Günter Wetzel (prehistorian)

Günter Wetzel (born February 22, 1942 in Hassel near Stendal ) is a German prehistorian .

Life

Guenter Wetzel had been a student in his Altmark home archaeologically active. He studied prehistory and early history at the University of Leipzig with Heinz Arno Knorr . He then took part under Ewald Schuldt in the research program on Mecklenburg megalithic graves and dug on the end-Neolithic settlement site of Lanz. In 1974 he received his doctorate in Leipzig with an overall study of the end-Neolithic Schönfeld culture . From 1966 to 1991 he was head of the Cottbus branch of the State Museum for Prehistory and Early History in Potsdam . There he became the driving force behind the development of archaeological rescue activities at the lignite opencast mines and a formative role model for everyone who studied prehistory and early history in the GDR during this time and completed internships, holiday work and voluntary assignments there. From 1991 to 2007 Günter Wetzel was head of the ground monument preservation at the newly organized Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum in Potsdam-Babelsberg , later in Wünsdorf . From 1991 to 2009, he was chairman of the Central and East German Association for Antiquity Research.

The main research areas of Wetzel are the Young , Late and End Neolithic of Central Europe , the Lusatian culture , Slavic archeology and the history of the preservation of monuments in East Germany. Günter Wetzel is married to the prehistorian Ingrid Wetzel, and Richard Wetzel is also a prehistoric of their two sons.

Fonts

• The Neolithic settlement of the Altmark. In: Jahresschrift für Middle German Prehistory 50. 1966, pp. 33–60.
• A dune living space near Lanz, Kr. Ludwigslust. Soil monument preservation in Mecklenburg. Jb. 1967 (1969), pp. 129-169.
• Finds of the bell beaker culture east of the Elbe on the territory of the GDR. In: Publications of the Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Potsdam 10. Berlin 1976, pp. 55–74.
• The Schönfeld culture. Publications of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle, Volume 31, Berlin 1979.
• The archaeological investigations in the districts of Schönfeld and Seese, Kr. Calau. In: B. Gramsch (ed.): Schönfeld and Seese. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Niederlausitz. Publications of the Museum for Pre- and Early History Potsdam 19, Berlin 1985, pp. 13–117.
• New early Neolithic finds from the Cottbus district. In: Publications of the Museum for Pre- and Early History Potsdam 22. Berlin 1988, pp. 27–33.
• Andje Knaack, Günter Wetzel: New cord ceramic grave finds from the Cottbus district. In: Publications of the Museum for Pre- and Early History Potsdam 22. Berlin 1988, pp. 35–87.
• Günter Wetzel, Achim Leube : Archaeological research and preservation of monuments in Lower Lusatia and neighboring regions. A brief history of people and research. Niederlausitzer Studien, special issue 12, Cottbus 2010, ISBN 978-3-86929-065-2

literature

• Eberhard Bönisch: The history of prehistory or - how did archeology begin in Niederlausitz? The History of Pre-History or - How Did Archeology Start in Lower Lusatia? In: F. Schopper, D. Dähnert (Ed.), M. Agthe, E. Bönisch (Red.): Archeology in Lower Lusatia. Archeology in Lower Lusatia. Cottbus 2012, pp. 12-27.

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Wetzel in the catalog of the German National Library