Theodor Benecke (local history researcher)

Theodor Benecke (born October 20, 1870 in Hohnstorf ; † May 28, 1929 ) was a German teacher , local researcher , conservator and first director of the Helms Museum in Hamburg-Harburg , the forerunner of the Hamburg Archaeological Museum .

Life

Theodor was born in 1870 as the son of the teacher August Benecke in Hohnstorf in the Lüneburg district. In 1896 he moved to Harburg, where he took up a position as a primary school teacher. In 1898 he was one of the founders of the Harburg Museum Association and helped build the Helms Museum. In addition to his main job as a teacher, Benecke initially worked part-time under Albert Otto Gerber as a deputy curator at the Helms Museum. After Gerber's death, Benecke took over the position of curator. Benecke carried out numerous excavations of prehistoric burial grounds in the Harburg district and devoted himself intensively to the local history of Harburg. Through this research, the expanded the museum's holdings and shaped the archaeological orientation of the museum. On November 5, 1923, he was given the post of director of the museum. At the suggestion of Harburg's mayor Walter Dudek , Benecke was dismissed from school on December 1, 1925 in order to be able to devote himself full-time to the development and management of the Helms Museum. Under Theodor Benecke's direction, the Helms Museum was expanded into a modern museum. Theodor Benecke died of a stroke on May 28, 1929 .

Works

Old Wilhelmsburg . Schüthe, Wilhelmsburg 1912.
as editor with Otto Benecke: Lüneburger Heimatbuch. 2 volumes (Vol. 1: Land and economic life. Vol. 2: People and spiritual life. ). Lower Saxony-Verlag Carl Schünemann, Bremen 1914.
Historical news about Moorburg, Finkenwärder, Altenwerder, Lauenbruch, Ochsenwärder, Moorwärder, the Alteland, etc. s. w. Kröger, Blankenese 1919 ( online ).
Historical-topographical news about the former Moisburg office. Lühmann, Harburg 1908.

literature

Rüdiger Articus: The "forgotten" founder . In: Helms-Museum Aktuell . No. June 22 , 2011, ZDB -ID 2379539-6 , p. 1–2 ( digital version (PDF; 692 KB) [accessed October 5, 2017]).

Web links

Helms-Museum - Back to the roots ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), from March 24, 2011, on han-online.de

Individual evidence

^ Rüdiger Articus: The "forgotten" founder . In: Helms-Museum Aktuell . No. June 22 , 2011, p. 1–2 ( digital version (PDF; 692 KB) [accessed October 5, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Benecke, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German teacher, local researcher and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH	October 20, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hohnstorf (Elbe)
DATE OF DEATH	May 28, 1929

[1] Rüdiger Articus: The "forgotten" founder . In: Helms-Museum Aktuell . No. June 22 , 2011, p. 1–2 ( digital version (PDF; 692 KB) [accessed October 5, 2017]).