Klaus Goldmann

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Klaus Goldmann (born April 29, 1936 in Guben ; † December 16, 2019 in Neumünster ) was a German prehistoric scientist .

Klaus Goldmann first studied industrial engineering before moving to prehistory, early history, Near Eastern antiquity , Egyptology and ethnology in 1963 , which he studied at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Cologne . He received his doctorate in 1970 with a thesis on the topic of chronological grouping in the Older Bronze Age at Cologne University. From 1971 he worked for the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin . There he was appointed custodian in 1973 and senior custodian in 1978. In 1974 he also became head of the construction and expansion of the Düppel museum village . In 1986/87 Goldmann was released from museum service in order to be able to research the relocation history of Berlin's museums and collections during and after the Second World War . In 1993 he became a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Museum Commission and in 1994 was a member of the delegation of the Berlin museums to the Pushkin Museum in Moscow , where some of the looted art could be examined. In 2001 he retired.

Goldmann began his scientific work with research on the Bronze Age, in particular the seriation of finds, but in the 1980s and 1990s he turned more and more to the history of the Prehistoric Collections in Berlin, especially the losses in the course of the Second World War. In addition, he researched, for example, the Berlin Gold Hat and, together with Günter Wermusch, presented a new localization theory for the sunken place Vineta . Goldmann was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1995 for his services to German cultural assets .

As a student, Goldmann was a founding member of the " German Society for Pre- and Early History " (DGUF) on October 25, 1969

Fonts (selection)

  • The seriation of chronological key finds from the Bronze Age in Europe (= Berlin contributions to prehistory and early history. NF 1). Spiess, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-88435-010-2 .
  • with Günter Wermusch : Destroyed, lost, marketed. Art treasures in the sights of politics and business. Mut, Asendorf 1992, ISBN 3-89182-048-8 .
  • with Geraldine Saherwala and Gustav Mahr: Heinrich Schliemann's "Collection of Trojan Antiquities". Contributions to the chronicle of a major acquisition by the Berlin museums (= Berlin contributions to prehistory and early history. NF 7). Spiess, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89166-141-X .
  • with Wolfgang Schneider: The gold of Priam. Story of an odyssey. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-378-01002-9 .
  • with Christine Reich: Museum of Prehistory and Early History. (Directory of the holdings of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History missing since 1945) (= National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. Documentation of the losses. Vol. 4). State Museums - Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88609-332-8 .
  • with Günter Wermusch: Vineta. The rediscovery of a sunken city. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1999, ISBN 3-7857-0987-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Schäfer: Hunt for Schliemann Gold: Klaus Goldmann on the search for the lost treasure of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in divided Berlin . January 13, 2017
  2. ^ Founding document of the DGUF with Goldmann's signature, www.dguf.de; accessed on August 8, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Goldmann, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric and medieval archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Guben
DATE OF DEATH 16th December 2019
Place of death Neumunster