Gertrud Dorka

Gertrud Dorka (born March 19, 1893 in Orlau in the Neidenburg district , † February 14, 1976 in Berlin ) was a German teacher and prehistoric . She was the first director of a German museum.

life and work

Gertrud Dorka attended the secondary girls' school and was then trained as a teacher in East Prussia. In 1914 she came to Berlin was in Pankow hired and attended alongside lectures at the Berlin University for Pre- and Early History , u. a. with Albert Kiekebusch , who later headed the Märkisches Museum . She received her doctorate in 1936 at the University of Kiel under Gustav Schwantes , but could not take up a position because she refused the necessary entry into the NSDAP . She therefore went back to Pankow and worked there as a teacher until August 1947.

Gertrud Dorka organized her first exhibition on prehistoric and early history topics in 1926. With effect from September 1, 1947, she became director of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in East Berlin, which she headed until March 31, 1958. During this time, the war damage had to be repaired, which resulted in recovering and securing numerous buried finds for the second time. At the same time, she was the head of the department for monument preservation in Greater Berlin.

In 1961 Dorka published a first systematic overview of the prehistoric finds in the Berlin district of Neukölln .

In Berlin, the Gertrud-Dorka-Weg in Rudow is named after her.

literature

• Adriaan von Müller : Gertrud Dorka: 80 years. In: Excavations in Berlin. 3, 1972, ISSN  0341-8499 , p. 5.
• Wilfried Menghin (Ed.): The Berlin Museum for Pre- and Early History. Festschrift for the 175th anniversary (= Acta praehistorica et archaeologica. 36/37). Staatliche Museen - Prussischer Kulturbesitz - Museum für Pre- und Frühgeschichte, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-88609-907-X , pp. 527-528.

Web links

• Gertrud-Dorka-Weg. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )