Alexander Langsdorff

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Alexander Langsdorff at a lecture (1935)

Alexander Langsdorff (born December 14, 1898 in Alsfeld , Upper Hesse , † March 15, 1946 in Eutin ) was a German archaeologist and SS leader.

biography

Langsdorff studied prehistory and early history, archeology and German in Marburg . He received his doctorate in 1929 with the work Die Grabfunde mit Bronzeeschnabelkannen in Marburg. Langsdorff was a participant in various archaeological expeditions to Egypt and Iran from 1929 to 1933 . In 1932 he led the excavations of Tall-i Bakun near the ancient Persepolis with Donald McCown .

Langsdorff took part in the 1923 Hitler putsch . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and the SS in the same year in which he achieved the rank of SS-Standartenführer in 1944 . From February 1944 to May 1945 he was head of the “ Art Protection ” department in Italy , where he was in charge of the transfer of works of art from Florence to Sand in Taufers (South Tyrol). Langsdorff died on March 15, 1946 in the district hospital in Eutin.

Alexander Langsdorff married for the first time in 1931 and divorced on October 2, 1940. On January 7, 1941, he married Marie-Luise Schneidewind, née Stockmann (October 10, 1917 - August 22, 1984). With her he had two children, the son Peter Desiré and his daughter Mareile Langsdorff Claus. Hans Langsdorff , the commander of the ironclad Admiral Graf Spee , was his cousin.

Publications

  • with Paul Jacobsthal : The bronze beak jugs. A contribution to the history of pre-Roman imports north of the Alps. Keller, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1929.
  • with Donald E. McCown: Tall-i Bakun A. Season of 1932 (= University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publication. Vol. 59). University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL 1942.

literature

  • Michael H. Kater : The "Ahnenerbe" of the SS. 1935–1945. A contribution to the cultural policy of the Third Reich. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-421-01623-2 .
  • Uta Halle : “The Externsteine ​​are Germanic until further notice!” Prehistoric archeology in the Third Reich (= special publications of the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land of Lippe. Vol. 68). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-89534-446-X (also: Berlin, Humboldt University, habilitation paper, 2001).
  • Christian Fuhrmeister, Johannes Griebel, Stephan Klingen, Ralf Peters (eds.): Art historians in the war. German Military Art Protection in Italy 1943–1945 (= publications of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. Vol. 29). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20804-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= Fischer 16048). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 357.
  2. ↑ The art treasures from Florence never left the Italian territory. On May 13, 1945, the American art protection group, accompanied by the Florentine monument protector Prof. Rossi, arrived in Sand in Taufers, took over the art treasures and later transported them back to Florence. See: Christian Fuhrmeister, Johannes Griebel, Stephan Klingen, Ralf Peters (eds.): Art historians in the war. German Military Art Protection in Italy 1943–1945 (= publications of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. Vol. 29). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20804-2 . And: Andrea Carlesi: La protezione del patrimonio artistica italiano nella RSI (1943–1945). Greco & Greco, Milano 2012, ISBN 978-88-7980-544-5 .
  3. ↑ According to death certificate no. 80 of the Eutin registry office from March 18, 1946, Langsdorff died on March 15, 1946 at 11:10 p.m. in Eutin in the district hospital. The cause of death is stated in this death certificate: "Paratyphus, rheumatism, sciatica, pneumonia, acute heart failure".
  4. ↑ a b See also: forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=42959: "My name is Mareile Langsdorff Claus, I am the daughter of Prof. Dr. Alexander Langsdorff, and I want to correct some inputs of Mike. My father married for the first time 1931 and divorced on October 2, 1940. He remarried on January 7, 1941, Mrs. Marie-Luise Schneidewind, born Stockmann (10.10.1917-22.08.1984). It is correct that they had a son, Peter Desiré, but also a daughter (me), born October 11, 1943 in Berlin. He was posted from January 15 to June 24, 1941, in Paris. My father was fluent not only in French and English, but also in Italian. My father was in charge of the protection of art in Italy from February 1944 until April 30, 1945, according to the last entry of his diary. He died: 15.03.1946 (and not on 10.03.1946) in the hospital in Eutin of a pulmonary embolism (and not at home, and he did not kill himself). The commander of the "Graf Spee", Hans Langsdorff, was his cousin. " Mareile Langsdorff Claus
personal data
SURNAME Langsdorff, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Alsfeld , Upper Hesse
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1946
Place of death Eutin