Carl Rademacher

Urn excavated near Altenrath

Carl Rademacher (also: Karl Rademacher , * 3. August 1859 in Altenrath ( Wahner Heide ); † 29. January 1935 in Cologne ) was a self-taught , a well-known prehistory of the Lower Rhine and first director of the Cologne Museum of Prehistory and Early History .

Live and act

Carl Rademacher was born as the son of the teacher from Altenrath, Joseph Rademacher (teacher there 1841–1886). After attending the teachers' college in Siegburg, he got his first job in Mühleip and then in 1881 became a teacher, later rector, at the Zugweg middle school in Cologne's Südstadt district . Born in the Wahner Heide, he developed an early interest in the burial mounds in the heath areas on the right bank of the Rhine between Wahn and Schlebusch. His father had already discovered the “Hohe Schanze” burial mound field near Altenrath in 1841 and published it. Later father and two sons Carl and Erich worked together on further excavations.

Barrow in the Königsforst

Karl Rademacher: grave in Melaten cemetery

His investigations into burial mound fields in Rath , Dellbrück and Dünnwald attracted the attention of experts. When the Cologne Anthropological Society was founded in Cologne in 1903 (34 years after the first prehistoric society was founded in Berlin in 1869) , he became the first chairman. From 1904 onwards, as an anthropological society, the association set itself the task of promoting ethnology, anthropology and early history through collections and lectures. This was so successful that the private Prehistoric Museum , founded at the same time, had to be run under his honorary direction in 1906/7 as the municipal museum for prehistory and early history in the Bayenturm . In 1910 Rademacher wrote a guide for his museum: Guide through the municipal prehistoric museum in the Bayenturm in Cologne. Opened on July 29, 1907. By Rector C. Rademacher, Cöln, undated (1910) . The Philosophical Faculty of the just re-established University of Cologne (at that time still "Old University" in Claudiusstrasse) awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1927 because of his numerous publications on the early history of the Rhineland . Werner Buttler was his successor in 1931 . Rademacher was a member of the NSDAP as early as 1934 when he helped design an exhibition on the history of the local area in his home village .

In addition to numerous educational treatises and works on the prehistory of the Rhineland , Carl Rademacher also wrote novels , stories and plays .

His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 56).

Post fame

The city of Cologne named Rademacherweg at the Ostfriedhof in Dellbrück after him in the 1970s . In this cemetery, several unoccupied fields still indicate prehistoric barrows.

Works

• Hellenic gymnastics and German gymnastics in their cultural-historical development and moral-national significance , Magdeburg 1885
• Magdalenchen , Bielefeld 1890 (under the name Carl Montanus)
• The Germanic burial places on the Rhine between Sieg and Wupper ,
  • 1 (1893)
  • 2 (1894)
  • 3 (1895)
• The Divine Bride of Babylon , Bielefeld 1893
• Teachers and Folklore , Bielefeld 1893
• The Knüppelgeneral , Bielefeld 1894
• Malerfranz , Bielefeld 1894
• Roland von Ulroth, the Swedish captain , Bielefeld 1894
• Atonement , Bielefeld 1894
• On the Hallig , Bielefeld 1895
• By a child , Bielefeld 1895
• The secret of the Heideburg , Bielefeld 1895
• The treasure on the Eigelstein , Bielefeld 1895
• Saved from death , Bielefeld 1895
• In what direction and to what extent is youth education damaged by commercial and agricultural child labor? , Bielefeld 1897
• Minister of State D. Dr. Falk and the elementary school teachers , Bielefeld 1897
• "Der Thalburgherr" and "Der wilde Michel" , Bielefeld 1897
• Corporal punishment of school children , Bielefeld 1899
• Pictures from the history of the city of Cologne , Cologne 1900
• Education for self-employment through clear recognition - Pestalozzi's main principle , Bielefeld 1901
• Commercial, domestic and agricultural child labor in the Rhine Province , Bielefeld 1901
• When I was little , Cologne 1902
• Germanic Prehistory , Cologne 1902 (together with Theodor Scheve)
• From the time of the Great Migration , Gütersloh 1904
• From Germany's prehistoric times , Gütersloh 1904
• On Bethlehem's hallways , Paderborn 1907
• Guide to the Municipal Prehistoric Museum in Cöln , Cologne 1907
• Chronology of the Lower Rhine Hallstatt Period in the area between the Sieg and Wupper estuaries , Würzburg 1912
• Foundation and development of the Städt. Prehistoric Museum , Cologne 1913 (together with Erich Rademacher)
• New finds from the Prehistoric Museum of the City of Cologne , Cologne (together with Erich Rademacher)
  • 1 (1916)
  • 2 (1916)
• The prehistoric settlement of the heather terrace between the Rhine plain, Acher [= Agger] and Sülz, and in particular the settlement of the eastern edge during the Franconian period , Leipzig 1920
• Use of the municipal collections Museum of Prehistory and Early History by Schools in the Service of Local History Education , Cologne 1922
• Caesarius von Heisterbach , Cologne 1924
• Prehistory and early history of the city of Cologne , Cologne 1926
• Keywords for the Rhenish prehistory , Cologne 1928 (together with Erich Rademacher)
• Wodan - St. Michael - the German Michel , Cologne 1934

Editing

• Celebration hours, memorial book for German teachers; for the best of the Jütting monument , Bielefeld 1892

literature

• Ulrich S. Soenius, Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon . Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , pp. 433 .
• Klaus Dettmann: Publications by the museum director Karl Rademacher from Altenrath in Heimat und Geschichte, a magazine for members and friends of the Troisdorf home and history association , issue 33, 2004.
• Enno Stahl: Cologne Authors' Lexicon 1750 - 2000 , ed. from the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, Vol. 1. 1750–1900, Cologne, 2000, pp. 181–182.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Altenrather School archive link ( Memento from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed July 2010)
2. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia ( [1] ).
3. ↑ According to Museum Guide 1910, quoted in: Peter Gerlach: '' Von Jäger, Kinder und der Moderne. On M. Verworn '', Notes 8 - 10 Cologne 1998 Archive link ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ History of the Altenrath district on the website of the city of Troisdorf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed July 2010)  
5. ↑ Matthias Dederichs: '' Stories, sagas and poems from the Altenforster Heide ''  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed July 2010)  
6. ^ Troisdorf under the swastika, Aachen, Alano Verlag, 1986, chap. Altenrath THE ALTENRATH AND THE WAHNER HEIDE 1938 SHOOTING FIELD ( Memento from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed July 2010)