Heinz Amberger

Georg Philipp Heinrich "Heinz" Amberger (born March 30, 1907 in Oberstein an der Nahe, † August 24, 1974 in Mannheim ) was a German prehistorian .

Life

Born the son of a surgeon , Amberger studied in Jena , Vienna and Heidelberg after attending a grammar school in Frankfurt am Main . During his studies in 1925 he became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity ; later he became a member of the Germania Saarbrücken fraternity in 1951 . In Heidelberg he became a member of the Stahlhelm in 1929 . In Vienna he was a student of the prehistoric researcher Oswald Menghin . He was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . Since 1932 he worked for the national magazine Die Sonne . From 1931 to 1934 he was a volunteer at the Hessisches Landesmuseum . He was a member of the SA , in 1933 as senior squad leader , but left in 1934 to continue his research. From 1935 to 1938 he was a research assistant at the Prehistory Department of the State Museum for Mineralogy, Geology and Prehistory in Dresden . He finished his military service as an officer candidate , and in 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP . From 1938 to 1945 he was curator of the historical collections of the city of Düsseldorf . In 1938 he became a member of the SA storm riders 7/75, then resigned as untersturmführer for SS on (leader in the Race and Settlement Main Office, SS RuSHA - noisy SSO act in the NARA ). Called up for infantry in 1939 , he switched to parachute troops in 1940 and was last employed as first lieutenant during World War II . In 1941/42 he completed his habilitation at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin under Hans Reinerth . After American prisoner of war in the camp Heilbronn , he was in 1945 retired because of his war wounds. From 1958 to 1974 he was head of a works archive and a works library in Frankenthal . There he was managing director of the adult education center from 1956 to 1959 and in 1957 re-founded the antiquity association as chairman. He was also the re-founder of the Erkenbert Museum and since 1959 editorial staff, then 1964 to 1970 editor of the Frankenthal magazine . Then and now. In 1949 he called the Burschenschaftliche Blätter back to life and was its chief editor until 1958 .

Publications

• On the origin and distribution of the mixed Rhenish culture of the Iron Age. In: Mannus . Vol. 24, 1932, pp. 420-445, (dissertation).
• as editor: Burschenschaftliches Arbeitsbuch. Published on the 140th anniversary of the foundation of the German Burschenschaft. Work Society for Burschenschaftliche historical research, Frankfurt am Main 1955.
• The city of Franckenthal. Highlights from the Frankenthal city history. Meininger, Neustadt 1962.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume 1: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 11-13.