Hermann Hinz

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Hermann Hinz (1973)

Hermann Hinz (born February 13, 1916 in Wangerin , Pomerania , German Empire , † December 21, 2000 in Bad Krozingen ) was a German prehistoric scientist .

Life

Hermann Hinz, son of Ida and Wilhelm Hinz, was born in Pomerania in February 1916. From 1922 to 1926 he attended elementary school in Köslin (today: Koszalin), and in 1935 he graduated from the secondary school there. He then did a voluntary labor service and from 1935 to 1937 the military service. In 1937 he began studying prehistory in Lauenburg in East Pomerania (today: Lębork) and moved to Freiburg im Breisgau in 1938 , where he studied prehistory, anthropology, art history, history, geology, folklore and classical archeology. From 1939 to 1941 he did his doctorate in Greifswald in the fields of anthropology, history, classical archeology, art history, folklore, geology and prehistory. In 1941 he wrote his dissertation on The Prehistory of the Dramburg and Neustettin Districts. (Prehistory and early history) at the Philosophical Faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel .

From 1939 Hinz did military service in World War II and was wounded and taken prisoner of war. In 1945, released from captivity, Hinz was employed in the elementary school service of Schleswig-Holstein in Langenhorn in North Frisia until 1948 . From 1947 to 1948 he worked as a volunteer cultural curator for the preservation of monuments in North Friesland. He worked as a freelancer for the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum for Prehistory and Early History from 1949 to 1952 and received a research grant from the German Research Foundation (subject: Prehistoric house building in northern Central Europe ). From 1954 to 1957 he worked on the archaeological survey of the Bergheim / Erft district for the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn as a state museum council in Bonn. In 1957, Hinz received a position as State Museum Councilor and head of the Lower Lower Rhine branch of the Rhenish State Museum in Xanten . During this time, Hinz was in charge of large-scale excavations in the Roman city of Colonia Ulpia Traiana .

In 1965 Hermann Hinz received an extraordinary professorship and became institute director for Prehistory and Protohistory at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory, Philosophical Faculty, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in Kiel, which was changed to a full professorship in 1969.

Hinz retired in 1981 and died in 2000 in Bad Krozingen, Baden-Württemberg.

family

Hinz was married and had two children.

Honors

  • Panzer Badge in bronze (1941), Wound Badge in Black (1941), Iron Cross II Class (1941), Iron Cross I Class (1941), Eastern Medal (1942), Wound Badge in Silver (1943) and Close Combat Clasp I Level (1944 )
  • A commemorative publication was published for Hermann Hinz's 65th birthday

Fonts (selection)

  • The excavations in the Old Reformed Church Wuppertal-Elberfeld , Wuppertal 1954
  • Prehistory of the North Frisian mainland , Neumünster, 1954
  • The history of the Dramburg and Neustettin districts , Greifswald, 1957
  • Xanten in Roman times , Th. Gesthuysen, Xanten 1960
  • Kaster , Bedburg / Erft, 1964
  • Archaeological finds and monuments of the Rhineland / Vol. 2. Bergheim district , 1969
  • The Franconian cemetery of Eick , Berlin, 1969
  • The excavations on the Kirchberg in Morken, Bergheim district (Erft) , Düsseldorf: Rheinland-Verl., 1969
  • Germania Romana / 3. Roman life on Germanic soil , 1970
  • An early Roman burial ground on the church hill in Birten, Moers district. In: Rhenish excavations. 12. Rheinland-Verlag, Bonn 1973, pp. 24-83.
  • Early Towns in the Western Baltic Sea Region , Kiel, 1973
  • Settlement research on the Danish islands and in the western Baltic Sea region , Kiel, 1980
  • Motte and Donjon , Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne, 1981, ISBN 3-7927-0433-1
  • with Helmut Jäger :  single farm. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 7, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989, ISBN 3-11-011445-3 , pp. 47-51.
  • Rural house construction in Scandinavia from the 6th to 14th centuries , Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne, 1989, ISBN 3-7927-0989-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Hermann Hinz. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
  2. ^ Bernhard Hänsel and Karl W. Struve (eds.): Festschrift Hermann Hinz for the 65th birthday. (= Offa. Reports and communications on prehistory, early history and medieval archeology, 37/1980), Wachholtz, Neumünster 1981, ISBN 3-529-01237-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Hinz, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Wangerin
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2000
Place of death Bad Krozingen