Gerhard Menz

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Gerhard Max Heinrich Menz (born February 10, 1885 in Kreuzburg , Upper Silesia , † January 16, 1954 in Leipzig ) was a German economist and book trade expert .

Life

From 1904 to 1910 Menz studied philology, history and economics in Munich a. a. with Lujo Brentano and at the University of Breslau . There he did his doctorate phil. and passed the first state examination to become a high school teacher. During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Breslau . This was followed by military service from 1911 to 1912. In 1912 Menz became editor-in-chief of the conservative Weimarische Zeitung , from 1913 to 1915 he worked as a journalist for the Tsintauer (war) news in the German colony in China. After the Japanese occupation, he headed the state Kaiser Wilhelm School in Shanghai from 1915 to 1919 .

From 1920 to 1925 he was an economic and journalistic advisor and speaker for training issues in the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels in Leipzig and from 1921 to 1933 editor-in-chief of the Börsenblatt for the German book trade. In 1922 he began as a part-time lecturer for book trade management and the economic history of East Asia at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management . From 1925 to 1946 he was a regular associate professor for book trade there. In 1933 he was also given a teaching position at the Berlin School of Commerce . Because of his studies "Die Zeitschrift" (1928) and "Zeitschrift und Zeitschriftenkunde" (1931), he is one of the founders of systematic magazine research alongside Joachim Kirchner and Jakob Friedrich Meißner . When magazine studies became the subject of newspaper studies in 1935 , he received a teaching position for magazine studies at the University of Leipzig . As the successor to Walter Schöne , he received a Gutenberg teaching assignment to research the early history of the press from the city of Leipzig, where the first daily newspaper appeared, in 1944 .

In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . As a commentator on the legislation on the Reich Chamber of Culture , he was completely in line with the politics of Joseph Goebbels .

From 1946 to 1949 Menz taught as a full professor for business administration at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Leipzig and from 1949–1951 as a professor with a chair for business administration and journalism . He was the first director of the Institute for Journalism at the University of Leipzig (GDR).

Fonts

  • The development of the view of the Germanization of Silesia in Silesian historiography up to Stenzel , Breslau 1910.
  • The magazine as a guide , Leipzig 1935.
  • The battle for northern China , 1936.
  • The structure of the culture class: the Reich Chamber of Culture legislation , its foundations and its successes , Beck, Munich 1938.
  • The European book trade since the Congress of Vienna , Würzburg 1941.
  • Research into the early history of the press and its current significance . Inaugural lecture given on June 24, 1944
  • Gutenberg Primer , Potsdam 1949.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 146, DNB 012645753 .
personal data
SURNAME Menz, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menz, Gerhard Max Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and book trade expert
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Kreuzburg , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1954
Place of death Leipzig