German Society for Prehistory

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The German Society for Prehistory (DGV) was founded in 1909 by the folk archaeologist Gustaf Kossinna with the participation of Hans Hahne , Wilhelm Ohnesorge and others. It should be committed to national research on prehistory and early history and give German archeology as a discipline with historical objectives a broad basis. The first year of the Mannus magazine was published in the year it was founded . In 1913, at an extraordinary general meeting, a large majority decided to change the name to Society for German Prehistory (GDV). After Kossinna's death, Alfred Götze took over the management of the association. In the course of the " Gleichschaltung" , the company's board of directors decided in 1933, at the request of Hans Reinerth , to "expand" to become the Reichsbund for German Prehistory . This decision was confirmed by the general meeting a year later. Also in 1934 Reinerth became federal leader in the Reichsbund, which was attached to the Rosenberg office until 1939 .

In 1968 the association was re-established as the Society for Prehistory (Bonn) by Bolko von Richthofen . He again published a periodical called "Mannus". The people working here, who are predominantly from the right to right-wing extremist spectrum, included the “Atlantis researcher” Jürgen Spanuth , Herman Wirth , Haye W. Hansen and Wilhelm Landig . In 1994 the publication of "Mannus" was stopped after 24 issues.

literature

  • Gunter Schöbel : Hans Reinerth. Researcher - Nazi functionary - museum director . In: Achim Leube / Morton Hegewisch (ed.): Prehistory and National Socialism. Central and Eastern European Prehistory and Early History Research in the years 1933–1945. Studies on the history of science and universities 2 (Heidelberg 2002), pp. 321–396. ISBN 3935025084 .
  • Heinz Grünert: Gustaf Kossinna (1858–1931). From Germanist to prehistoric. A scientist in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic. Prehistoric research 22 (Rahden / Westf. 2002). ISBN 389646504X .
  • Karl Banghard: The DGUF was founded in 1969 as a reaction to the extreme right-wing culture war. In: Archäologische Informations 38 (2015), pp. 433–452

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marc von Lüpke-Schwarz: Archäologen als Ideologen , Die Zeit No. 11/2013 of March 7, 2013.