Heinrich Rempel

Heinrich Rempel (born June 14, 1901 in Rummelsburg , Pomerania, † July 12, 1978 in Apolda ) was a German prehistoric expert who made lasting contributions to the development of medieval archeology in Central Germany .

Heinrich Rempel studied prehistory , history and geology at the University of Jena with Gotthard Neumann and graduated in 1940 with a dissertation on "The row grave cultures of the early Middle Ages in the Gau Thuringia". He had been a research assistant at the Germanic Museum at the University of Jena since 1937 . Rempel was in the SA from July 1, 1933 to March 31, 1935 , and had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1937. During the Second World War he served in the Wehrmacht as a private , including on the Eastern Front.

After the end of the war he returned to Jena and worked as an assistant at the Prehistory Museum of the Friedrich Schiller University, Institute for Prehistoric Archeology . In December 1945 he was dismissed from service under the Soviet Military Administration of Thuringia (SMATh) due to his NSDAP membership. Later he worked at the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle and from 1950 at the Institute for Prehistory of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, where he mainly devoted himself to research on archeology of the Middle Ages. In 1966 he retired. Heinrich Rempel died on July 12, 1978 in Apolda.

His best-known works include the monograph on the "Row graveyards of the 8th to 11th centuries from Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia", which emerged from his dissertation and published in 1966, as well as essays on Saalfeld / Saale and the organ area in the early Middle Ages, on Slavic ceramics and the development of riding accessories such as spurs and stirrups .

Selection of the scientific work of Rempel

• The "Slavic" steep ridges in Thuringia, a German type . Der Spatenforscher 4, 1939, pp. 42-48.
• An early German equestrian grave from the Henfstädt district, Hildburghausen district. Mannus 32, 1940, 314-320.
• New finds from the older Iron Age from the Oschersleben district. Treatises and reports for natural history and prehistory Magdeburg 8 H. 8, 1950, pp 115–117.
• To the riding spurs of Hildagsburg. In: Hans Dunker: The Hildagsburg . The castle wall of Elbeu, Kr. Wolmirstedt. Treatises and reports for natural history and prehistory Magdeburg 8 Hf. 5, 1953, pp. 191–233.
• Carolingian period. Excavations and Finds 3, 1958, p. 278 ...
• The Middle Slavic period in the south of the GDR (Sorbs). Excavations and Finds 3, 1958, p. 287 ...
• Early German ceramics in Thuringia. Prehistoric Journal 37, 1959, pp. 101-124.
• Sorbian ceramics in Thuringia. Prehistoric Journal 37, 1959, pp. 175-186.
• Saalfeld and the Orlagau in prehistoric times. In: Coburg in the middle of the Reich II (Kallmünz / Opf. 1961) pp. 5–30.
• To the eastern border of the Franconian Empire Thuringian share. Alt-Thüringen 6, 1963, pp. 506-513.
• Early stirrups from central Germany. In: Paul Grimm (Ed.): Varia Archaeologica . Festschrift Wilhelm Unverzagt. German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, publications of the Section for Prehistory and Early History 16 (Berlin 1964).
• Row graveyards from the 8th to 11th centuries from Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Writings of the section for preliminary and Early History 20 (Berlin 1966).
• The archaeological-cultural allocation of prehistoric finds west of the Saale. Zeitschrift für Archäologie 2, 1968, pp. 68-103.

Obituaries and tributes

• Small messages. Deaths. In: Excavations and Funde 24, 1979, p. 52.
• Werner Gall: Brief biographical data on prehistorians, collectors, volunteers and other people with significance for the archeology and local history of South Thuringia. First delivery. Messages from the community of the Steinsburgfreunde New Series Vol. 4. Hf. 5 Volume 6, 2002, p. 50 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Rempel in the catalog of the German National Library