Ortwin Meier

Ortwin Meier (born July 1, 1881 in Bremen ; † May 26, 1941 ) was a German numismatist .

life and work

Ortwin Meier worked at the Provincial Museum in Hanover from 1909 to 1929 and there, in addition to his work as a secretary (most recently in the rank of regional chief inspector), head of the coin cabinet from 1911. He was self-taught in the field of numismatics. In 1936 he was appointed representative of the provincial administration for coin research in Lower Saxony.

He conducted research on coins and medals in northern Germany , especially in Lower Saxony from the Middle Ages to the early modern period, and published numerous articles on this. He wrote about essays on the Brakteatenfund of Bokel or Hohlpfennig Fund of Wistedt , on mints such as the Mundsburg of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hildesheim or biographical such as the medal Heinrich Friedrich Brehmer .

Fonts (selection)

• A Brunswick-Lüneburg hollow pfennig from the 2nd third of the 14th century . In: Berliner Münzblätter , Vol. 38/40 (1917/19) pp. 279–282
• with Bernhard Engelke : The hollow pfennig find from Wistedt, Harburg district (= Berliner Münzblätter , 1921/1922). Bahlke, Berlin 1922
• A coin apprentice's robe from the middle of the 17th century in the Hannover Provincial Museum. A contribution to coin and costume science (= Berliner Münzblätter , 1924, no. 255–258). Verlag der Berliner Münzblätter, Berlin 1924
• Magnificent pieces of Lower Saxony medieval coins (= Lower Saxony art in individual representations , vol. 11). Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1925
• (Ed.): Petrus Tergast : The coins of the counts of East Friesland (1464-1540) . In: Emdener Jahrbuch 21, 1925, pp. 1–56 ( PDF ).
• Heinrich Friedrich Brehmer, the master of the German portrait medal of the 19th century . A. Lax, Hildesheim 1927
• The electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg mint director Heinrich Bonhorst . In: Communications of the Society for Gotha History and Antiquity Research 1929, pp. 30–40 ( digitized version )
• The bracteate find from Hornhorst, district of Celle . In: Blätter für Münzfreunde , vol. 67, 1932, pp. 405-410.
• The bracteate find from Bokel near Bevern, Bremervörde district. A contribution to the research of the medieval, especially the Lower Saxony coin monuments from the period from around 1195 to 1225 . In: Hannoversches Geschichtsblätter NF 2, 1932, pp. 1–160
• with Heinrich Buck: The coins of the city of Hanover , ed. on behalf of the mayor of the capital Hanover. Self-published by the capital Hanover, Hanover / Hess, Frankfurt a. M. 1935
• The Guelph liege counts of the Middle Ages and their coinage. A contribution to the clarification of the feudal relationships in the Duchy of Saxony . In: Deutsche Münzblätter , Vol. 58/59 (1938/39) pp. 1–5, 23–27
• The early medieval mint "Mundburg" of the Hildesheim diocese . In: Deutsche Münzblätter , Vol. 58/59 (1938/39), pp. 153–162, 181–187. 224–228 ( PDF )

literature

• Theodor Ulrich: Obituary for Ortwin Meier . In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 18, 1941, pp. 335–336.

Web links

• Publications by Ortwin Meier in the Opac der Regesta Imperii