Werner Radig

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Werner Radig (born August 29, 1903 in Wurzen , † August 12, 1985 in East Berlin ) was a German archaeologist and folklorist . His main research area was house research.

Life

After his doctorate as Dr. phil. Radig occurred in 1933 after the " seizure " of the Nazis of the SA , the Nazi Teachers' Association and the Nazi Dozentenbund at. In 1936 he became a professor at the Elbing College for Teacher Training . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . In 1941 he became head of the Prehistory Section at the Institute for German Eastern Labor in occupied Kraków , a " high school " funded by Alfred Rosenberg and the NSDAP . His writings Otto the Great. Explanatory booklet for a mural by Franz Roubal (1938) and German heritage in the Vistula region (1941) were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .

From 1952 Radig was a professor for prehistory and early history on the scientific advisory board for local research of the Institute for Geography and Geoecology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and was co-author of the series Values ​​of our Homeland . In 1978 he was awarded the GDR Patriotic Order of Merit . He was a member of the Vogtland Antiquities Research Association in Hohenleuben .

literature

  • Achim Leube : The prehistorian Werner Radig (1903–1985). A contribution to German prehistory through the ages. In: Ethnographisch- Archäologische Zeitschrift 45, 2004, ISSN  0012-7477 , pp. 83–129.
  • Petra Schweizer-Strobel and Michael Strobel: Werner Radig (1903–1985). A prehistorian with two types of dictatorship . In: Hans-Peter Wotzka (Hrsg.): Grundlegungen. Contributions to European and African archeology. Festschrift for Manfred KH Eggert. Francke, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-7720-8187-8 , pp. 65-80.
  • Michael Strobel: Werner Radig (1903–1985). A prehistorian in three political systems. In: Work and research reports on the Saxon soil monument maintenance 47, 2005, ISSN  0402-7817 , pp. 283-320.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 471.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-q.html
personal data
SURNAME Radig, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radig, Max Werner (full name); Radig-Elbing, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist, folklorist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Spice up
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1985
Place of death East Berlin