Werner Meyer (historian, 1909)

Werner Meyer (born November 25, 1909 in Hanover , † September 18, 1987 in Munich ) was a German preservationist and castle researcher .

Life

Meyer studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover , where he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. In 1941 with his work on "the German castle" . received his doctorate . Meyer was not only concerned with architecture and art history , but also worked for many years in the Bavarian monument preservation . Already from 1934 was for the Bavarian Landesdenkmalamt active, which he finally as until his retirement in 1974, public curator belonged.

He wrote numerous books, essays and articles about German castles, which earned him the nickname “Burgen-Meyer”.

The art monuments of Bavaria

Meyer edited the editions for the book series Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern

• Middle Franconia, Volume 10, District of Lauf an der Pegnitz, together with Wilhelm Schwemmer, 1966, ISBN 3-486-42091-7
• Swabia, Volume 4, City and District of Lindau (Lake Constance), together with Adam Horn, 1954, ISBN 3-486-41841-6
• Swabia, Volume 5, City and District of Neuburg a. d. Donau, together with Adam Horn, 1958, ISBN 3-486-50516-5
• Swabia, Volume 6, City of Dillingen a. d. Donau, together with Alfred Schädler, 1964, ISBN 3-486-41781-9
• Swabia, Volume 7, Dillingen a. d. Donau, 1972, ISBN 3-486-43541-8

Publications (selection)

• Protection for friends, defiance for enemies. The German castle . Weidlich, Frankfurt 1963 (print version of the dissertation from 1941).
• with Erich Lessing : German knights, German castles . Bertelsmann 1976
• Castles, palaces and fortresses in Germany and Europe. 3 volumes. Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1979 (special edition for Flechsig book sales. 2002, ISBN 978-3881894692 ).
• Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Weidlich Verlag, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 .

literature

• RW: On the death of retired state curator Dr.-Ing. Werner Meyer. In: Castles and Palaces . Journal for Castle Research and Monument Preservation. Volume 29, No. 1, 1988, ISSN  0007-6201 , p. 37, doi: 10.11588 / bus.1988.1.41817 .

Web links

• Literature by Werner Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} R. W .: On the death of retired state curator Dr.-Ing. Werner Meyer. 1988, p. 37.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Werner Meyer: Castles. How they became, what they looked like, and how they lived in them. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-426-03684-3 , front endpaper .