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Freidank Kuchenbuch (born January 11, 1910 in Stendal ; † October 30, 1942 on the Terek in the Caucasus) was a German prehistorian .

Freidank Kuchenbuch was a grandson of Franz Kuchenbuch (1812–1896) and son of Franz Kuchenbuch (1863–1944, called Franz Kuchenbuch III), a business council in Stendal . He was a local historian and ran the Altmark Museum in Stendal as a volunteer as curator from 1904 to 1944 .

After attending grammar school in Stendal until he graduated from high school in 1928, he first studied natural sciences in the summer semester of 1928 at the University of Munich , then prehistory, history, German studies, geography and folklore in Berlin and Halle and received his doctorate in July 1934 under Walther Schulz in Halle. In his dissertation, Kuchenbuch made the Lombards the bearers of a unified culture in the Altmark and adjacent East Hanover area of ​​the late Roman period. From November 10, 1934 to March 31, 1937 he was an assistant at the State Office for Prehistory of Upper Silesia in Ratibor . He then worked as an assistant at the State Institute for Folklore Studies in Halle an der Saale and in January 1938 became head of the Prehistory Department at the newly founded Institute for Local Research at the University of Berlin in Schneidemühl . From August 1939 to February 1940 he was a soldier at the Siegfried Line and was then released again for scientific work. From February 1941 he was custodian at the State Office for Prehistory in Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia , Thorn branch . Recalled for military service in September 1941, he died on the Eastern Front in the Caucasus in autumn 1942, meanwhile a sergeant and officer candidate . A manuscript on a form of the Germanic fibulae , which was intended as a habilitation thesis, was published, edited for print by Georg Kossack , posthumously in 1954.

He was married to the doctor Hilde Kuchenbuch, b. Kruckenberg. His son is the historian Ludolf Kuchenbuch .

Publications

• A new Hansa bowl from Stendal , in: Contributions to the history of the Altmark 5 (1928) 272–284.
• The Altmärkisch-Osthannovian bowl urn fields of the late Roman period , inaugural dissertation, Gebauer-Schwetschke, Halle 1938 (partial print of the dissertation with curriculum vitae)
• The Altmark-East Hanoverian bowl urn fields of the late Roman period , annual publication for the prehistory of the Saxon-Thuringian countries, vol. 27. Gebauer-Schwetschke, Halle 1938 (complete dissertation).
• The urn cemetery of Molkenberg, Kr. Jerichow II , in: Annual journal for the prehistory of the Saxon-Thuringian countries 29 (1938) 199–210.
• About old Stendal school programs , in: 600 years of high school in Stendal 1338–1938. Festschrift , Winckelmann School, Stendal 1938, pp. 149ff.
• The Longobards in the Altmark , in: Mitteldeutsche Volkheit 5,3 (1938) 39–43.
• The entire Silesian region in prehistory and early history , training document of the Silesian Regional Group of the Federation of German East , Breslau 1941.
• The fibula with folded foot. Studies on the chronology of the younger imperial era in free Germania , in: Saalburg-Jahrbuch 13 (1954) 5-51.

literature

• Kurt Langenheim: Freidank Kuchenbuch † , in: Nachrichtenblatt für Deutschen Vorzeit 19 (1943) 1 f. (with portrait).
• Herbert Kühn : The Germanic temple books of the migration period , Vol. 2, Academic Printing and Publishing Institute, Graz 1974, p. 499.