Axel Friederichs

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Axel Friederichs (* 1961 ) is a German prehistorian and archaeologist who has headed the Osnabrück City and District Archeology since 2017 .

Career

Axel Friederichs already took part in excavations as a schoolboy and had early contact with the Osnabrück city and district archaeologist Wolfgang Schlueter . In the 1980s, Friederichs studied prehistory and early history at the University of Göttingen , which he completed with a Magister Artium on two urn cemeteries from the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age in the Osnabrück districts of Düstrup and Galgenesch. He then worked on numerous excavations at home and abroad.

From 1990 onwards, Friederichs was a trainee and lecturer at the Westphalian Museum of Archeology / Office for Monument Preservation in Münster for over two years . Then he briefly took part in the project " Kalkriese - Romans in the Osnabrücker Land ". In 1993, as a member of the State Office for Archeology in Saxony, he headed a major excavation in Leipzig . After his return to Lower Saxony, Friederichs carried out numerous excavations and projects in the Osnabrück region and in the former Weser-Ems administrative region . He also supported the Osnabrück City and District Archeology, which is responsible for the city of Osnabrück and the Osnabrück district. In 2003, when Bodo Zehm the management of this department was transferred, he appointed Axel Friederichs his deputy, of the activities over the years in part-time work exercised. After Zehm's retirement in 2017, Friederichs became his successor.

Axel Friederichs is a member of the board of directors of the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony as treasurer. He lives in Bramsche .

Writings and contributions (selection)

  • The Young Bronze and Early Iron Age burial ground “Bornhügel” in Osnabrück-Gretesch (approx. 1100–700 and 700–500 BC). Museum of Cultural History - Archaeological Department, Osnabrück 1988.
  • Düstrup and Galgenesch, two grave fields from the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age in the urban area of ​​Osnabrück (= The Urn Cemeteries in Lower Saxony. Vol. 15). Lax, Hildesheim, 1992, ISBN 3-7848-1115-9 (at the same time: Göttingen, Universität, Master's thesis, 1989).
  • The pre-Roman metal ages. In: Friedrich-Wilhelm Wulf , Wolfgang Schlüter : Archaeological monuments in the independent city and in the district of Osnabrück (= material booklets on the prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony. Series B: Inventories. 2). Hahn, Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-7752-5661-X , pp. 30-61.
  • A plaster for the dead. In: Archeology in Lower Saxony . 4, 2001, pp. 78-80.
  • Archeology and construction. in: Heimat-Jahrbuch Osnabrücker Land 2002, ISSN  1618-5757 , pp. 81–93
  • Under the ash ... all sorts of graves. In: Archeology in Lower Saxony. 7, 2004, pp. 73-76.

literature

  • Judith Franzen, Axel Friederichs: change of office. Axel Friederichs follows Bodo Zehm as city and district archaeologist in: Varus-Kurier No. 19, 2017, pp. 31–33 ( online , pdf)

Web links

Commons : Axel Friederichs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bramsche already settled rather than assumed? in NOZ from August 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Friederichs, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961