Peter Goessler

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Peter Goessler (born May 17, 1872 in Geislingen an der Steige ; † March 12, 1956 in Tübingen ) was a German prehistorian and monument conservator in the state of Württemberg .

Live and act

Peter Goessler was born as the son of the pastor in Geislingen an der Steige and spent his youth in Neuenstadt am Kocher and in Lustnau . After attending the theological seminars in Schöntal and Urach , he studied classical philology and history at the Tübingen monastery with Ernst von Herzog and Dietrich Schäfer , and later with Ernst Curtius in Berlin. As a student, he joined the Igel University of Tübingen in the winter semester of 1890/91 .

Goessler worked as an assistant teacher at several high schools in the country, including 1898–1899 in Mergentheim . From July 1902 to September 1903 he traveled the eastern Mediterranean region and got to know Wilhelm Dörpfeld ; In the following three decades, Peter Goessler was repeatedly employed by Dörpfeld on Leukas and in 1951 he dedicated a biography of his friend, who died in 1940.

Above all, Goessler's importance lies in his work for monument preservation and prehistory research in Württemberg. In October 1905 he became an assistant at the State Conservatory (later: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the Württemberg State Museum ), and in 1920 head of the State Conservatory. In 1934 Goessler had to withdraw for political reasons and devoted himself to his scientific work in Tübingen , where he had been an honorary professor since 1931. 1946–48 he was appointed head of the re-established Württemberg Commission for State History .

Peter Goessler was a member of numerous commissions and local history associations, including the Württemberg Anthropological Association and the Association for Coin Studies. What should be emphasized, however, is his membership and work in the Württemberg History and Antiquity Association , of which he became chairman from the beginning of 1931 and continued the work of Karl Weller . After the history and antiquity associations were voluntarily brought into line in September 1933, his work became difficult. As a result of a clash with the Minister of Culture Christian Mergenthaler at the end of 1933 he had to vacate his post for the National Socialist Hermann Haering and at that time he moved to Tübingen, but remained nominally chairman of the association until 1935. After the end of the Second World War he campaigned for the reconstruction of the Club. Under his leadership, a meeting of active members of the association took place at the Technical University of Stuttgart in February 1946 , in which the provisional board of directors (three people) was appointed to promote the reconstruction of the association. As an advisory board, Peter Goessler took on the lecture at the first regular general meeting after the war in October 1946.

After the Second World War, Goessler took over the office of chairman of the Swabian Alb Association . In 1949 he was replaced by Georg Fahrbach .

Services

Goessler's professional interest included the question of the transition from Roman antiquity to the Middle Ages . As one of the first in south-west German archeology, he considered the history of the settlement with regard to the early Middle Ages and analyzed the sites within individual districts as early as 1921 in order to arrive at conclusions about the relationship between Roman and Alemannic settlement structures.

Honors

  • 1949: Honorary member of the Swabian Heimatbund
  • 1952: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • In 1952 , the Goessler lime tree was planted on the site of the Heuneburg open-air museum in honor of Goessler, who carried out the first excavations in 1921. It is located next to today's barbecue area.
  • A street in Tübingen was named after him.

Publications (selection)

Barrows in the Illertal
  • Leukas Ithaca. The home of Odysseus . Metzler, Stuttgart 1904, ( digitized version ).
  • The Roman Rottweil. Mainly due to the excavations in autumn 1906 . Metzler, Stuttgart 1907.
  • with Max Geyr von Schweppenburg: Hill graves in the Illertal near Tannheim . Neff, Esslingen am Neckar 1910.
  • The antiquities of the Oberamt Blaubeuren (= The antiquities in the Kingdom of Württemberg 1, ZDB -ID 1061158-7 ). Neff, Esslingen am Neckar 1911.
  • On the threshold from Germanic antiquity to the Middle Ages . In: "Württemberg quarterly books for regional history". NF 30, 1921, ISSN  0179-0889 , pp. 1-24 .
  • with Gerhard Bersu : The Punch Stone near Balingen . In: Find reports from Swabia . NF 2, 1922/1924, ISSN  0016-2752 , pp. 73-103.
  • as editor: Contributions to southern German coin history. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Württembergischer Verein für Münzkunde e. V. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1927.
  • Oberamt Leonberg: Antiquities. In: Description of the Oberamt Leonberg (= description of the Kingdom of Württemberg. 30, 1). Volume 1. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1930, pp. 120-251.
  • Professor Eugen Nägele , his life and work . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1947.
  • To all sorts of problems of our early Alemannic times, especially the Michelsberg . In: Horst Kirchner (Ed.): Prehistory and early history as historical science. Festschrift for Ernst Wahle's 60th birthday . Winter, Heidelberg 1950, pp. 212-221.
  • Wilhelm Dörpfeld. A life in the service of antiquity . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1951.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicole Bickhof: 175 years of the Württemberg History and Antiquity Association - a look back . In: “Rundbrief. Württembergischer Geschichts- und Altertumsverein “25 (April 2018), pp. 3–38; here p. 30
  2. ^ Eva Walter: Georg Fahrbach - unforgotten . In: " Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein ", issue 2/2003, p. 22ff.
  3. ↑ The appointment took place in the context of the 40th anniversary of the federal government on May 22, 1949: Honor roll. In: Schwäbisches Heimatbuch 1949. Ed. By Felix Schuster on behalf of the Schwäbisches Heimatbund. Stuttgart [1949], pp. 176-177, p. 176.
  4. ↑ here and on website of Karin Brinker. Entry from July 17, 2016. Accessed January 7, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Goessler, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Geislingen an der Steige
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1956
Place of death Tübingen