Reinhold Strenger

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Reinhold Strenger (* 1903 in Schwäbisch Hall ; † after 1966) was a German classical archaeologist and administrative officer.

Life

Reinhold Strenger first completed a commercial apprenticeship at WMF in Göppingen. From 1927 he studied classical archeology and art history at the University of Berlin , was a research assistant at the Antikensammlung in Berlin from 1932 to 1936 and received his doctorate in 1936. In 1936/37 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . From 1938 he only found odd jobs. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . After the outbreak of war against the USSR, as a war administrative assessor, he was entrusted with the task of protecting collections and monuments there from damage and robbery. He also worked for the main working group of the Reichsleiter Rosenberg task force in Russia. As a result of the Brauchitsch crisis, he was released at the end of 1941. After that he was temporarily employed at the Berlin-Dahlem Publication Office. In 1942/43 he was drafted again and in May 1945 was taken prisoner by Russia. At the beginning of December 1945 he returned to Munich . On April 28, 1946, he became a member of the SPD and subsequently an unskilled worker in the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance . At the beginning of August 1946 he was accepted as an art historian in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture . There he was entrusted with the implementation of the Control Council Directive No. 30 (removal of German monuments and museums of a military and National Socialist character) from September 21, 1946 . In this context, he was also responsible for dealing with the Nazi buildings on Königsplatz.

He was then assigned by the ministry to the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg as a scientific assistant and left there on June 30, 1949 when his employment contract expired. In 1966 he was a member of the board of directors in Ingolstadt .

literature

Publications

  • On the problem of space in Greek gable sculptures . Dissertation Berlin 1942.

Remarks

  1. Official date of the doctorate March 17, 1942.
  2. Annual report of the Archaeological Institute of the German Empire for the financial year 1936/37 , p. II.
  3. Corinna Kuhr Korolev et al. a .: Robbery and rescue. Russian museums in World War II . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-50188-4 , p. 40.77f. 90, 231, 235.
  4. Corinna Kuhr-Korolev and a .: Robbery and rescue. Russian museums in World War II . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-50188-4 , p. 237, note 430.
  5. Irmtraut Eder-Stein: Publication Office Berlin-Dahlem 1931-1945: holdings R 153 . Federal Archives 2003, p. 80.
  6. Peter Kopf: The Königsplatz in Munich. A German place . Links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-372-3 , p. 180
  7. ^ Annual report Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg 1950, p. 131.
  8. ^ The Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 69, Issue 1, 1966, p. 248.