Hartmut Rötting

Hartmut Rötting (born August 11, 1932 in Neustadt an der Orla ; † January 4, 2015 in Schliestedt ) was a German historian and medieval archaeologist .

life and work

For the first three years of his life, Rötting grew up in Neustadt an der Orla, where his father was a teacher. Then the family moved to Gotha, where he spent his youth and passed his Abitur. When he was not allowed to study forest science, he left the GDR and fled to West Germany in 1951. In Frankfurt / Main he took his Abitur examination again, as his Abitur was not recognized in the GDR. Among other things , he studied prehistory , early history and art history at the Universities of Marburg , Innsbruck and the Free University of Berlin . From 1954 to 1961 he studied theater studies at the University of Vienna . In Vienna he staged plays and worked as a freelance director and dramaturge at a cellar theater .

From 1973 he took part in the first excavations in East Friesland and Lübeck , where he was employed as a research assistant at the University of Kiel . In 1973 he examined the mixed-use cemetery of Cleverns , the excavation of which began in 1938 and was not finished due to the war. He wrote his master's thesis on the subject. Almost at the same time he examined an early medieval burial ground in Schortens . In 1976 he was appointed head of department for archaeological monument preservation in the Braunschweig administrative district , followed by a position as district archaeologist in the Institute for Monument Preservation of the Lower Saxony State Administration Office . His main focus was urban archeology in Braunschweig. In 1980 Rötting received a teaching position for prehistory and early history at the Technical University of Braunschweig , which made him an honorary professor in 1991 .

Rötting was one of the first to introduce interdisciplinary collaboration between archeology and scientific-technical subjects, for example in settlement archeology .

Since 1994 Rötting was a member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society . In 1997 he retired.

Fonts (selection)

• Archaeological Monument Preservation Braunschweig 1976/77. Excavation results 1976. Catalog for the special exhibition in the Braunschweiger Landesmuseum für Geschichte und Volkstum. May - September 1977. Braunschweig 1977, OCLC 313869194 .
• The burial place of Lothar III. in the collegiate church of Königslutter. In: churches, monasteries, factories. Historical cultural assets in the state of Braunschweig. Braunschweigischer Vereinierter Kloster- und Studienfonds, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-924553-01-7 , pp. 61–82.
• Urban archeology in Braunschweig. Research on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony, CW Niemeyer, Hanover 1997, ISBN 3-8271-8123-2 .
• The beginnings of the city of Braunschweig. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Gerhard Schildt (ed.): The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. A region looking back over the millennia . 2nd Edition. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-930292-28-9 , pp. 301-316 .
• Imperial Palace Goslar. The early Ottonian residential tower in the early 10th century and the late Tonic Palatinate on the Liebfrauenberg in the early 11th century. In: Mamoun Fansa , Frank Both, Henning Haßmann (ed.): Archeology | Land | Lower Saxony. 400,000 years of history. Landesmuseum für Natur und Mensch, Oldenburg 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1926-5 , pp. 578-582.

literature

• Michael Heinrich Schormann: Obituary Prof. Hartmut Rötting in: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony , 4/2015

Web links

• Works by Hartmut Rötting at Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary of the Braunschweig Scientific Society
2. ↑ Reports on the preservation of monuments 2015/4.