Hans Aust

Hans Aust (born January 27, 1926 in Dornbusch , † October 5, 1984 in Bederkesa ) was a German teacher and prehistoric archaeologist . Since 1966 he worked as a district archaeologist for the district of Cuxhaven .

Life

Hans Aust attended the elementary school in Dornbusch from 1932 to 1936 . Even as a schoolboy he came into contact with archeology when he mapped large stone graves and barrows in his home region . In 1936 he moved with his family to Lehe , where he attended secondary school. In 1943 he graduated from high school and was drafted first for labor service and then for military service as a pilot . After being a prisoner of war for a short time , he attended school in Lehe again, where he graduated from high school. 1946 and 1947 he made in Bremerhaven trained as a primary school teacher and then taught in Bremerhaven, Langen and Dorum . In addition to his teaching profession, he worked as a voluntary ground monument conservationist after the local history researcher Karl Waller from Cuxhaven introduced him to practical monument conservation and in 1952 left him looking after the Wesermünde district . From 1954 to 1957, Hans Aust was trained as a secondary school teacher at the Oldenburg University of Education . His examination paper dealt with the prehistory of the southern Hohen Lieths . After completing his studies, he worked as a teacher in Bederkesa until 1965.

Hans Aust gained his first practical archaeological experience in 1949 when excavating the burial mound near Debstedt . In 1953 an imperial settlement near Holßel was excavated . From 1952 he worked with the Lower Saxony State Institute for Marsh and Wurt Research and accompanied the Feddersen Wierde project through the search for a suitable Wurt for an excavation . He also supported the state institute in this research project with public relations work through guided tours and the writing of newspaper articles, as well as with the investigation of the Flögeln settlement chamber .

In 1966 he changed his profession and went to the district of Cuxhaven as an archaeologist. This made him the first district archaeologist in the Federal Republic. He later held the title of archaeological director. The employment was linked to the condition that the subjects Prehistory and Protohistory as a major and Folklore and Middle and Modern History in the minor subjects were to be studied and a doctorate. Hans Aust then began a third degree at the age of 40. In 1972 he completed it under Hans Jürgen Eggers at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on prehistory and early history in the Wesermünde district, in which he had carried out the archaeological survey from 1961. Archaeological finds and monuments in the area as well as emergency excavations, recoveries and found objects from museums and collections flowed into his doctoral thesis.

After the restoration of Bederkesa Castle , Hans Aust moved into the complex in 1982 with the archaeological preservation of the district of Cuxhaven. There he was also director of the Bederkesa Castle Museum , which he had built up through his research. He died during the 35th symposium of the Working Group for Saxony Research in Bederkesa in 1984, which he was involved in organizing.

Publications

• with Fritz von Osterhausen: Bederkesa Castle. About the fate of a building , 1976
• The prehistory and early history of the district of Cuxhaven. Altkreis Wesermünde , Hamburg, 1982 (dissertation)
• The integrated community Beverstedt in the present u. Past , Bremerhaven, 1983

literature

• Peter Schmid : Hans Aust, a life for archeology in the Elbe-Weser triangle . In: Yearbook. Men from the Morning Star . Heimatbund at the mouth of the Elbe and Weser , Bremerhaven, 1984, pp. 265-268.
• Wolf Haio Zimmermann : Obituary for Hans Aust. January 27, 1926 to October 5, 1984. In: The customer new episode 36, Hanover, 1985, pp. 397-400.

Web links

• Photo by Hans Aust