Bernhard Meyer (publisher)

Bernhard Meyer (5 October 1860 in Fraureuth, Kingdom of Saxony – 19 April 1917 in Leipzig)[1] was a German publisher and motor- and aviation-industrialist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He is notable for being the first publisher in Germany to successfully combine a magazine subscription with an accident insurance in 1899.

Later in his life he invested in the early German motor- and aviation-industry and, most notably, together with Erich Thiele founded the Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke (DFW).

Upon his death, his publishing and aviation businesses were inherited and managed by his son-in-law, Kurt Herrmann.

[1] In 1910 he founded with Erich Thiele the Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke (DFW) which became a major aircraft manufacturer in Germany in the First World War.