Gerhard Menz
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.
literature
- Arnulf Kutsch: Menz, Gerhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 101 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Jürgen Kühnert: The history of fixed book prices in Germany: from its beginnings to 1945 . ( Dissertation from the University of Munich , 2009.) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-06098-1 , limited preview in the Google book search, ( JSTOR j.ctvbd8ks8 ).
- Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: A Study of Institutional and Personal History . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , pp. 778f.
- Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 217.
Web links
- Gerhard Menz in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Menz, Gerhard. In: Universität Leipzig , tabular curriculum vitae, publications, literature, (PDF; 83 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 146, DNB 012645753 .
personal data | |
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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 |