Hans Schürer

Hans Schürer (born September 24, 1911 in Munich ; † March 25, 1996 there ) was a German photographer.

Life

The son of a worker in the Nymphenburg porcelain factory completed his apprenticeship as a lithographer at the Müller and Son company in the Munich book trade house. Since he had been enthusiastic about photography since he was 12, he traveled a lot with an old plate camera and later with a Leica camera . At the beginning of the war he volunteered for a propaganda company in the western campaign . He was then used in the attack on Poland , observed the Leningrad blockade and took part in the Ardennes offensive .

Schürer documented life in the early post-war period, from the May celebration in 1946 with Mayor Thomas Wimmer at the foot of the Bavaria to the constituent assembly on Herrenchiemsee , from the first appearance of the Munich Philharmonic in peacetime in the large auditorium of the Ludwig Maximilians University to the distribution of food for the severely disabled . He worked for Das Bayerland , Ullstein Verlag and the German Alpine Association , advertised pastry shops and rest houses, showed new fashion and architecture, portrayed American soldiers and captured "all the ruins" in photographs. He remembered returnees, evacuees and refugee camps. This mourning work suggests one to remember his grave in the Nymphenburg cemetery .

literature

• Richard Bauer: Years of Ruins, Pictures from Destroyed Munich, 1945–1949. Munich 1983, ISBN 3-88034-202-4 , p. 4.
• Friedrich Prinz (Hrsg.): Rubble time in Munich, culture and society of a German city on the move 1945–1949. Munich 1984, ISBN 3-406-09520-8 , p. 459.

Web links

• One-hour conversation with Hans Schürer, project week on the subject of "Forty Years After" at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium Munich, spring 1985, (* .mp4; 930 MB)
• TV documentary by Peter Solfrank: Photo treasure in need: the work of Hans Schürer. (8 minutes) Bayerischer Rundfunk, April 14, 2019, accessed April 15, 2019; Photos from the war: The work of photographer Hans Schürer , BR-Doku, April 18, 2019, accessed on April 21, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The interesting sheet. Vienna March 18, 1942, p. 2. (anno.onb.ac.at)
2. ^ Znojmo daily newspaper. November 24, 1944, p. 2. (anno.onb.ac.at)
3. ↑ Photo collection, archive of the Munich labor movement, materials 1946 May 1st (protest-muenchen.sub-bavaria.de)
4. ↑ Genealogy network, database (grabsteine.genealogy.net)