Günther Meinert
Günther Meinert (born July 19, 1912 in Breslau ; † August 14, 1988 ) was a German archivist and historian .
Life
He came from Silesia and studied history, art history, German studies and geography at the University of Breslau from 1930 to 1935 . He joined the democratic student union. In his special field of art history, he received his doctorate in 1935 under Bernhard Patzak and August Grisebach with the dissertation The appearance of the Renaissance in Breslau .
As a scientific assistant he got a job with the provincial curator of the art monuments of the Prussian province of Lower Silesia . As such, he was commissioned to take stock of the secular architectural monuments of Wroclaw. He completed the work in 1939, at the same time he also published in the field of Silesian art history, such as a 1937 study of Albrecht Dürer's relations with Silesia.
In the Second World War he took part as a soldier. After the end of the war, he started studying art at the University of Jena . In 1946 he passed the state examination as a teacher for higher education. In the following year he passed the assessor's exam, after which he initially taught at the pre-study department of Jena University. After teaching at several schools in Thuringia and at the adult education center in Erfurt, he was employed at the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar in 1948 . On February 1, 1950, he entered the Saxon archivist service and was given a position at the Main State Archives in Dresden , where he worked as an archivist and historian for over three decades.
Günther Meinert presented numerous publications in the field of archival science and history. He was instrumental in creating the overview of the holdings of the Saxon State Main Archives , which appeared in print in 1955. He also wrote several biographies for the Neue Deutsche Biographie, for example. His other publications include trade relations between Saxony and Italy 1740-1814. A source publication that appeared in 1974.
literature
- Manfred Kobuch : Günther Meinert in memory . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 35, No. 1, 1989, p. 46.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Kobuch : Günther Meinert in memory . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 35, No. 1, 1986, p. 46.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meinert, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German archivist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 1988 |