Erika Trautmann-Nehring

Erika Frieda Charlotte Trautmann-Nehring (née Nehring; born April 15, 1897 in Osterwick, Kr.Konitz , † December 29, 1968 in Münster ) was a German archaeologist and illustrator who, together with Franz Altheim, was responsible for researching the rock carvings of the Val Camonica became known in Italy.

Life

Erika Nehring grew up in a wealthy family in West Prussia , which included many military personnel and academics . Her father Arthur Nehring (1861-1931) owned a small estate near Osterwick. Erika was the second youngest of seven children, one cousin was General Walther Nehring . One of her ancestors, Johann Nehring , was a famous Brandenburg architect in the 17th century. After the transfer to Poland in 1918, the parental goods were confiscated, the mother died at the end of 1918, Erika left West Prussia with her father and siblings.

She moved to Berlin and learned to work as an illustrator in the Lettehaus and at the Berlin University of the Arts , where she experienced the roaring twenties . In 1925 she married the wealthy engineer Bernhard Trautmann (* 1900) and moved with him to Frankfurt am Main . In 1933, in search of creative activity, she began to work at the Research Institute for Cultural Morphology , which Leo Frobenius headed in Frankfurt am Main. In 1934 she copied wall paintings in Spain and France on his behalf . While working in Val Camonica in 1936, she met the classical philologist Franz Altheim, who taught at the Goethe University in Frankfurt . Both became a couple and published works on ancient history, runes and the Indo-European migrations. She was divorced from her husband in October 1937. She had the essay published with Altheim forwarded to Himmler through her friend Hermann Göring .

Altheim and Trautmann joined Heinrich Himmler's ancestral legacy and received funding for their research in Val Camonica, Romania and Croatia. After further trips to Serbia, Turkey and Greece, the researcher couple moved to Damascus to learn something new about the struggles of the Indo-European peoples with Semitic tribes on the former Roman eastern border. In Iraq, through the mediation of Ambassador Fritz Grobba , they met with researchers and visited Parthian and Persian ruins near Baghdad. The Ahnenerbe supported this trip with 6,800 RM, which came from the coffers of the personal staff of the RF-SS. At the same time, they fulfilled orders for the SD by preparing reports on Iraq and Iran on behalf of Wolfram Sievers , which Himmler also submitted were.

After 1945 her work for the SS-Ahnenerbe closed her - unlike Altheim or Herbert Jankuhn - from any further academic career. But she continued to work as an illustrator and author of many academic books.

Fonts

with Franz Altheim: From the origin of the runes , 1938 Ahnenerbe
with Franz Altheim: The Soldier Emperors . 1939 Klostermann, Frankfurt / Main https://archive.org/details/DieSoldatenkaiser
with Franz Altheim: Italy and the Doric migration , 1940 Pantheon, Amsterdam http://www.worldcat.org/title/italien-und-die-dorische-wanderung/oclc/503893702
with Franz Altheim: Italy and Rome , 1941 Pantheon Akademische Verlagsanstalt http://www.worldcat.org/title/italien-und-rom/oclc/1438703
with Franz Altheim: Cimbres and Runes: Investigations on the question of the origin of the runes , 1942 Ahnenerbe-Stiftung Verlag, Berlin http://www.worldcat.org/title/kimbern-und-runen-untersuchungen-zur-ursprungsfrage-der-runen/oclc / 20679268
with Franz Altheim: The Crisis of the Old World in the 3rd Century AD and their causes , 1943, Ahnenerbe-Stiftung, Berlin-Dahlem https://archive.org/details/AltheimFranzDieKriseDerAltenWelt11943
with Franz Altheim: Götter und Kaiser , 1943 Ahnenerbe-Stiftung, Berlin-Dahlem http://www.worldcat.org/title/gotter-und-kaiser/oclc/79042936
The rock art of the Val Camonica. Berlin, Transmare-Photo, 1947 (2 volumes)
with Franz Altheim: World History of Asia in the Greek Age , 1947 M. Niemeyer, Halle
with Franz Altheim: Spätantike und Christianentum , 1951 https://books.google.com/books?id=HWvRAAAAMAAJ
with Franz Altheim: Attila and the Huns , 1951 Verl. f. Art and Science, Baden-Baden
with Franz Altheim and Robert Göbl : An Asian State: Feudalism among the Sasanids and their neighbors . First volume, 1954 Limes, Wiesbaden
with Franz Altheim, Hans-Wilhelm Haussig , Ruth Altheim-Stiehl : Finanzgeschichte der Spätantike , 1957 Klostermann, Frankfurt / Main

literature

Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1950; 1966; 1970 (Nekrolog).
Who is who? The German Who's Who . Vol. 12, 1955.
Reena Perschke: The rock art researcher Erika Trautmann-Nehring (1897-1968), in: Sonja Häder / Ulrich Wiegmann (ed.): At the side of learned men. Women between emancipation and tradition , Klinkhardt 2017, pp. 225–269 ISBN 978-3-7815-2205-3 .
Reena Perschke: National-Socialist Researchers in Val Camonica - A short biography of the petroglyph draftswoman Erika Trautmann-Nehring (1897-1968) , Bollettino del Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici (BCSP), vol. 43, 2019, pp. 5-31.

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Single receipts

↑ Poznan Gender Book, Vol. 4. Ed. Helmut Strehlau ( German Gender Book , Vol. 140). Starke, Limburg ad Lahn 1965, p. 186 f.
↑ Heather Pringle: The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust . Hachette Books, 2006, ISBN 9781401383862 .
↑ Reena Perschke: /Women_pioneers_in_Rock_Art_Research_Mary_E._Boyle_Erika_Trautmann_and_Vera_C._C._Collum?ends_sutd_reg_path=true Women pioneers in Rock Art Research: Mary E. Boyle, Erika Trautmann and Vera CC Collum. . Retrieved June 27, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Trautmann-Nehring, Erika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nehring, Erika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German archaeologist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	April 15, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osterwick, Kr. Konitz
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 1968
Place of death	Muenster

[1] Poznan Gender Book, Vol. 4. Ed. Helmut Strehlau ( German Gender Book , Vol. 140). Starke, Limburg ad Lahn 1965, p. 186 f.

[2] Heather Pringle: The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust . Hachette Books, 2006, ISBN 9781401383862 .

[Perschke-3] Reena Perschke: /Women_pioneers_in_Rock_Art_Research_Mary_E._Boyle_Erika_Trautmann_and_Vera_C._C._Collum?ends_sutd_reg_path=true Women pioneers in Rock Art Research: Mary E. Boyle, Erika Trautmann and Vera CC Collum. . Retrieved June 27, 2018.