Amandus Haase

Robert Amandus Haase (born October 27, 1886 in Zwickau , Saxony , † February 18, 1947 in the special camp Jamlitz ) was a German Saxon prehistory researcher .

Life

Haase's parents came from Crottendorf , but the boy was born in Zwickau , where his parents lived for some time before they moved to Plauen . Haase learned the craft of blacksmithing in Plauen . On his wandering years he stayed in southern Germany, where he witnessed the excavations of pile dwellings .

Back in Plauen, he joined the Geological Association of Vogtland founded by Ernst Weise in 1920 . When investigations began near the Reichsautobahn route 20 (today's A 72 ) near Taltitz in 1936 , he and Dr. Ernst Pietsch ceramics from the Bronze Age . In 1937 he opened three burial mounds on the crows Leite, a hill near Plauen Chrieschwitz . With this find the proof was provided that already 1200 years BC. BC people settled in the Vogtland . He found further burials in Reissig , Pöhl and other places. Until 1939, Haase earned his living as chief sergeant in the police force, before he switched to the Plauen district museum as a conservator. His service as police chief and his membership in the NSDAP from 1943 to 1945 was his undoing.

On August 8, 1945 Haase was arrested and the NKVD - special camp Jamlitz interned (Southeast Brandenburg). Amandus Haase was among the at least 3,380 prisoners whose death was confirmed by the Russian authorities. He was buried in a mass grave south of the camp on February 18, 1947.

Haase's particular merit was to have laid the foundation for systematic research into prehistory in the Vogtland .

Works

• A. Haase: Bronze Age barrows in the Vogtland. In: Saxony's prehistory. Yearbook for local prehistory and early history. Volume 2, Leipzig 1938, pp. 52-54
• Amandus Haase: The Voigtsberger "Schanz" - historical ground. In: The narrator on the Elster. Local history sheets for the upper Vogtland. Oelsnitz 1939, p. 51
• Amandus Haase: The prehistoric man in the Vogtland. In: Vogtland house calendar for the year 1941. Wieprecht, Plauen 1941 [?], Pp. 37–38
• A. Haase, Plauen: A Bronze Age hillside settlement on the Kulm near Zwoschwitz, Kr. Plauen. In: Saxony's prehistory. Yearbook for local prehistory and early history. Volume 5, Leipzig 1941, pp. 70-72

literature

• Gabriel Buchner: Death in the NKVD camp . In: Andreas Krone (Ed.): Historikus Vogtland . Geschichtsmagazin, Toberitz, (1) 2007, pp. 16-18.
• Sarah Enders: The settlement pits of Taltitz Dobenck "Hoher Stein". An old excavation under A. Haase. Bachelor thesis, University of Jena, 2013