Wolfgang Meighörner

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Wolfgang Meighörner (born February 9, 1958 in Lucerne ) is a German historian and former museum director . He is considered an expert on the history of airship travel .

life and work

After graduating from Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium in Munich in 1977 , he completed 15-month basic military service in the Bundeswehr . He is an active reserve officer in the army and completed a. a. the skydiving training . Meighörner holds the rank of Colonel dR After his military service he studied modern and contemporary history, medieval history and classical archeology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (MA 1984). In 1990 he was at Hans Schmidt at the Faculty with a thesis on the history of Zeppelin -Luftschifftyps w to Dr. phil. PhD. In 2005, at the Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, he received his habilitation and the award of the Venia legendi for modern history and modern history and the history of technology. The private lecturer teaches history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Century.

From 1983 to 1985 he was responsible for the (historical) conception and implementation of Augsburg's 2000th anniversary . In 1984/85 he was a freelancer at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. In 1986 he became head of the exhibitions in the federal capital Bonn .

In 1989 he joined Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH in Friedrichshafen , where he became head of the archive department. First, with power of attorney , he received 1,991 procuration and was also director (1991-2006) of the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, located in 1996 in the former harbor station was reopened. The new conception and design found international recognition and a. with the Special Commendation of the European Museum of the Year Award . In 2006 his contract was not renewed at his own request.

In 2007 Meighörner took over the management of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck and in personal union the management of the Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH. He was responsible for the armory , the folk art museum , the court church , the folk song archive and the Tyrol Panorama (with the Kaiserjägermuseum ). Since 2007 he has been a board member of the Austrian Museum Association and since 2009 chairman of the jury of the Austrian Museum Seal of Approval .

After public criticism of the future direction of the Tyrolean state museums, his contract, which expired at the end of 2019, was not extended.

He became a board member of the International Association of Transport and Communication Museums, a member of the board of trustees of the ZF Friedrichshafen AG cultural foundation and a member of the advisory board of the EUREGIO museums and castles Bodensee eV association

Meighörner is married and has four children.

Fonts (selection)

Meighörner is the editor of numerous exhibition catalogs.

  • with Heinrich Blumenthal: Roman crane gear train. For the reconstruction of a Roman construction crane . Bouvier, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-7928-0589-8 .
  • “... give the world the miraculous gift of mastering the sea of ​​air”. The history of the airship LZ2 (= writings on the history of the Zeppelin airship . No. 7). Friedrichshafen 1991, ISBN 3-926162-57-8 .
  • Pioneer of world aviation against his will. The history of the Zeppelin airship type "w" (= writings on the history of the Zeppelin airship . No. 8). Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen 1992, ISBN 3-926162-58-9 .
  • Albrecht Graf von Soden-Fraunhofer. Pictures of a life (= writings on the history of the Zeppelin airship . No. 10). Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen 1994, ISBN 3-926162-94-5 .
  • with Hans-Liudger Dienel : the pedal crane. Deutsches Museum, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-924183-33-3 .
  • with Peter Kleinheins (ed.): The large zeppelins. The history of airship construction. 3rd revised edition, Springer, Berlin a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-540-21170-5 .
  • with Isabelle Brandauer, Saskia Danae Nowag: The Innsbruck giant circular painting. One painting - many pictures . Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck 2013, ISBN 978-3-900083-41-0 .
  • Wolfgang Meighörner; Claudia Sporer-Heis: The emperor's stuff. Maximilian's armory in Innsbruck. Tyrolia Innsbruck-Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-7022-3816-2

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Persons and contact persons: apl. Professors and PDs , uni-oldenburg.de, accessed on June 18, 2017.
  2. ↑ Markus Schramek: Palfrader drops museum director Meighörner. Tyrolean daily newspaper from June 8, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Meighörner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne