Heinrich Leher

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Heinrich Leher (born August 14, 1848 in Munich ; † August 27, 1909 there ) was a German journalist and publicist , he founded the local history magazine " Das Bayerland " .

Live and act

"Das Bayerland" , title page from 1904

Leher attended high school in Metten and Passau , after which he began an apprenticeship as a pharmacist . He studied pharmacy at the University of Munich , where one of his professors was Justus von Liebig . Following the pharmaceutical state examination, Heinrich Lehrer worked for seven years as a pharmacist in Switzerland and the Rhineland.

He was also active as a writer. Under the influence of the Munich newspaper publisher Adolf Krätzer (1845–1907), he turned completely to the journalist profession in 1881 and joined the editorial team of the “Münchner Fremdblatt” published by him . It was a Catholic-Conservative newspaper that corresponded to the personal attitude of Leher, but who was always proud to be politically independent and to have kept away from party life "with painstaking care" .

In 1889 Heinrich Leher left the "Münchner Fremdblatt" . The journalist, interested in local history and history, founded the magazine “Das Bayerland” in the same year , with the subtitle “Illustrierte Wochenschrift für Bayerns Volk und Land” . He wanted to promote the homeland ties to the Kingdom of Bavaria and its parts of the country. It mainly contained historical and regional articles, often with extensive illustrations. It also contained appreciations and obituaries of Bavarian personalities, as well as fiction articles. Until his death, Leher was mainly concerned with editing and editing them. The magazine became the most important of their profession in Bavaria and consisted, interrupted by World War II until the 1990th

Bavaria monument on the Eggmühl battlefield

On the side, Leher worked as a drama and opera speaker for the "Neuen Münchner Tageblatt" , also a Catholic-conservative newspaper. Heinrich Leher was one of the founders of the Munich Journalists 'and Writers' Association in 1881, of which he was second chairman since 1903. He held the honorary title of a real royal council . From 1906 Leher was a prominent supporter of the building of a Bavaria monument on the Eggmühl battlefield (1809).

The historian Isolde Rieger writes about him: "It is not an exaggeration to say that he was one of the few professional journalists who were courtly and socially competent and whom the Wilhelmine era, in all its bourgeois stiff class spirit, recognized and appreciated."

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  1. ^ Anton Bettelheim: Biographisches Jahrbuch und deutscher Nekrolog , 1907, p. 337; (Section scan with data on Adolf Krätzer)
  2. ^ Franz Brunhölzl, Max Spindler: Handbook of Bavarian History , Volume 4, Part 2, p. 1150, Beck Verlag, 1981, (detail scan)
  3. ↑ Monika Fenn: Bavarian history in science and teaching . Herbert Utz Verlag, 2011, ISBN 3831641234 , p. 110 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  4. ^ Anton Bettelheim: Biographisches Jahrbuch und deutscher Nekrolog , Volume 14, 1912, p. 192; (Detail scan)
  5. ^ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1908, p. 590; (Detail scan)
  6. ↑ Monika Fenn: Bavarian history in science and teaching . Herbert Utz Verlag, 2011, ISBN 3831641234 , p. 110 ( limited preview in Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Leher, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1909
Place of death Munich