Hans Steckeweh

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Hans Steckeweh (born October 31, 1902 ; † in the 20th century) was a German architect who, among other things, worked as a building researcher in Egypt.

life and career

In 1933 he received his Dr.-Ing. Degree from Uvo Hölscher at the Technical University of Hanover . PhD. In 1934 he and Ernst Sellin excavated in Shechem in Palestine.

He worked as a provincial building officer in Münster. In 1946 he was head of the State Housing and Planning Office in the Ministry for Development, Labor and Welfare of the State of Hanover . In 1948 he was the head of the Zonal Advisory Office for Housing and Town and Country Planning , based in Lemgo.

Before the Second World War he was married to Heta (Hedwig) Fischer, a communist who accompanied him on his visits to Egypt and Palestine.

Publications

  • The royal tombs of Qaw. Publications of the Ernst von Sieglin expedition in Egypt vol. 6. JC Hinrichs, Leipzig 1936 (= dissertation Hanover 1933).
  • Werla, Pfalz and Heerburg Heinrichs I. In: Research and progress 13, 1937, pp. 339–341.
  • Upper Egyptian architecture at the beginning of the Middle and New Kingdom. In: Report on the VI. International Congress of Archeology. Archaeological Institute of the German Empire, Berlin 1940, pp. 261–263.
  • with Ernst Sellin: Shechem. In: Journal of the German Palestine Association 64, 1941, pp. 1-20.

literature

  • Walter Vogel: West Germany 1945-1950. Part 3, Boldt, Boppard, 1983, p. 430.
  • Thomas Schneider : Egyptologists in the Third Reich. Biographical notes based on the so-called "Steindorff list". In: Thomas Schneider, Peter Raulwing (Ed.): Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich. Ideology, scholarship and individual biographies. Brill, Leiden, 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24329-3 , pp. 142-143.

Individual evidence

  1. Fossil Reste , In: Der Spiegel from May 18, 1950 ; Schneider 2013, p. 143.