Emma Pressmar

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Emma Karoline Pressmar (born May 13, 1909 in Ulm ; † January 9, 2000 there ) was a German prehistorian .

Life

Emma Pressmar studied natural sciences in Tübingen , Berlin and Munich . There she received her doctorate in 1937 under Ferdinand Birkner with a thesis on the prehistory and early history of the Ulmer Winkel. This was a woman's first dissertation on a prehistoric topic in Bavaria.

In the Second World War she entered the school service and worked as a high school teacher in Ulm until 1974. In addition, she made important contributions to the prehistory of the Neu-Ulm hinterland through excavations as an honorary director of the prehistoric collection of the Neu-Ulm local history museum and district home nurse (1967-1984) of the Neu-Ulm district . In 1975/76 she was able to do an emergency excavation at the Elchinger Autobahnkreuz u. a. prove a pottery kiln from the Urnfield period.

Emma Pressmar donated part of her extensive ring collection to the Prehistoric Collection in Munich , and in 1991 she donated 250 rings from 38 countries to the Ulm Museum . In addition to various other awards, Emma Pressmar received the Bavarian Order of Merit in 1986 . As a result of a foundation to India , a kindergarten in Bangalore bears her name.

Publications (selection)

  • Prehistory and early history of the Ulmer Winkel on a pedological basis. Munich, Oldenbourg publishing house, 1938 (dissertation)
  • Elchinger Cross. District of Neu-Ulm, settlement excavation with urnfield-era pottery kiln. Publisher Michael Laßleben, 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5119-9
  • Indian rings. Frankfurt / M., Insel Verlag, 1982, ISBN 3-458-14031-X
  • Rings talk: The Emma Pressmar collection in the Ulm Museum. Ulm, Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1991, ISBN 3-88294-171-5

literature

  • Gerhard Kaiser: I throw the seed to all winds. The educator and prehistorian Emma Pressmar . Ulm, Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994, ISBN 3-88294-206-1
  • Gisela Zahlhaas: Dr. Emma Pressmar on her 90th birthday: a greeting to the jubilarian. In: Messages from the Friends of the Bavarian Pre- and Early History / Friends of the Bavarian Pre- and Early History. Munich. 90 (1999), pp. 1-5
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 320 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of archeology in the Neu-Ulm district
personal data
SURNAME Pressmar, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pressmar, Emma Karoline (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric woman
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2000
Place of death Ulm