Günther Krahe

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Günther Krahe (* 1928 ) is a German prehistorian and, as the state curator, was the first director of the Augsburg branch of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . His excavation work made him familiar with Roman provincial archeology from the start .

Career

Krahe, son of linguist Hans Krahe , wrote his dissertation at Wolfgang Kimmig at the University of Tübingen and in 1958 a doctorate . His work was the first comprehensive representation of the previously known prehistoric finds on Upper Swabian settlement archeology. With this writing he initiated some important archaeological projects. The archeology of the Federsee Basin slowly resumed its work.

In 1959 Krahe became a research associate with Vladimir Milojčić , director of the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at Heidelberg University . After many years of preparation, the first opened in fall 1960 in Augsburg after the Second World War, newly created branch of the Department of Prehistory and Early History of the Bavarian State Office of Historic Monuments. Krahe became its first manager and initially kept the branch open as a one-man operation. His main task as chief curator during the economic boom was mainly rescue excavations , which anticipated the upcoming construction work. From 1960 to 1967 he headed the excavations in Cambodunum ( Kempten ) in Rome . The Roman burial ground on the Keckwiese provided important insights there.

Krahe became known to a wider audience as the excavator of the Roman settlement Tegelberg (1966–1968). The frescoes recovered from the Kaltbad there are among the highlights of the provincial Roman department in the Munich State Archaeological Collection . From 1963 on, Krahe also worked as an aerial photograph archaeologist . He was promoted to state curator on January 1, 1972. In addition to the excavations, Krahe was also involved in planning exhibitions. Due to the often tight financial resources of the branch, the continuous collaboration of local researchers, volunteers and self-taught people like Franz Krippner from Augsburg, who died in 2014, helped him to develop sound scientific foundations for researching individual regions. In 1990 Krahe retired. Wolfgang Czysz , who had been the second scientist at the branch since 1977 , became his successor.

Krahe is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and has been a member of the Swabian Research Foundation since 1977 .

Publications (selection)

  • Excavations in the early Roman burial ground of Cambodunum. In: Annual report of the Bavarian soil monument preservation. 3/1962 (1963), pp. 78-91.
  • A group of burial mounds from the middle Hallstatt period near Wehringen, district of Schwabmünchen, Swabia. In: Germania. 41, 1963, pp. 100-101.
  • The city of Cambodunum in the Roman hinterland near Kempten in the Allgäu. In: Das Bayerland special edition excavations in Bavaria. Munich 1967, pp. 19-24.
  • A Roman settlement on the edge of the Alps near Schwangau. In: Problems of the Time. Journal for science, business and culture. Special issue new excavations in Bavaria. Munich 1970, pp. 23-27.
  • Prehistory and early history of the Ries. In: Rieser Kulturtage. 1, 1976 (1977), pp. 56-62.
  • Nördlingen-Holheim, Donau-Ries district. Ofnet caves - villa rustica; Gains and losses. In: excavation notes from Bavaria. 2, 1976. 8 pages, unnumbered
  • with Hans Frei: Archaeological walks in the Ries (=  guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria. Swabia 2), Theiss, Stuttgart / Aalen 1979, ISBN 3-8062-0230-3 .
  • Roman trunk road in the rock near Buchenberg. In: The beautiful Allgäu. 41, 1978, pp. 70-72.
  • with Wolfgang Czysz : Excavations and finds in Bavarian Swabia 1978. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Swabia. 74, 1980, pp. 7-87.
  • Archeology in the Ries. In: Rieser Kulturtage. 3, 1980 (1981), pp. 45-63.
  • Late Hallstatt circular ditches without hills from Königsbrunn and Oberpeiching, Swabia. In: The archaeological year in Bavaria. 1980 (1981), pp. 96-97.
  • with Gisela Zahlhaas : Roman wall paintings in Schwangau, district of Ostallgäu , (=  material booklets for Bavarian prehistory. Series A 43). Lassleben, Kallmünz (Upper Palatinate) 1984, ISBN 3-7847-5043-5 .
  • History of Roman research in Bavarian Swabia. In: The Romans in Swabia. Anniversary exhibition 2000 years Augsburg. (=  Workbooks of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. 27). Volume 1, Lipp, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-87490-901-8 .
  • The restoration of the Roman villa at Holheim im Ries and the Roman bathing building near Schwangau im Allgäu. In: Preserved History? Ancient buildings and their preservation. Theiss, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0450-0 , p. 164 ff.
  • with Wolfgang Czysz: Via Claudia Augusta. Shape and history. In: Monument preservation information. Issue A, No. 58/7, September 1986, pp. 1-5.
  • Aerial archeology with a motor glider. In: Annual report of the Bavarian soil monument preservation. 21/1980, pp. 17-25.
  • with Norbert Nieszery: traces of prehistoric settlement as well as burial fields of the Bandkeramik and the Merovingian period near Steinheim, city of Dillingen ad Donau, district of Dillingen ad Donau, Swabia. In: The Archaeological Year in Bavaria. 1987 (1988), pp. 35-37.
  • Burial customs of the late Bronze Age in Schwabmünchen. In: Walter Pötzl (Ed.): Nature, History, Art and Culture. Landratsamt Augsburg, Augsburg 1989, pp. 34–35.
  • District ditches in Bavarian Swabia. (=  Publications of the Vorarlberger Landesmuseum. Series A, Volume 5). 1992, pp. 69-72.
  • The Roman settlement on Tegelberg. In: Wilhelm Liebhart : Schwangau. Village of the royal castles . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1996, ISBN 3-7995-3435-0 , pp. 73-90.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dissertations and habilitations in Freiburg and Tübingen with Wolfgang Kimmig. In: Find reports from Baden-Württemberg. 24 (2000), pp. 740-741; here, p. 740.
  2. ^ Günther Krahe: The prehistoric settlement in Upper Swabia in Württemberg. (Tübingen, July 24, 1958), unprinted; Alfons Dreher : The patriciate of the imperial city Ravensburg / 1st part. In: Journal for Württemberg State History. 29, pp. 51-88 (1960); here, p. 56.
  3. ^ Yearbook of the German Museums and Art History Institutes 1 (1959), p. 130.
  4. ^ Günther Krahe: 50 years of the Swabian office. In: Monument Preservation Information. 147, November 2010, pp. 9-11; here p. 9.
  5. ^ Gerhard Weber: The beginnings of the Roman Cambodunum-Kempten. In: History of the City of Kempten. On behalf of the city of Kempten (Allgäu). Dannheimer, Kempten 1989, ISBN 3-88881-011-6 , pp. 14-18; here, p. 14.
  6. ↑ Michael Mackensen : The Roman grave field on the Keckwiese in Kempten I, graves and burial grounds from the 1st and 4th centuries . Laßleben, Kallmünz, 1978, ISBN 3-7847-5034-6 , p. 183.
  7. ^ Günther Krahe: 50 years of the Swabian office. In: Denkmalpflege Information 147, November 2010, pp. 9–11; here p. 10.
  8. ^ Munich, Bavarian Office for the Preservation of Monuments. In: Kunstchronik 26 (1973), p. 86.
  9. ↑ Hilke Henning: From the Stone Age to the conquest of the country by the Romans. In: Andreas Kraus (Hrsg.): History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century. 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-39452-3 , pp. 3-45; here, p. 8.
  10. ^ Günther Krahe: Obituary for Franz Krippner. In: Monument preservation information. 160, 2015, pp. 93-94.
  11. ^ Günther Krahe: 50 years of the Swabian office. In: Monument Preservation Information. 147, November 2010, pp. 9-11; here p. 11.

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SURNAME Krahe, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH 1928