Otto Wilhelm von Vacano
Otto Wilhelm von Vacano (born May 5, 1910 in Erstein in Alsace , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , † April 20, 1997 in Tübingen ) was a German classical archaeologist who mainly dealt with the history and culture of the Etruscans .
Life
Otto Wilhelm von Vacano studied from 1929 in Vienna and Cologne Ancient History , Classics and Classical Archeology and was in 1936 Andreas Rumpf in Cologne with a dissertation on the problem of the Old Temple of Zeus in Olympia doctorate .
Vacano was already active in Nazi organizations before the National Socialists came to power . He was a member of the Hitler Youth , which he left as Oberbannführer . In 1931 Vacano joined the National Socialist German Student Union , then in 1932 with the SA and in 1933 with the NSDAP . From 1934 he was the head of the main department for leadership training in the staff of the Reich Youth Leader , from 1939 to 1943 he was a lecturer at the Educational Academy of the Adolf Hitler School in Sonthofen, of which he was acting director in 1943/44. Vacano was a member of the task force of Reichsleiter Rosenberg , which systematically confiscated cultural treasures in the areas occupied by the Wehrmacht.
In 1944 he presented the philosophy faculty of the University of Graz with the habilitation thesis Lelegia , a Stone Age settlement on the Kufówuno near Sparta . From 1961 to 1975 von Vacano was curator of the antique collection of the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Tübingen . Vacanos' specialty was the archeology of the Etruscans. In this area he was considered an international capacity. Since von Vacano there has been a professorship for Etruscology at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Tübingen .
On October 25, 1951, the widower married Prof. Dr. von Vacano, whose first wife Erna Bohlmann died completely unexpectedly on May 24, 1950, the war widow Juliane Wrede, nee. Engelhardt, daughter of Major General Philipp Engelhardt (* 1866). The couple had one child together, Juliane had brought two children from her marriage to John Ludwig Alfred Franz-Otto Wrede (1912–1945), while von Vacano brought six from his first marriage.
Fonts (selection)
- (Mithrsg.) Sparta. The struggle for life of a Nordic gentry class (= workbook of the Adolf Hitler schools ). Kempten 1940.
- Under the sign of the Sphinx. Greece in the VII century. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1952.
- The Etruscans. Becoming and spiritual world. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1955.
- The Etruscans in the ancient world. Hamburg 1957.
- The Talamonaccio. Old and new problems (= Biblioteca di Studi Etruschi 17). Olschki, Florence 1988, ISBN 88-222-3606-8 .
literature
- Martin Miller: Otto Wilhelm von Vacano (1910-1997). In: Gunnar Brands , Martin Maischberger (Hrsg.): Lebensbilder. Classical archaeologists and National Socialism. Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rhaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-86757-382-5 , pp. 237-252 ( online ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Wilhelm von Vacano in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual (= Education and Science Edition. Vol. 10). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2006, p. 481 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vacano, Otto Wilhelm von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist with a focus on Etruscology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erstein in Alsace |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1997 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |