Hermann Meinert

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Hermann Meinert (born September 20, 1894 in Bremen , † December 7, 1987 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German historian and archivist.

life and work

Meinert grew up in his native city of Bremen, where he also attended school until he graduated from high school. From 1912 to 1914 he studied natural sciences in Freiburg . He took part in the First World War and was taken prisoner by the French, where he turned to the classical languages. From 1920 to 1924 he studied history and German as well as classical philology and philosophy in Marburg and Berlin , where he received his doctorate with a thesis on the falsifications of Gottfried von Vendôme .

From 1927 to 1940 he worked at the Prussian Secret State Archives, where he was appointed State Archives Council in 1931. In 1940 he took over the management of the Reichsarchiv Reichenberg in the Sudetenland . In 1942 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, where he served until the end of the war.

After the end of the war he worked at the City and Cathedral Archives in Erfurt until October 1946 . In May 1947 the city of Frankfurt am Main appointed him head of the Frankfurt City Archives , which he remained in charge of until he retired in September 1959.

Around two thirds of the archive holdings were destroyed by an air raid on January 29, 1944 , the archives that had been removed in time were scattered, all archive buildings were destroyed or severely damaged. Under Meinert's direction, the consolidation and sifting of the remaining stocks began. In 1948 his inventory of the lost inventory appeared in the first post-war edition of the Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art . Meinert arranged for the security film to be made of the archive material received and devoted himself to expanding the historical archive material.

In addition to his work as a city archivist, Meinert made a contribution to the reconstruction of Frankfurt historical research. In 1947 the Frankfurter Geschichtsverein was re-established and he took over management, and in 1949 the Frankfurt Historical Commission . 1951 awarded him the Faculty of Law at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University for the honorary doctorate .

In 1956 Meinert was given a lectureship in Frankfurt history at the University of Frankfurt, and in 1967 an honorary professorship. From 1950 to 1960 he was the second chairman of the Association of German Archivists.

Meinert was the editor of various publications on Frankfurt history - the sources on Frankfurt history , the Frankfurt images of life and the archive for Frankfurt history and art . In addition, Meinert published numerous scientific and popular books, including Das Frankfurter Rathaus (1952, with Theo Derlam), From the election and coronation of the German emperors in Frankfurt am Main (1956).

For his services to the city of Frankfurt, he was awarded the honor plaque of the city of Frankfurt am Main in 1964 , the Roman plaque of the city of Frankfurt am Main in silver in 1969, and the Roman plaque in gold in 1972.

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SURNAME Meinert, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1987
Place of death Frankfurt am Main