Max Meyhöfer

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Max Meyhöfer (born July 30, 1889 in Schwiegseln, Gumbinnen district , East Prussia ; † May 25, 1972 in Unna - Massen ) was a German high school teacher and historian.

Life

As a descendant of Salzburg exiles , Meyhöfer attended the Kneiphöfsche Gymnasium in Königsberg i. Pr. After high school he studied religion , history and geography at the University of Königsberg . On November 8, 1912, he received his doctorate there under Albert Werminghoff . In 1914 he was a substitute teacher at the Herzog-Albrechts-Schule (Rastenburg) . During the First World War he was the battery chief in a field artillery regiment.

As a student at the Löbenichtschen Realgymnasium in 1919 , he was commissioned by City School Councilor Paul Stettiner to write for the 200th anniversary of the unification of the old town (Königsberg) , Kneiphof and Löbenicht . The font appeared in time in 1924 by Graefe and Unzer .

On January 1, 1930, Meyhöfer became director of the Ortelsburg grammar school. After the Second World War , Meyhöfer became a teacher at the Cäcilienschule in Oldenburg . In 1951 he moved to Göttingen , where he worked scientifically in the state archive warehouse (formerly the Prussian State Archive in Königsberg ). He published the district books of Ortelsburg, Lötzen and Neidenburg . Since 1957 he was a member of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research .

Publications

  • The imperial foundation privileges for universities. Leipzig 1912 (dissertation, partial print, complete in Archiv für Urkundenforschung 4, 1912, pp. 291-418).
  • Königsberg's city economy from 1724 until the introduction of self-government . Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1924
  • The Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 1 in the World War (1914–1918) , Oldenburg i. O. 1926
  • Geography for higher education institutions , preliminary stage fd Nordostmark 1933
  • The Lötzen district . Wuerzburg 1961
  • The rural communities of the Lötzen district . Wuerzburg 1966
  • The rural communities of the Ortelsburg district . Leer (East Frisia) 1967
  • The Neidenburg district: an East Prussian homeland book . Bochum, 1968
  • The rural communities of the Neidenburg district - settlement, population development and economic history from the 14th century to 1945 , 1969.
  • The rural communities of the Ortelsburg district , supplementary volume, 1971
  • The Ortelsburg district . Leer (East Frisia) 1978

literature

  • F. Gause: Schulmann and local researcher. Dr. Max Meyhöfer died in the 82nd year in Unna-Massen. In: The Ostpreußenblatt June 17, 1972, p. 10.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 , p. 212.
  2. ^ Prussia 10, p. 58; Old Prussian Biography 3, 1021.
personal data
SURNAME Meyhöfer, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyhöfer, Gustav Friedrich Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwiegenken, Gumbinnen district , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1972
Place of death Unna - masses