-95451-236-2 , pp. 153–155
  4. ↑ 1952 to 1983: New place - new name. The Cologne City Museum is moving to the arsenal museenkoeln.de, accessed on January 24, 2016
  5. ^ All for culture: The Kurt Hackenberg era in Cologne 1955-1979 ISBN 978-3-8790-9978-8 , p. 49, reference to letter of complaint to Kurt Hackenberg , January 9, 1963, HAStK Best. 1505, no. 39 p 25
personal data
SURNAME Brill, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brill, Franz Johannes Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic historian, director of the Cologne City Museum
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Groppenbruch
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1970
Place of death Cologne