Karl Heinz Brandt (archaeologist)

Karl Heinz Brandt (born March 25, 1922 in Herne ; † September 25, 2014 in Bremen ) was a German archaeologist and state archaeologist from Bremen.

Life

Brandt grew up as the son of the founder and director of the Emschertal Museum in Herne and self-taught researcher and publicist of the prehistory and early history of the Emscher / Lippe region, Karl Brandt . After graduating from school in Herne and doing military service with subsequent imprisonment, he studied prehistory , geology and anthropology at the University of Kiel and the University of Münster . In 1953 he received his doctorate in Kiel under Ernst Sprockhoff with a thesis on the subject of studies of stone axes and hatchets of the Younger Stone Age and the Stone Copper Age of Northwest Germany .

After the long-time director of the Focke Museum Ernst Grohne retired in 1953, Brandt, a trained archaeologist, was appointed head of department for the prehistoric and early historical collection for the first time in 1954 under the director Werner Kloos . During his service there were numerous excavations, the preparation and adoption of the Bremen Monument Protection Act in 1975 and in 1983 the state archeology, of which he was deputy director from 1971 to 1973, moved out of the Focke Museum into its own building ensemble.

From 1975 to 1987 he became the first state archaeologist in Bremen . Associated with this were teaching assignments at the University of Bremen .

As early as 1974, the excavations in Bremen Cathedral , which he carried out during the major renovation against the resistance of the cathedral community, caused a general sensation and national attention. Their finds are exhibited next to the Focke Museum in the Dom-Museum (Bremen) , which was founded in 1987 .

Since 1960 he was in charge of the new edition of the Bremer Archäologische Blätter and co-founder, long-time chairman and board member of the Bremen Society for Prehistory , of which he later became honorary chairman. Karl Heinz Brandt was a personal member of the Wittheit zu Bremen , a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and a member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen .

Fonts (selection)

• For archaeological research on the Middle Ages in Bremen. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 71 (1992) pp. 191–222
• Excavations in the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen. Vol. 2. The graves of the Middle Ages and early modern times. Stuttgart (1988)
• with Friedrich Schumacher: The Bremen Cathedral: Restoration and excavations 1972-1982. Bremen (1982) As: Schriften der Wittheit zu Bremen / NF 8
• Excavations in the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen 1974-76: A preliminary report, Bremen (1977)
• A settlement from the Roman Iron Age on the Mühlenberg in Bremen-Rekum. Bremisches Jahrbuch 62, 1984, pp. 172-174.
• Excavations in the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen 1974-76. Bremen (1976)
• Excavations in the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen. (2002). In: Heiden und Christians - Slavic missions in the Middle Ages pp. 9–27
• Ethnic Diversity on the Weser: Settlement and Grave Field Bremen-Mahndorf (1999). In: On all fronts. Northwest Germany between Augustus and Charlemagne. Pp. 113-133
• Remarks on the dating and identification of archbishop's graves in the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 78 (1999) pp. 23–41. [1]
• Traces of prehistoric people. (1995). In: Haltermann, Seebergen pp. 7-14
• Archaeological survey in Bremen: monuments and finds of selected districts. (1995-1996). In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 74/75 (1995/96) pp. 266–295 [2]
• Archaeological survey in Bremen. Monuments and finds from selected districts. Part II. (1994). In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 73 (1994) pp. 280–307 [3]
• Archaeological survey in Bremen: monuments and finds of selected districts. Part I. (1993). In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 72 (1993) pp. 197–226 [4]
• In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 66 (1988) pp. 453–474 [5]
• New excavations and finds in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1985. (1986). In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 64 (1986) pp. 249–280 [6]
• New excavations and finds in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1984. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Bd. 63 (1985) pp. 117-142. [7]
• New excavations and finds in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1983. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 62 (1984) pp. 165–190. [8th]
• New excavations and finds in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1981 and 1982. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 60/61 (1982/83) pp. 205–228. [9]
• New excavations in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1980. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 59 (1981) pp. 163–176. [10]
• New excavations and finds in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1979. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 58 (1980) pp. 243–266 [11]
• New excavations and finds in Bremen (1978). In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 57 (1979) pp. 317–334. [12]
• New excavations and finds in Bremen (1977). In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 56 (1978) pp. 217–234 [13]
• New excavations and finds in Bremen (1976). In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 55 (1977) pp. 337–362 [14]
• New excavations and finds in Bremen (1975). In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Vol. 54 (1976) pp. 285–291 [15]
• Issendorf. An urn cemetery from the late Imperial and Migration Periods. 1: The results of the excavation in 1967. In: Prehistoric Journal Vol. 51 (1976) pp. 106-109
• with Margareta Nockert excavations in the Bremen St. Petri Cathedral 1974-1976. A find report. In: Bremer archäologische Blätter Vol. 7 (1976) pp. 1-98
• On the Carolingian and Ottonian building history of the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen. In: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt Vol. 6 (1976) p. 327ff.
• Archbishop's graves in Bremen's St. Petri Cathedral. In: Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters Vol. 4 (1976) pp. 7–28
• Studies of stone axes and hatchets from the Younger Stone Age and the Stone-Copper Age in northwest Germany. As: Münstersche Beit. z. Before u. Mornings Volume 2, Hildesheim (1967)

literature

• List of publications by Karl Heinz Brandt. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch vol. 65 (1987) pp. 141–150 ( full text ).
• Karl Heinz Brandt - 70 years. In: Bremer Archäologische Blätter NF 2, 1992/93 (1993), p. VI. ( Full text ).