Eduard Neuffer

Eduard Neuffer (born September 17, 1900 in Besigheim , † August 29, 1954 in Bonn ) was a German archaeologist .

After attending the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and brief military service in 1918/19, Neuffer, son of a district judge, studied philosophy and natural sciences from 1919 in Heidelberg , Tübingen and Gießen , then from 1923 classical archeology . In March 1929 he received his doctorate in Giessen with Richard Delbrueck and was then assistant in Marburg with Paul Jacobsthal . In 1930/31 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . From 1931 he worked at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn under Franz Oelmann , first as a research assistant, from 1935 as assistant director, from 1939 as head of department. At the end of 1939 Neuffer was drafted into the Wehrmacht . From 1940 to 1942 he headed the Prehistory and Archeology Department at the Art Protection Department in Paris under Franz Wolff-Metternich . In 1942 he was made indispensable and worked for the Archaeological Institute of the German Reich , the circular walls in the occupied West areas. He was back in the Wehrmacht in March 1944 and returned to the Museum in Bonn in 1945, where he was director from 1949 until his untimely death in 1954.

His sons are the administrative lawyer Martin Neuffer (1924–2004) and the prehistorian Eduard M. Neuffer (1931–2018).

Publications (selection)

• The Alexander d. Size Giessen 1929 (= dissertation) ( full text ).

literature

• Franz Oelmann: In memory of Eduard Neuffer. In: Bonner Jahrbücher 155, 195–56, pp. 1–5.