Heinz Arno Knorr

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Heinz Arno Knorr (born June 9, 1909 in Kiel , † October 22, 1996 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German prehistoric expert who had made a name for himself in researching the material legacies of the Slavs .

Heinz Arno Knorr grew up in Hanover and Berlin, passed his Abitur in 1929 and began studying prehistory at the University of Berlin in the same year , which he completed with a doctorate in 1934 - including a detour to the University of Prague . His dissertation was entitled The division and dating of Slavic ceramics between the Elbe and Oder on the basis of the coin vessels . The doctoral supervisor was Wilhelm Unverzagt , the second reviewer was Walther Vogel . Knorr had already joined the SA in 1933 and became a member of the NSDAP in 1938 . Between February 1935 and March 1938 he was a scholarship holder, then assistant to the German Association for the Maintenance and Promotion of Research at the University of Berlin and Heidelberg University . In 1940 he became a research assistant at the State Office for Prehistory of the Province of Brandenburg . In the same year he was called up and was a participant in the war until 1945. He took part in the German-Soviet War and received several awards. In 1941 he was awarded the Winter Battle in the East 1941/42 medal , the Iron Cross II class in 1943 , the Iron Cross I class in 1944 and the pioneer badge. After three weeks in American captivity, he was released and initially worked as a farm worker. During the war, Knorr lost all of its scientific documents.

After the war, Knorr became a museum officer at the Ministry for Public Education of Saxony-Anhalt . In 1947 he joined the SED . In 1950 he became director of the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg in Halle as well as state museum curator. From 1951 to 1954 Knorr was the head of the state commission of nature and homeland friends. In 1954 he became director of the central specialist office for local museums at the Ministry of Culture, and in 1957 lecturer for prehistory , museum studies and cultural history at the University of Halle . From 1958 to 1961 he was also editor-in-chief of the journal Neue Museumskunde . In July 1961, Knorr was an indirect successor to Gerhard Mildenberger, and was entrusted with a professorship for prehistory and early history as well as museum studies at the University of Leipzig . From 1965 to 1967 he was vice dean for research at the Philosophical Faculty, from 1966 to 1974 he was also director of the Institute for Prehistory , after having been a provisional institute since 1963, and from 1969 until his retirement in 1974 he was Associate Professor for Ur- and early history at the history section of the university. His successor Edith Hoffmann did not become a professor until 1979 .

Knorr was a member of many museum bodies in the GDR, and several museums were founded on his initiative. Since 1959 he was a member of the scientific advisory board for the scientific museum system and the German Historians Society (later: Historians Society of the GDR ), since 1965 of the National Committee for Prehistory and Early History at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . He has received several awards in the GDR, the most important here being the Johannes R. Becher Medal, awarded in 1962, and the Badge of Honor awarded by the Karl Marx University of Leipzig in 1974. Scientifically, he dealt in particular with the Slavic culture.

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  • Slavic ceramics between the Elbe and the Oder. Classification and timing based on the coin vessels. With a brief outline of the early medieval ceramics. Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1937 (Mannus library, volume 58)
  • Inventory and collection in the local museums. Department for local museums, Halle (Saale) 1958 (technical and methodical instructions for work in local museums, issue 1958)
  • Setting up historical exhibitions in the museums. Department for local museums, Halle (Saale) 1960 (technical and methodical instructions for work in local museums, 1960 issue 2)
  • Publisher: Handbook of the museums and scientific collections in the German Democratic Republic. Department for local museums at the Ministry of Culture, Halle (Saale) 1963
  • Editor: Problems of the early Middle Ages from an archaeological and historical point of view. 3rd meeting of the Prehistory and Protohistory Section of the German Historian Society from April 13-16, 1964 in Leipzig. Academy, Berlin 1966

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SURNAME Knorr, Heinz Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1996
Place of death Halle (Saale)