Karl Heinz Wagner (archaeologist)

Karl Heinz Wagner (born July 10, 1907 in Neunkirchen , † February 6, 1944 near Narwa ) was a German prehistorian .

Wagner grew up in Hersfeld and studied forest sciences after graduating from high school before studying art history and archeology in Munich. He graduated with a doctorate from Gero von Merhart in Marburg in 1934 , after having previously completed semesters in Kiel , Berlin , Vienna and Innsbruck . His dissertation was on "North Tyrolean Urn Fields". This term was the basis for the term North Tyrolean Urnfield Culture, which is used today . During his studies he got to know Paul Reinecke , Gerhard Bersu and Georg Kraft and was involved in various projects. In 1935 he took up a position at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , where he was responsible for the preservation of monuments in the Koblenz administrative district. His excavations in the Neolithic earthworks of Urmitz and in the early medieval settlement of Neuwied-Gladbach should be mentioned . In 1937 he moved to the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation in Munich as a curator .

During the Second World War , Wagner was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1939 and died in Russia .

Fonts

• North Tyrolean urn fields . de Gruyter, Berlin 1943 ( Roman-Germanic research , vol. 15).
• The Celtic Wall of Manching . In: Germania , Volume 22, 1938, pp. 157-160.
• Investigations on the ramparts of the late Celtic city of Manching . In: Bavarian History Leaflets , Volume 16, 1942, pp. 10-20.

literature

• Wolfgang Dehn: Karl Heinz Wagner. In: Badische Fundberichte , Volume 18, 1948–50, pp. 24 ff.