Friedrich Lüth

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Friedrich Lüth (born March 3, 1957 in Accra ) is a German prehistoric archaeologist .

Life

Lüth studied prehistory and early history, Near Eastern archeology and ethnology in Saarbrücken and Hamburg and was in 1988 with the topic Salzmünde-Walternienburg-Bernburg. Typological and chronological studies on the Eneolithic of Central Germany for Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked in 1988, initially as a volunteer, then from 1990 to 1992 as head of the soil monument preservation department at the Helms Museum - Hamburg Museum of Archeology . In 1992 he became a state archaeologist for Mecklenburg-Western Pomeraniaand appointed head of the State Office for Land Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum in Schwerin ; he headed the office until October 2006. From 2006 to 2011 Lüth was First Director of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute . Since November 1, 2011, he has been responsible for the protection of cultural property and site management at the headquarters of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin . The RGK was then under the provisional management of Svend Hansen until Eszter Bánffy took over the post of first director at the end of 2013.

Services

Lüth is particularly active in science management and has played a leading role in numerous major projects, for example in the DFG research group SINCOS , which was involved in the reconstruction of historical processes in the western Baltic Sea region in the 6th – 4th Millennium BC Concerned. In the future, SINCOS plans to extend this project to Poland and the Baltic States. Research on spatial settlement patterns of the Funnel Beaker culture in cooperation with Polish colleagues is to be added.

Memberships

criticism

While Lüth was working as a state archaeologist for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and head of the state authority for soil conservation, the three dugout canoes from Stralsund , which were between 7000 and 6000 years old, were found during construction work in front of the Hansa-Gymnasium in Stralsund in 2002 . They were handed over to the responsible office in Schwerin, whose director was Lüth, for preservation. In 2009 it was revealed that they had already rotted away in 2004 due to improper storage. The member of the SPD in the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Klaus-Michael Körner , accused Lüth, the former head of the state office for soil conservation, of being responsible for the loss of the valuable boats. Lüth rejected the allegations and stated that he was first informed on March 11, 2009 about the loss of Europe's oldest boat finds. In fact, as it became known after the loss became known, Lüth wrote to the Ministry of Education on June 5, 2002: “In conclusion, I may remind you of the urgency of the matter. The dugout canoes begin to crumble! "And on July 16, 2002:" The sensational finds (...) have gradually got into a pitiful state. If no remedial action is taken soon, it will no longer be possible to conserve these finds. ”From mid-March 2009, the Schwerin public prosecutor's office checked whether there was a breach of duty of criminal relevance; the proceedings were discontinued in September 2009 due to the statute of limitations.

The investigative commission set up by the state government came to the conclusion in May 2009 that the dugout canoes had fallen apart due to improper storage. The responsibility lies with the then management of the state office. According to the commission of inquiry, the Ministry of Education also failed to comply with its technical supervision in the years 2002 to 2004.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news447173
  2. ^ Directory of members on the website of the Historical Commission for Pomerania .
  3. ^ List of members on the website of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg .
  4. ↑ "Decay of the Stone Age Boats: State Parliament Asks", NDR Online, March 12, 2009 ( Memento of March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ "Stone Age Boats: Lüth rejects guilt", Hamburger Abendblatt, March 16, 2009
  6. ^ "Rotten dugout canoes: State Office knew everything", Ostsee-Zeitung, March 19, 2009
  7. ↑ excavation. Investigations are ongoing . In: Südkurier of March 14, 2009
  8. ↑ A dugout scandal without consequences for state monument preservationists. In: Die Welt from September 29, 2009 ( online ).
  9. ↑ press release. No. 090-09. Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , May 26, 2009, accessed on November 17, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Lüth, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Accra