Hartwig Lüdtke

Hartwig Lüdtke

Hartwig Lüdtke (* 1954 in Hamburg ) is a German archaeologist and museum director. Since 2006 he has been director of the Technoseum State Museum for Technology and Work in Mannheim.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1973 at the Christianeum in Hamburg, Lüdtke completed a two-year service with the Federal Border Police from 1974 to 1975. From 1976 to 1982 he then studied prehistory, history, geography and education in Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main and Mainz. In 1982 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Hamburg with the dissertation The Medieval Ceramics of Schleswig .

From 1982 to 1990 Lüdtke worked as a scientific advisor at the Archaeological State Museum Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig. In this function he carried out excavations in Haithabu and the old town of Schleswig and researched and published on medieval urban archeology. He was also involved in the planning and initial installation of the Viking Museum Haithabu , which opened in 1985 . He took over its management in 1987.

From 1982 to 1990 Lüdtke also organized the annual international colloquium on medieval ceramics in Schleswig. In 1986 he was a visiting researcher at the Bryggens Museum in Bergen (Norway) for a year . Guest lectures in Bergen (Norway) and Aarhus (Denmark) followed. Parallel to the various museum tasks, he devoted himself to researching medieval ceramics. This work resulted in the publication of a multi-volume manual in 2001.

After Lüdtke had been director of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn from 1991 to 1995 , he was appointed curator in 1995 in the function of general director of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication with the four museums for communication in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg and Nuremberg.

Lüdtke has been the Foundation Board member and director of the TECHNOSEUM State Museum for Technology and Work in Mannheim since 2006 .

Functions and memberships

• German Museum Association (since 1990); Member of the Board of Directors (1999 to 2007)
• International Museum Council ICOM (since 1990); Member of the board of ICOM Germany (1999 to 2004), member of the board of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology (since 2013)
• Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (since 1994)
• Presidium of the German Associations for Antiquity Research, Vice President (1993 to 1996)
• Board member of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz (1994 to 2002)
• German UNESCO Commission (since 2000); Chairman of the Culture Committee (2002 to 2010), Member of the German Nomination Committee for the Memory of the World (MOW) program (since 2006), Vice President (since 2014)
• Scientific Commission of the Institute for Museum Research of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berlin; Chairman (2005 to 2014)
• Board of Trustees of the Center for Applied Cultural Studies and General Studies of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (since 2009)
• Advisory Board German Occupational Safety and Health Exhibition (DASA) (since 2013), Chairman (since 2017)

Publications (in selection)

• The medieval ceramics of Schleswig (= excavations in Schleswig, reports and studies, Volume 4). Neumünster 1985. ISBN 3529014540
• The Bryggen Pottery I: Introduction and Pingsdorf Ware . (= Bryggen Papers. Supplementary Series No. 4). Bergen 1989. ISBN 8200027961
• with R. Vossen (Ed.): Pottery research - archaeological, ethnological, folkloric. Conference report on the international colloquium 1987 in Schleswig (= pottery and ceramics research volume 2). Bonn 1991. ISBN 3774924392
• The archaeological investigations under the Schleswig town hall market. In: Church and burial ground of the 11th – 13th centuries Century under the town hall market of Schleswig (= excavations in Schleswig. Reports and studies Volume 12), Neumünster 1997, pp. 9–84. ISBN 3529014621
• with Kurt Schietzel (ed.): Handbook on medieval ceramics in Northern Europe , 3 volumes; Neumünster 2001. ISBN 352901818X
• with U. Fuchs: The first 10 years - Anniversary balance sheet on the work of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications (= catalogs of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications Volume 20). Bonn and Heidelberg 2004. ISBN 9783980844826
• with A. Eichler (Ed.): Art and Communication - The Art Collection of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication. (= Catalogs of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication Volume 21), Bonn and Heidelberg 2005. ISBN 3899041887
• with Cornelia Ewigleben, H. Lochmann, V. Rodekamp: Sustainable collecting. A guide to collecting and giving away museum items . Published by the German Museum Association. Berlin / Leipzig 2011. ISBN 978-3-9811983-9-3
• with H. Gold: The technical museums . In: B. Graf, V. Rodekamp (Hrsg.): Memorandum on the situation of the museums. Berlin 2012, pp. 367-380. ISBN 978-3940939227
• The local pottery from the port of Haithabu (= The excavations in Haithabu. Volume 17) . Neumünster 2013. ISBN 978-3529014178
• 25 years of TECHNOSEUM - nothing is more exciting than technology . Darmstadt 2015. ISBN 978-3806232578

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Hartwig Lüdtke - biography. at the Technoseum