Adolf Gauert

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Adolf Gauert (born March 31, 1911 in Groß Twülpstedt ; † July 17, 1989 there ) was a German historian . He was one of the pioneers in Palatinate research .

Live and act

The son of a master blacksmith passed the final exam at a Braunschweig high school. He first studied history, English and Romance studies at the University of Göttingen , then in Munich and Besançon . He returned to Göttingen and, inspired by Percy Ernst Schramm, began to deal with the English royal idea in the Middle Ages as a dissertation topic. Gauert had been with the Wehrmacht since November 1939 . As an infantryman under Colonel Friedrich Hoßbach , he belonged to the Göttingen 82nd Infantry Regiment. In 1940 he took part in the campaign in the West and from the summer of 1941 in the war against the Soviet Union . During a so-called study leave granted by the Wehrmacht, he was given the subject of Anglo-Saxon royalty in 1941 . PhD change and essence . In the spring of 1942 he was promoted to the military. A little later he was seriously wounded. After a long period of hospital service, he was no longer fully fit for front duty in occupied France in 1943. In a serious accident as a motorcyclist, he broke his skull and was transferred to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia .

After a short American captivity, he was able to return to his place of birth in the summer of 1945. Jobless and penniless, Gauert tried to find a place in science. In 1948 he received a scholarship from the DFG . He then became a freelancer at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and edited the royalty of Adolf von Nassau for the yearbooks of German history . From this occupation some contributions for the first volume of the New German Biography emerged. Under the influence of Schramm he dealt with the symbols of rule. With his college friend Wilhelm Berges , he published an article about the iron “standard” and the stone “scepter” from the grave of an Anglo-Saxon king near Sutton Hoo for Schramm's work Herrschaftszeichen und Staatssymbolik . He published further research on the subject of his rulership signs and symbols in the early Middle Ages on the scepter of Duke Tassilos III. (1962), about Norwegian royal seats in the Viking Age or the ring of Queen Arnegundis . In addition to history, archeology was also taken into account in these works.

In 1956 he was hired by Hermann Heimpel as a scientific consultant for the newly founded Max Planck Institute for History . At that time, Walter Schlesinger and Wilhelm Berges presented a long-term research project with the systematic research of the German royal palaces at the Ulmer Historikertag in 1956. Heimpel took up this research project and put Gauert in charge of the newly founded project on Palatinate research. In his research, Gauert mainly concentrated on the Saxon Palatinate of the Ottonian period . The Palatinate Grone formed a focus . By Herbert Jankuhn he was introduced into the excavation techniques. With him he carried out intensive settlement and archaeological research on the history of a royal palace. Gauert published regular reports on the progress of these excavations. He also dealt in detail with the excavation findings of the Werla Palatinate . With his interpretation of the excavation findings, he provided a new picture of the appearance and design of the palace buildings there in his article published in 1979. In 1965 he presented a fundamental treatise on the False Problem. The contribution had pioneering importance for further research on the Falzes. In it he made important research observations on the change in Palatinate architecture from the early to the high Middle Ages. He wrote the article on the royal palaces for the concise dictionary of German legal history and the article curtis for the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde .

Fonts

  • Anglo-Saxon royalty in change and essence. Groß-Twülpstedt / Braunschweig 1941.

literature

  • Lutz Fenske: In memory of Adolf Gauert. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch 71, 1990, pp. 153–157 ( online ).
  • Josef Fleckenstein : Obituary for Adolf Gauert. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 126, 1990, pp. 301–304 ( online ).
  • Walter Jansen: Adolf Gauert 1911–1989. In: Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters 18, 1990, pp. 5-6.
  • Thomas Zotz : Adolf Gauert in memory. In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 38, 1990, pp. 241–243.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See, among others, Adolf von Nassau. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 74 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Wilhelm Berges, Adolf Gauert: The iron "standard" and the stone "scepter" from the grave of an Anglo-Saxon king near Sutton Hoo (around 650–660). In: Rulership and State Symbolism. Contributions to its history from the third to the sixteenth centuries. Vol. 1, Stuttgart 1954, pp. 238-280.
  3. ^ Adolf Gauert: The scepter of Duke Tassilos III. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 18, 1962, pp. 214–233 ( online ).
  4. ^ Adolf Gauert: Norwegian royal seats of the Viking Age. In: Martin Claus, Werner Haarnagel, Klaus Raddatz (eds.): Studies on European prehistory and early history. Neumünster 1968, pp. 289-296.
  5. ^ Adolf Gauert: The ring of Queen Arnegundis from Saint-Denis. In: Festschrift for Hermann Heimpel on his 70th birthday on September 1, 1971. Volume 3, Göttingen 1972, pp. 328–347.
  6. ↑ Werner Rösener : The Max Planck Institute for History (1956-2006). Fifty years of historical research. Göttingen 2014, p. 84.
  7. ^ Adolf Gauert: The Palatium of the Palatinate Werla - archaeological evidence and written records. In: Deutsche Königspfalzen 3, Göttingen 1979, pp. 263–277.
  8. ^ Adolf Gauert: On the structure and topography of the royal palaces. In: German royal palaces. 2, Göttingen 1965, pp. 1-60.
  9. ^ Josef Fleckenstein : Obituary for Adolf Gauert. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 126, 1990, pp. 301–304, here: p. 303. ( online )
  10. ↑ Thomas Zotz: Preliminary remarks on the repertory of the German royal palaces. In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 118, 1982, pp. 177–203, here: p. 179 ( online )
  11. ^ Adolf Gauert: Königspfalzen. In: Concise Dictionary of German Legal History 2, Berlin 1978, Sp. 1044-1055.
  12. ^ Adolf Gauert: curtis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 5, pp. 105–112
personal data
SURNAME Gauert, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Twülpstedt
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1989
Place of death Groß Twülpstedt