Roman-Germanic Commission

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Palmengartenstrasse 10–12, seat of the Roman-Germanic Commission

The Roman-Germanic Commission ( RGK ) is a department of the German Archaeological Institute based in Frankfurt am Main .

Your task is to research the prehistory and early history in Central Europe. In doing so, it works closely with universities, museums and monument offices and maintains contacts with the relevant specialist institutions abroad.

history

It was founded in 1901 and began operations in Frankfurt on October 1, 1902. The RGK has its seat in a building erected in 1956 by the city of Frankfurt on the Palmengarten. A research center in Ingolstadt , established in 1980 and existing until 2015, served research in Celtic Manching and in Central Bavaria during Roman times.

Eszter Bánffy has been the first director since 2013 as the first woman and the first non-German, and Kerstin P. Hofmann has been the second director since May 2016 . The Association for the Promotion of the Roman-Germanic Commission Friends of Archeology in Europe V. has been supporting the institute's research projects since 2004.

Directors of the Roman-Germanic Commission

Hans Dragendorff (1902–1911)
Emil Ritterling (1911-1914)
Walther Barthel (1914–1915)
Friedrich Koepp (1916–1925)
Friedrich Drexel (1925–1930)
Gerhard Bersu (1931-1935)
Ernst Sprockhoff (1935-1945)
Gerhard Bersu (1950–1956)
Werner Krämer (1956–1972)
Hans Schönberger (1972–1981)
Ferdinand Maier (1981–1990)
Siegmar von Schnurbein (1990-2006)
Friedrich Lüth (2006-2011)
Svend Hansen (acting 2011-2013)
Eszter Bánffy (from 2013)

Current members of the Roman-Germanic Commission

Some of the members are appointed based on their function:

as President of the DAI: Friederike Fless
as the first director of the commission: Eszter Bánffy
as the second director of the commission: Kerstin P. Hofmann
as representative of the Federal Foreign Office: Ronald Münch (Head of the Department of Culture and Communication at the Federal Foreign Office)
as representative of the Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main: Egon Wamers ( Archaeological Museum Frankfurt )
as General Director of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum : Falko Daim

The other members are personally elected at the annual meetings:

literature

Twenty-five years of the Roman-Germanic Commission. Berlin 1930
Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the Roman-Germanic Commission. Mainz 1979
100 years of the Roman-Germanic Commission. The 100th anniversary of the Roman-Germanic Commission on October 25th and 26th, 2002. Mainz 2003
Uta von Freeden , Siegmar von Schnurbein (ed.) For the Roman-Germanic Commission: Traces of the Millennia. Archeology and History in Germany. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1337-2 (extensive volume that was published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the commission)

Magazines

Germania. Bulletin of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute . ISSN 0016-8874
Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission (abbreviated: BerRGK). ISSN 0341-9312

Web links

Homepage of the Roman-Germanic Commission
Literature from and about the Roman-Germanic Commission in the catalog of the German National Library
Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission in Open Access at the Propylaeum-eJournals
Germania in Open Access at the Propylaeum eJournals
Report on the progress of Roman-Germanic research digitized from Heidelberg University Library