Eduard Beninger

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Eduard Beninger (born February 25, 1897 in Vienna , † November 28, 1963 in Vienna) was an Austrian researcher in prehistory and early history .

Life

Eduard Beninger enrolled in April 1918 at the University of Vienna the subjects Prehistory , Sanskrit , Indo-European and German Studies at Oswald Menghin , Josef Bayer (archaeologist) , Paul Kretschmer and Rudolf Much . He received his doctorate in January 1923 with the dissertation The Germanic Question in the Literature of Prehistoric Science . Subsequently he worked at the prehistoric department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, from March 17, 1938 as head of this department. Beninger completed his habilitation on May 10, 1939 with the habilitation thesis The Germanic soil finds in Slovakia and was appointed lecturer at the University of Vienna and director of the prehistoric department at the Natural History Museum Vienna on October 9, 1940 . During the Second World War he became the head of the NSDAP's cultural office in Slovakia and the local commander of Michalovze . After the end of the Second World War he lost his position as museum director and was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for "violating human dignity".

Beninger carried out numerous excavations in Lower and Upper Austria (including in Neuruppersdorf , Poysdorf and Hainburg- Teichfeld) and wrote about 90 publications, some of them very extensive. His main interest was the Germanic question. There are numerous fundamental works on this. He was way ahead of his time in neolith research and his results are only being appreciated today.

With his expert advice, Beninger supported numerous local researchers ( Othmar Skala , Franz Xaver Kießling , Josef Höbarth ) and local museums. Among other things, he created the inventories of the museums in Melk , Horn , Hollabrunn , Langenlois and Retz . He was buried at the Hietzingen cemetery .

Fonts

  • The Visigothic-Alanian train to Central Europe (= Mannus Library. 51, ISSN  0720-7158 ). Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1931.
  • On neolith research in Lower Austria. In: Viennese prehistoric magazine. 20, 1933, ISSN  0258-3526 , pp. 1-5.
  • with Hans Freising: The Germanic soil finds in Moravia (= Institute for Sudeten German Local Research, Prehistory Department. 4, ZDB -ID 918857-5 ). Institute for Sudeten German Homeland Research - Prehistory Department, Reichenberg 1933.
  • The Germanic era in Lower Austria from Marbod to the Babenbergs. Results of soil research. Stephan, Vienna 1934.
  • The Germanic soil finds in Slovakia (= Institute for Sudeten German Local Research, Prehistoric Department. 8). Kraus, Reichenberg et al. 1937, (At the same time: Vienna, University, habilitation paper, 1939).
  • The Teutons in Burgenland. In: Germanic heritage. Vol. 7, No. 7/8, 1942, ZDB -ID 216749-9 , pp. 104-114.
  • The urn graves of Wieselsfeld, Lower Austria. In: Archaeologia Austriaca. 30, 1961, ISSN  0003-8008 , pp. 39-62.
  • The Paura on the Traun. A rural settlement of the pile dwelling culture and its traffic situation in prehistoric and early historical times (= series of publications of the Upper Austrian regional building directorate. 17, ZDB -ID 406656-X ). OÖ-Landesverlag, Wels 1961.
  • Tasks of a local museum. On the occasion of the opening of the Lang-Enzersdorf local history museum. In: Around the Bisamberg. 2, 1961, ZDB -ID 1256030-3 , pp. 14-32.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 40.
  2. ↑ Mitchell G. Ash , Wolfram Nieß, Ramon Pils (eds.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna. V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-568-2 , p. 386, limited preview in the Google book search.
  3. ^ Eduard Beninger grave site , Vienna, Hietzinger Friedhof, Group 17, Row 6, No. 247.
personal data
SURNAME Beninger, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian researcher of prehistory and early history
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1963
Place of death Vienna