Siegfried Fuchs

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Siegfried Carl Georg Fuchs (born April 28, 1903 in Heppenheim ; † 1978 ) was a German bookbinder and archaeologist .

Life

Bookbinder

Siegfried Fuchs was a son of the chemist Dr. Siegfried Fuchs and his wife Anna, b. Fright. After attending secondary school in Schwetzingen, Mannheim and Heppenheim and graduating in 1921, he attended the Offenbach School of Applied Arts from 1921 to 1924 , where he was a student of the specialist classes for book binding with Ignatz Wiemeler and for lettering and book graphics with Rudolf Koch . In 1924 he passed the bookbinder's assistant examination at the Darmstadt Chamber of Crafts. He then worked as a bookbinder in Helene Fanck's workshop in Stuttgart. In 1925 he became a bookbinding teacher at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule Kassel , and in 1929 he passed the examination as a master bookbinder at the Kassel Chamber of Crafts. From 1930 he worked as a bookbinding teacher at the Vallianios trade school in Lixouri on the Greek island of Kefalonia . He also published on bookbinding.

archaeologist

In 1932 he returned to Germany and began to study Classical Archeology, Art History, Ancient History, Prehistory and Classical Philology at the University of Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate on a prehistoric topic in 1935; the dissertation speakers were Arnold von Salis and Ernst Wahle . On January 1, 1936, he became an assistant at the Rome department of the German Archaeological Institute , and in 1937 he became a speaker and head of the photo library. He made a steep career, whereby his National Socialist activities were helpful. Fuchs joined the SA in 1933 and the NSDAP in 1936, in 1937 he became a local group leader of the NSDAP / AO in Rome, and in 1940 deputy regional group leader of the National Group Italy of the NSDAP. In this context his appointment as 2nd secretary (= director) of the Rome department of the German Archaeological Institute under Armin von Gerkan on April 1, 1938 must be seen. He was scientifically active in Italy in the field of "Germanic research" with studies on the Ostrogoths and Lombards . From 1938 he worked intensively with the SS ancestors . In August 1939, in his capacity as SS-Obersturmführer, he represented Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler at the 6th International Congress for Archeology. He carried out excavations in 1942 in the so-called "Palace of Theodoric" in Galeata .

In August 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, spent ten months in North Africa and then returned to Rome. On July 19, 1943, he reported the plans for Mussolini's planned deposition to Berlin. From August 1943 to July 1, 1944, he was in the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer in the 16th SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Reichsführer SS" and was last deployed to Corsica. At the end of 1943 he received his habilitation at the University of Erlangen and was appointed lecturer there in 1944. It was to him that the suggestion for the “Führer's order” for the removal of the DAI library from Rome in December 1943 goes back.

After the end of the Second World War he was in Italy from 1945 to at least 1947 as a prisoner of war. In 1952 he returned to Germany, but was never able to work as an archaeologist again, he "disappeared from science".

Fonts (selection)

  • The Greek Find Groups of the Early Bronze Age and their Foreign Relations . Junker and Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1937 (dissertation).
  • The Lombard gold leaf crosses . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1938.
  • Art of the Ostrogoth time . De Gruyter, Berlin 1944.
  • (edited by Joachim Werner ): The Longobard fibulae from Italy . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1950.

literature

  • Marie Vigener: The "given local group leader"? - an archaeologist in the NSDAP's foreign organization in Rome . In: Das Altertum 55, 2010, pp. 127–142.
  • Thomas Fröhlich : The Study of the Lombards and the Ostrogoths at the German Archaeological Institute of Rome, 1937–1943 . In: Archeology and National Identity in Italy and Europe 1800–1950 (= Fragmenta. Journal of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome 2). Brepols, Turnhout 2008, pp. 183-213 ( digitized version ).
  • Marie Vigener: Siegfried Fuchs (1903–1978) . In: Gunnar Brands , Martin Maischberger (Hrsg.): Lebensbilder. Classical Archaeologists and National Socialism Volume 1, Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden / Westfalen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86757-382-5 , pp. 223-236.

Remarks

  1. ↑ For the stations in his life up to 1930 see curriculum vitae in the dissertation and Walter Passarge : book covers by Siegfried Fuchs . In: Jahrbuch der Einbandkunst Vol. 3/4, 1929/30, pp. 144–148, plates 59-64 with 12 illustrations of his bookbinding work.
  2. ^ Siegfried Fuchs: On the situation of the manual binding within the book production of the present . In: The Form. Zeitschrift für gestaltende Arbeit 4, 1929, pp. 578-582 ( digitized version ); Siegfried Fuchs: Ways out of the present crisis . In: Archiv für Buchbinderei 31, 1931, pp. 19–21.
  3. ^ Day of the oral doctoral examination December 19, 1935.
  4. ↑ See Siegfried Fuchs: The exploration of the Germanic legacies in Italy . In: Report on the VI. International Congress for Archeology Berlin 21.-26. August 1939 . De Gruyter, Berlin 1940, pp. 641-647.
  5. ↑ Annual report of the Archaeological Institute of the German Reich for the financial year 1939/40 . In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1940, SX
  6. ^ Siegfried Fuchs: Galeata - preliminary report . In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1942, pp. 259–277; Siegfried Fuchs: The palace of Theodoric in Galeata near Forli . In: Germania. Monthly booklets for German studies. Journal of all friends of Germanic prehistory 15, 1943, pp. 109–118.
  7. ↑ Katrin Paehler: A mirror of itself. The SD abroad in Italy . In: Michael Wild (Ed.): Intelligence Service, Political Elite and Murder Unit. The security service of the Reichsführer SS . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2003, p. 264 ( Google Books ); Original document .
  8. ^ Carlo Gentile: "Political Soldiers". The 16th SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Reichsführer-SS" in Italy in 1944 . In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 81, 2001, pp. 554–555; Membership number 337 750 .
  9. ↑ Fröhlich 2008, p. 203; Vigener 2012, p. 234.
  10. ↑ Vigener 2012, pp. 234–235.
  11. ↑ The website http://www.germandesigners.net/siegfried_fuchsdesigners/ mixes the data of Siegfried Fuchs with the publications of a "Siegfried E. Fuchs", the author of several books on printing technology and the book industry ( Der Kupferdruck . Bongers, Recklinghausen 1978; Die Lithograph . 1979; The woodcut . 1980; The serigraphy . 1981; The art script . 1982; The perspective . 1983; The picture frame , 1985). In addition to the deviating middle name, these only appeared after the death of Siegfried Fuchs, which makes it clear that we are talking about two people.
  12. ↑ No authors are named on the title page, but they are named in the foreword.
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs, Siegfried Carl Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookbinder, archaeologist and Nazi functionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Heppenheim
DATE OF DEATH 1978