Kurt Tackenberg

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Kurt Walter August Tackenberg (born June 30, 1899 in Tschammendorf , Kr. Neumarkt / Silesia (today: Samborz ), † November 10, 1992 in Münster ) was a German prehistoric scientist .

Life

After military service in World War I , he studied from 1919 to 1923 in Breslau with Hans Segers and in Rostock . During his studies in 1919 he became a member of the Leopoldina Breslau singers . In 1925 he was with a thesis on the Vandals in Lower Silesia doctorate . From 1923 to 1929 he was an assistant at the Museum of Applied Arts and Antiquities in Wroclaw. In 1927/28 he received a travel grant from the Roman-Germanic Commission and in 1929 came to the Hannover Provincial Museum as custodian . Since 1932 he was a member of the Kampfbund für Deutsche Kultur .

In 1934 he became ao. Professor in Leipzig . From 1938 to 1945 he was a university professor and head of the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory in Bonn and in 1939 dean of the Philosophical Faculty. In 1944 Karl F. Chudoba wanted to appoint him rector of Bonn University. He was a member of the NSDAP (since 1937) and the NS Lecturer Association .

During the Second World War he became a visiting professor in Ghent in 1941 and, from autumn 1942, director of the German Cultural Institute in Brussels , which was subordinate to the military commander and the Foreign Office . As a scientist, Tackenberg cooperated with the " Ahnenerbe ", the scientific organization of the SS , which he wanted to gain for the systematic research of connections between Western and Central European tribes in the Belgium / France area . In 1943/44 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served as a lieutenant until May 1944 .

He belonged to a small group of professors headed by Rector Karl F. Chudoba (to which Erich Feldmann also belonged), who at the beginning of 1945, after the university closed in the winter semester of 1944/45, before the advancing allies with Chudobas, which was regarded as an important military institute relocated to Göttingen. There, even after the occupation of Bonn by US troops, the administration was held with the formation of a separate, self-sufficient rectorate, although the Prorector Theodor Brinkmann, who remained in Bonn, had already negotiated with the occupiers to continue the university's operations.

He was dismissed from the post of professor at the end of the war. From 1955 to 1965 he was a full professor in Münster . He had been a member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1955 and a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig since 1959 . In 1974 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit .

In his research he devoted himself to various areas of prehistory and early history. The focal points result from the listed publications (for a complete list of publications, see Jockenhövel 1996).

Publications (selection)

  • The Vandal in Lower Silesia . Dissertation . In: Prehistoric Research . tape 1 . de Gruyter, Berlin 1925, DNB  571286240 .
  • The culture of the early Iron Age in central and western Hanover. Hildesheim 1934.
  • Teutons and Slavs between 1000 before and 1000 after the beginning of our era . War lectures of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn a. Rh. , Issue 12, 1940.
  • The Beusterburg . A Neolithic earthwork in Lower Saxony. (= Publication of the original collection of the Landesmus. Hannover 13). Hildesheim 1951.
  • The Younger Bronze Age in Northwest Germany - Part I: The Bronzes. Hanover 1971, Part II: The rock stone tools. Hanover 1974.
  • A contribution to the dissemination, timing and workshop production of Hansa bowls. In: Offa. 36, 1979, pp. 145-151.
  • Westphalia in the prehistory of Northwest Germany: Find maps from the Paleolithic to the time around the birth of Christ. Munster 1996.

obituary

  • The customer . NF 44, 1993, pp. 185ff.
  • A. Jockenhövel (Ed.): Kurt Tackenberg (1899–1992) for memory. Munster 1996.

literature

  • Uta Halle : Archeology and " Western Research " . In: Burkhard Dietz, Helmut Gabel, Ulrich Tiedau (eds.): Griff nach dem Westen. The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-west European area (1919-1960) (=  studies on the history and culture of north-west Germany ). tape 6 . Waxmann, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1144-0 , p. 383-406, esp. 388-390 .
  • Studies from old Europe. Festschrift for Kurt Tackenberg. (= Bonner Jahrb. Beih. 10). 2 volumes. Böhlau, Cologne 1964, DNB 560954972 .
  • Festgabe Kurt Tackenberg for his 75th birthday. Habelt, Bonn 1974, ISBN 3-7749-1316-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 23.
  2. ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Even in war the muses are not silent": the German Scientific Institutes in World War II . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35357-X , p. 257 .
  3. ^ Story (s): On a lost outpost In: forsch ”- Bonner Universitätsnachrichten. 1/2009, p. 35.
  4. ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann: "Even in war the muses are not silent": the German Scientific Institutes in World War II . 2. through Edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-35181-X .