Günter Wegner

Günter Wegner (born March 31, 1937 in Kleinostheim , Aschaffenburg district ; † November 23, 2016 in Würzburg ) was a German prehistoric archaeologist .

Life

Wegner studied Catholic theology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg from 1957 to 1963 and worked in pastoral care until 1970 , including at times as a research assistant . In 1969 he received his doctorate for the first time . In 1970 it was laicized through papal dispensation . From 1970 to 1975 he studied prehistory, also at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, with a second doctorate under Günther Haseloff . From 1978 to 1987 Wegner was head curator of the prehistoric department at the State Museum for Natural History and Prehistory in Oldenburg and had a teaching position at the University of Oldenburg . From 1987 to 2002 he headed the archaeological department of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover , had a teaching position at the University of Göttingen and had been an honorary professor there since 1997 . In 2002 he retired. From 1987 to 1996 he was chairman of the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony and from 1987 to 2000 chairman of the Lower Saxony State Association for Prehistory and editor of the magazine Die Kunde .

He was married to Christine Wegner and had a son. He is buried in the cemetery in Berlin-Frohnau .

Fonts

Monographs

• Church year and mass celebration in the Würzburg cathedral liturgy of the late Middle Ages (= sources and research on the history of the diocese and monastery of Würzburg. Vol. 22). Schöningh in commission, Würzburg 1970, ISBN 3-87717-022-6 (At the same time: Würzburg, University, theological dissertation).
• Kleinostheim. Documents and contributions to its history. Edited by the community of Kleinostheim on the occasion of the millennium. Kleinostheim community, Kleinostheim 1975.
• The prehistoric river finds from the Main and from the Rhine near Mainz (= material booklets for Bavarian prehistory. Row A: Find inventories and excavation findings. H. 30). Lassleben, Kallmünz 1976, ISBN 3-7847-5000-1 (also: Würzburg, University, phil. Dissertation).
• Archaeological finds from the Oldenburger Münsterland. Museumsdorf Cloppenburg, Cloppenburg 1985, ISBN 3-923675-05-4 .

Essays

• River finds. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Volume 9: Fidel - Peacelessness. 2nd, completely revised and greatly expanded edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1995, ISBN 3-11-014642-8 , pp. 263-276.
• Prehistory and early history of the city of Wildeshausen and its surroundings. In: Albrecht Eckhard (ed.): Wildeshausen. History of the town of Wildeshausen from the beginning to the end of the 20th century. Isensee, Oldenburg 1999, ISBN 3-89598-631-3 , pp. 23-43.
• On many and between some chairs. Comments on the dispute between Karl Hermann Jacob-Friesen and Hans Reinerth . In: Achim Leube (Ed.): Prehistory and National Socialism. Central and Eastern European research on prehistory and early history in the years 1933–1945 (= studies on the history of science and universities. Vol. 2). Synchron, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-935025-08-4 , pp. 397-417.
• 75 years working group for the prehistory of Northern Germany - Lower Saxony state association for prehistory and their magazine “Die Kunde”. Part 1: 1932-1945. In: The customer . New Series, Vol. 57, 2006, pp. 225-276.
• 75 years working group for the prehistory of Northern Germany - Lower Saxony state association for prehistory and their magazine “Die Kunde”. Part 2: 1950-2001. In: The customer. New series, Vol. 58, 2007, pp. 107-166.

Editorships

• Early farming cultures in Lower Saxony. Linear ceramics, stitch ceramics, Rössen culture (= Archaeological Communications from Northwest Germany. Vol. 1, ISSN  0170-5776 ). Isensee, Oldenburg 1983 (with exhibition).
• Life - Belief - Dying 3000 years ago. Bronze Age in Lower Saxony. A Lower Saxony exhibition on the Council of Europe's Bronze Age campaign (= booklets accompanying exhibitions in the Prehistory Department of the Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover. Vol. 7). Isensee, Oldenburg 1996, ISBN 3-89598-404-3 .

literature

• Archaeological research in Lower Saxony 1987–2002. Festschrift for Günter Wegner (= The customer . New series, vol. 53–55). 3 volumes. Lower Saxony State Association for Prehistory, Hanover 2002–2004.
• List of publications by Günter Wegner. In: The customer . New series, vol. 53, p. 2002, pp. 8-12.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PROF. DR. DR. GÜNTER WEGNER * 31 . In: mainpost.de . November 28, 2016 ( archive.org [accessed November 29, 2016]).
2. ↑ http://www.ak-niedersachsen.de/ak-dank.htm
3. ↑ http://www.urgeschichte.de/htm/ehrungweg.htm