Erich Claßen

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Erich Claßen (* 1973 in Birkesdorf , City of Düren ) is a German state archaeologist , conservator , ground monument curator and prehistoric archaeologist . Claßen is a specialist in the Neolithic ; His research fields include landscape archeology and the social history of the Stone Age periods in Central Europe .

Scientific career

Claßen comes from the North Eifel and grew up in Heimbach (Eifel) district of Vlatten ( Düren district ). He attended grammar school in Zülpich , then studied prehistory and early history, classical and Roman provincial archeology as well as geology / paleontology at the University of Cologne . There he received his doctorate in prehistory and early history in 2007 with a dissertation supervised by Jürgen Richter on the subject of ceramic ribbon settlements near Königshoven . Here he dealt with a settlement group of the first farmers in Central Europe near Königshoven in the Garzweiler opencast mine . This study was awarded the Archeology Prize of the Foundation for the Promotion of Archeology in the Rhenish Lignite District in 2007 and the Prize of the Offermann-Hergarten Foundation at the University of Cologne in 2012.

Since 2005, Claßen has been involved in the official conservation of monuments, initially as part of a two-year traineeship at the State Office for Monument Conservation and Archeology in Halle (Saale) . In 2007 he took up a position at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation , where he was the head of the soil monument preservation department in Ingolstadt and, at the same time, deputy head of the department and advisor for prehistory for the administrative region of Upper Bavaria . In the course of his three years of activity, he oversaw around 200 projects.

In 2010 he moved to the Archaeological State Collection in Munich , where he was head of the prehistory department and IT officer. In 2013 he returned to his home in the Rhineland and took over the management of the Overath branch of the LVR Office for Ground Monument Preservation . Here he was responsible for numerous excavations and initiated archaeological research projects in the region. A particular concern of his was the training and advancement of the next generation of archaeologists. Among other things, it is thanks to him that he resumed training in the field of excavation technology .

Since the beginning of 2019, Claßen has officially headed the LVR Office for Land Monument Preservation in the Rhineland at the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR), succeeding Jürgen Kunow as the state archaeologist of the Rhineland, the Rhenish part of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Claßen took part in numerous excavations and research projects at home and abroad (Germany, Portugal, France, Namibia and Egypt), including some under his leadership.

Claßen has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Foundation for the Promotion of Archeology in the Rhenish Lignite District since January 1, 2019 .

Volunteering

From 2005 to 2008 Erich Claßen was the spokesman for the Neolithic Working Group of the German Associations for Antiquity Research and from 2011 to 2013 deputy chairman of the German Society for Prehistory and Early History (DGUF).

Publications

  • extensive list of publications
  • Settlements of ribbon ceramics near Königshoven (Rhenish excavations, volume 64). With a contribution by Ursula Tegtmeier, von Zabern, Darmstadt 2012, Zugl. University of Cologne Dissertation 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-4349-7 .
  • Edited with Thomas Doppler and Britta Ramminger: Family - Relatives - Social Structures. social archaeological research on Neolithic findings. World and Earth, Kerpen 2010, ISBN 978-3-938078-07-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German National Library catalog entry Erich Claßen , accessed on August 17, 2019
  2. ↑ LVR Kultur press release from December 17, 2019: A heavyweight in archeology is leaving the LVR , accessed on August 17, 2019
  3. ^ LVR Office for Ground Monument Preservation in the Rhineland Press: Erich Claßen new state archaeologist. Change at the top of the Rhenish heritage preservation , accessed on August 17, 2019
  4. ^ AG Neolithic - history of the working group. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
  5. ^ Board members of the DGUF since 1969. German Society for Pre- and Early History eV, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ zotero.org , accessed August 17, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Claßen, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German state archaeologist, conservator, ground monument curator and prehistoric archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH District Birkesdorf , Düren