Gudrun Loewe

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Gudrun Loewe (* 28. January 1914 ; † 18th February 1994 ) was a German prehistorian that in different regions of Germany in the archaeological monument care and worked here, especially in the archaeological land survey. Her father was the lieutenant captain and airship commander Odo Loewe .

Live and act

Gudrun Loewe studied prehistory , geography and anthropology at the Universities of Kiel , Hamburg , Tübingen and Jena and graduated in 1943 from Gotthard Neumann in Jena with a dissertation on "The culture with corded ceramics in the state of Thuringia". As a result of Neumann's submission to the Ministry of Education, the appointment as an assistant for the Germanic Museum and the Institute for Pre- and Early History took place on October 1, 1939. From 1941 onwards she acted as a state representative for the prehistoric and early historical soil antiquities of Thuringia on behalf of Neumann and had to take over the entire internal and external service of the Germanisches Museum as an assistant . During this period there were excavations of Merovingian period graves in Ichtershausen near Arnstadt (1941), two corded ceramic burial mounds in Seifartsdorf near Stadtroda (1942) and six corded ceramic burial mounds in the Lucka Forest (1941/1942). From the summer semester of 1944, Loewe also offered lectures and exercises in prehistory and early history at the University of Jena.

After the end of the Second World War , Loewe left the Soviet occupation zone and worked at the Office for Soil Antiquities in Marburg , the Office for Soil Monument Preservation in Darmstadt and at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn (regional survey of the Kempen-Krefeld district ). In 1958 she was able to conclusively prove that the Wetterau fire graves were clever forgeries. In 1965 she moved to the State Office for Prehistory and Early History of Schleswig-Holstein , where she worked as a department head for the archaeological land survey. Here she mainly took on the scientific processing of the state survey of the old district of Schleswig . In 1979 she retired, but continued to work in the field with publications and lectures.

Works (selection)

Monographs
  • Catalogs on Central German Corded Ceramics, Part 1: Thuringia (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Vol. 17). Niemeyer Verlag, Halle 1959.
  • Kempen-Krefeld district (= archaeological finds and monuments of the Rhineland. Vol. 3). Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1971, ISBN 3-7927-0141-3 .
  • Schleswig District (since 1974 Schleswig-Flensburg District) (= Archaeological Monuments of Schleswig-Holstein. Vol. 8). Verlag Wachholtz, Neumünster 1998, ISBN 3-529-01308-0 .
Essays
  • several articles in Der Spatenforscher (supplement to the magazine Das Thüringer Fähnlein ) from 1941 to 1943.
  • several articles in the yearbook for the Schleswig Geest .
  • On the question of the authenticity of the Neolithic “Wetterau fire graves” . In: Germania . Vol. 36 (1958), pp. 421-436, ISSN  0016-8874 .
  • Prehistoric trunk roads in the southwestern Vogelsberg . In: Geschichtsverein Büdingen (Ed.): District Büdingen, Wesen and Becoming. Büdingen 1956, pp. 129-142.

Obituaries and tributes

  • Hans-Heinrich Bracker: Dr. Gudrun Loewe † . In: Yearbook for the Schleswig Geest. ISSN  0446-3935 , Vol. 43 (1995), pp. 257 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Jena University Archives, holdings D, No. 2002.

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personal data
SURNAME Loewe, Gudrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric woman
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1914
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1994