Georg Kraft (prehistoric)

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Georg Kraft (born March 11, 1894 in Bad Neuenahr , † November 27, 1944 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German prehistorian .

After studying in Tübingen and doing his doctorate in Freiburg in 1922, Georg Kraft came to the University of Freiburg's geological collections in 1926 under Wilhelm Deecke as an assistant . There Kraft completed his habilitation in prehistory in 1926, so that from 1927 he became head of the Museum of Prehistory . He also taught as a private lecturer at the University of Freiburg . From 1930 he was an archaeological curator for Upper Baden . He was very active and took care of inconspicuous finds, for example the Roman bronze plaque found in Wutöschingen in 1933 . He died in the air raid on Freiburg on November 27, 1944 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The culture of the Bronze Age in southern Germany. Investigated on the basis of the finds in Württemberg. Augsburg, Benno Filser publishing house, 1926
  • Primitive man as creator. The spiritual world of the Ice Age man. Berlin, Emil Ebering Publishing House, 1941

literature

  • Wolfgang Kimmig : Georg Kraft (1894–1944). In: Badische Fundberichte 17, 1941–1947, pp. 17–22.
  • Andrea Bräuning: Georg Michael Kraft and the beginnings of Freiburg's prehistory and early history. In: Alemannisches Jahrbuch 57/58, 2009/2010, pp. 115–153

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Merkel: From prehistory and early history. In: Wutöschingen once and now , 2006, p. 31 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Kraft, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Neuenahr
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1944
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau