Hans-Helmut Wegner

Hans-Helmut Wegner is a German prehistorian and, as chief curator, was for many years director of the Office for Archeology in Koblenz , a branch of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Life

After studying archeology, Wegner received his doctorate from the Philipps University of Marburg in 1973 with a work on the Latène period finds from Christenberg near Münchhausen . After he was appointed head of the Koblenz branch of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Monument Preservation, he steadily expanded the office with new impulses and was thus able to anchor its importance to the public. In 2003, for example, he set up the “Salvaged Treasures” department in the Landesmuseum Koblenz . In addition to many other activities, Wegner was responsible for the Rhineland-Palatinate section of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes and thus also involved in the preparations for its inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005 . After 27 years, he stepped down from the management of the branch office and retired on October 30, 2007. The last major project he was involved in was the 2007 special exhibition, Life on the Limes , held in the Koblenz State Museum . His current deputy, the archaeologist Axel von Berg , took over as acting successor .

The excavations initiated by Wegner at the Mart and Hüttenberg fortifications , which took place from 1986 to 1987, resulted in a six-year research project by the German Research Foundation (DFG) that lasted from 1994 to 1999 and focused on the Mart and Hüttenberg. In another ten-year long-term DFG project entitled “Archaeological, numismatic and scientific research on the Celtic - Roman sanctuary and oppidum on Mart and Hüttenberg near Pomerania and Karden on the Lower Moselle”, which was completed in 2011, the results were compiled and published and published in 2014 in three volumes with five sub-volumes in the series "Reports on Archeology on the Middle Rhine and Moselle". Wegner kept the project administration and lead management until the end and acted as the publisher of the publications. Wegner emphasized: "In any case, it was a very special research object, which ultimately cost around 2.2 million euros." The research project was financed by the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and the German Research Foundation and by the General Management Cultural Heritage, Regional Archeology Directorate, edited and implemented with the Koblenz branch, by the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory of the University of Kiel and the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . The results of the excavations can be visited and experienced by the public in an archeology park.

As a student, Wegner was a founding member of the " German Society for Pre- and Early History " (DGUF) on October 25, 1969 and its chairman from 1983 to 1987. He is the initiator and founder of the “Society for Archeology on the Middle Rhine and Moselle”, a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and, through the State Office for Monument Preservation, also a member of the German Limes Commission (DLK).

He published numerous archaeological guides and publications . As editor he was responsible, among other things, for the “Annual Report of the Office for Archeology in Koblenz of the State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate”.

Fonts (selection)

• with Axel von Berg u. a .: Cochem-Zell and the middle Moselle valley . (= Excursions on archeology, history and culture in Germany 17), Theiss, 2005
• The Martberg near Pomerania on the Moselle. A fortified hilltop settlement of the Celts in the Treveri area . (= Archeology on the Middle Rhine and Moselle 12), Society for Archeology on the Middle Rhine and Moselle, 1997.
• Archeology, volcanoes and cultural landscape. Studies on the development of a landscape in the Eastern Eifel . (= Archeology on the Middle Rhine and Moselle 11), Society for Archeology on the Middle Rhine and Mosel, 1995.
• Archeology in Koblenz . (= Archeology on the Middle Rhine and Moselle 6), Society for Archeology on the Middle Rhine and Mosel, 1991.
• Medieval pottery in Mayen. Archaeological research "In the castle gardens" . (= Archeology on the Middle Rhine and Moselle 4), Society for Archeology on the Middle Rhine and Moselle, 1990.
• The Latène Age finds from Christenberg near Münchhausen, Marburg-Biedenkopf district (= materials on the prehistory and early history of Hesse 6), State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, 1989 (= dissertation, Marburg, 1973).
• A medieval ceramic kiln in Xanten , Rheinland Verlag, 1981

literature

• Worked for the Limes for 25 years. Dr. Hans-Helmut Wegner, a partner of the Westerwald Association, is retired - an archaeologist with a heart for Roman history . In: Westerwälder Zeitung 62 (2007), 261 of November 10, p. 17.
• 25 years of solidarity for the preservation of the Limes. Archaeologist Dr. Hans-Helmut Wegner retired . In: Der Westerwald 101 (2008), 1, pp. 17-18.

Web links

Hans-Helmut Wegner as an applicant at the DFG

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jens Albes: New shop window for old eras. Neanderthals at the Koblenz fortress [1] In: RZ-online, rhein-zeitung.de , July 29, 2003; accessed on August 2, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dr. Hans-Helmut Wegner presents the final publication on Martberg to the public in the Karden monastery museum , online report from June 11, 2014; accessed on July 31, 2020
3. ^ Founding document of the DGUF with Wegner's signature, www.dguf.de; accessed on August 1, 2020.