Herrmann Julius Meyer

Herrmann Julius Meyer ( born April 4, 1826 in Gotha, † March 12, 1909 in Leipzig) was a German publisher.

Life

Herrmann Meyer was born the son of the publishing bookseller Joseph Meyer in the Thuringian town of Gotha residence in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha -Altenburg. After an apprenticeship as a bookseller, he worked in the publishing house of his father, which had been founded in 1826 as a Bibliographical Institute in Gotha and was in Hildburghausen in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen since 1828.

In the wake of the March Revolution Herrmann fled to the United States. 1849 Herrmann Meyer founded a branch in New York. After the death of his father he took over in 1856 the now economically depressed Publishing and consolidated it. In 1874 he transferred the seat of the Bibliographic Institute Hildburghausen in the Kingdom of Saxony in Leipzig.

Herrmann Meyer had six sons, including: Hans ( African explorer and first man to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, 1858-1929 ), Arndt ( 1859-1920 ), Carl ( 1861-1908 ) and Hermann ( 1871-1932, also an explorer in Africa).

1884 moved Herrmann Meyer from the publisher and handed him his eldest sons Arndt and Hans.

In 1888 he founded in Leipzig, the Association for the edification of cheap flats. The club he walked on 3 April 1900 in the Foundation for the edification of cheap flats, today Foundation Meyer'sche homes to. The Foundation built until 1914 with a total of four residential colonies around 2700 homes in the districts Leipziger Lindenau, Eutritzsch, Reudnitz and Kleinzschocher. The architect Max Pommer (1847-1915), who saw a fatherly friend in Meyer, was charged with the acquisition, planning and development of land.

Herrmann Meyer was buried in the South Cemetery Leipzig (third division).

Honors

In his year of death to him the inhabitants of the colony Reudnitz donated a plaque and 1928, a street in the colony Kleinzschocher was named after him Herrmann- Meyer-Straße. In the vernacular, he is still honored by the designation Meyer village for the colony Kleinzschocher.

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