Detlev Ellmers

Detlev Ellmers (born March 12, 1938 in Vegesack ) is a German prehistorian and art historian. His specialty is ship archeology.

biography

Ellmers grew up near Bremen in Osterholz-Scharmbeck and Mahndorf . From 1957 he studied at the University of Tübingen , the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Kiel German , Prehistory and Early History and Art History . In 1968 he was awarded a doctorate in Kiel with a thesis on early medieval merchant shipping in Central and Northern Europe. phil. PhD. He was one of three founding directors of the German Maritime Museum (DSM) in Bremerhaven . For 31 years - until 2002 - he was Managing Director at the top of the DSM, played a key role in building it up and ensured its international scientific establishment. In 2009 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Works

• as editor: sailing ships. Old-time model that folds out. Designed by Ron van der Meer. Ill. By Borje Svensson. Text by Alan McGowan. Carlsen, Reinbek 1984; Carlsen, Hamburg 1992, 2nd, revised. Ed .; ISBN 3-551-25307-2
• as co-author: Die Elmer. Etymologies - genealogies. M. Ellmer, Allmersbach im Tal 1990
• Maritime silver in the industrial age. Highlights in everyday shipping. Exhibition catalog. Hamburg Kabel, 1989; ISBN 3-8225-0110-7 and ISBN 978-3-86927-203-0 (Oceanum-Verlag)
• Early medieval merchant shipping in Central and Northern Europe. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1984, 2nd ed .; ISBN 3-529-01128-2 (also: Kiel, University, dissertation, 1971 udT: Ellmers, Detlev: Studies on early medieval merchant shipping in the North and Baltic Seas )
• as co-author: The Hanse-Kogge from 1380. Förderverein Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven 1982
• with Kurt Böhner and Konrad Weidemann : The early Middle Ages. In: Guide through the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz. Vol. 1. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz a. Rh. 1970; Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 1980 (2nd, slightly changed edition).
• as co-author: German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven. Westermann, Braunschweig 1980, 3rd edition.

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (2009)
• Senate Medal for Art and Science of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (2014)
• Medal of Merit of the City of Bremerhaven (2016)

Web links

• Literature by and about Detlev Ellmers in the catalog of the German National Library
• Erik Hoops: Detlev Ellmers. Publications 1965–2002 (PDF file; 140 kB)
• Detlev Ellmers. A life under the sign of shipping history (PDF file; 83 kB)
• A medieval ship from the Rhine. By Detlev Ellmers and Renate Pirling

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The captain disembarks. In: idw , Info No. 06/02 of March 26, 2002, accessed on September 22, 2019.
2. ↑ Mayor Böhrnsen awards the Federal Cross of Merit to Prof. Dr. Detlev Ellmers. Communication from the press office of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, March 20, 2009, accessed on September 22, 2019.
3. ↑ Wigbert Gerling: Honor for museum director. Senate medal to Detlev Ellmers. In: Weserkurier , November 22, 2013, accessed on September 22, 2019.
4. ^ Message from the press office of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from April 25, 2014.