Robert Birkner

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Robert Birkner (born December 15, 1881 in Apolda ; † August 7, 1944 ) was a German journalist as well as a daily and specialist publisher in the field of knitting.

Life

He was the son of the book printer owner Robert Birkner, who founded the Deutsche Wirker-Zeitung in 1880. His mother was Aline Birkner nee Schlange. After the untimely death of her husband, she married the book printer owner and commercial advisor Gustav Evers and together with him founded the Aline and Gustav Evers Foundation in January 1905 . This foundation provided for free beds in the city hospital in Apolda for needy residents of the city and support for the apprentice school in Apolda.

Birkner was educated in the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale). From October 1, 1894 to Easter 1897, he attended the General German Educational Institute in Keilhau , which was then under the direction of Johannes Arnold Barop , who was Friedrich Froebel's employee and his successor in the management of the school. Robert Birkner graduated from school with a one-year voluntary service certificate. He had felt very comfortable in Keilhau and was very connected to the school there and to the Keilhauers in the years that followed.

His close ties to Keilhau were also evident in the fact that he joined the association of former Keilhau (B. e. K.) and attended numerous events of this association. His membership number was 246. He later worked as editor-in-chief in Apolda , where he published the Apoldaer Tageblatt, founded in 1848 . As a publisher, he was a leader in his time by publishing knitting literature. He took over the publication of the Deutsche Wirker-Zeitung from his father, which is the official organ of the Verein Deutscher Wirkereien e. V. Berlin was.

He was a close friend of the lawyer and founder Hans Holbein , who, like him, came from Apolda and died in 1929. Later he was very close to National Socialism .

Robert Birkner died after a long illness on August 7, 1944 at the age of 62. The Apoldaer Tageblatt , which he had edited, had already ceased publication a year earlier . After the Second World War, the Robert Birkner publishing house continued to exist in Apolda and among other things published the local edition of Apolda from the local edition of Thuringian people .

Works (selection)

  • Address book for the district court of Apolda and neighboring villages . Robert Birkner, Apolda 1902.
  • Address book for the district court of Apolda and neighboring villages . Robert Birkner, Apolda 1909.

family

Robert Birkner married Feodora nee Haase in 1910 in Frankfurt for the second time. From the first marriage the son Robert Birkner jun. emerged. He attended the Keilhauer School from 1924 until his Abitur in 1933. He was born on June 5, 1913 in Apolda. The father Robert Birkner sen. visited his son on the weekends and all of Keilhau looked in amazement when he arrived with his "heavy car". Many Keilhauer and school members then spent the evenings in the inn - often with “free beer”. The consecration (confirmation) of his son was the reason for Robert Birkner to have a sidewalk built for the street from the school to the restaurant. Out of joy and gratitude, he was unanimously proposed as an honorary citizen of the Keilhaus by the “Dorfschulzen” and his advisors. The ceremony took place on May 26, 1929. At the same time the street leading to the school was named "Robert-Birkner-Straße". The street is still called that today. The pavement of the sidewalk has since been damaged, renewed and repaired several times.

Honors

  • 1929 Honorary Senator of the University of Halle
  • Honorary citizen of Keilhau
  • Street naming in Keilhau and naming of a path in Apolda

literature

  • Keilhauer leaves . 1928, No. 1, p. 7
  • Keilhauer leaves . 1929, No. 2, pp. 34-36.
  • Keilhauer leaves . 1944, No. 3, pp. 92f.
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 129.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Government Gazette for the Grand Duchy of Saxony, Volume 89, No. 2 of January 19, 1905, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 129.
  3. ^ Entry in the International Newspaper Museum
  4. ↑ Ralf Dose: An Unwelcome Gift - Dr. Hans Holbein and the Holbein Foundation PDF (accessed on May 1, 2020)
  5. ^ Stefan Matysiak: The development of the East German daily press after 1945. Break or transition? Göttingen 2004, p. 323.
personal data
SURNAME Birkner, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Apolda
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1944