Waldtraut Schrickel

Waldtraut Schrickel (born August 24, 1920 in Gräfentonna , † August 18, 2009 in Dresden ) was a German prehistorian .

Life

Waldtraut Schrickel was born in Gräfentonna in Thuringia and spent her youth in Dresden. She studied history , prehistory and geography in Jena , Königsberg , Munich and Leipzig . In 1944 she did her doctorate at the University of Leipzig in history under Erich Maschke on the subject of German princely daughters in eastern ruling houses of the Middle Ages (Przemyslids, Piasts, Arpaden) . Already during her studies and even after the end of the Second World War , she worked as a teacher. In 1946/47 she passed the state examination . From 1945 she worked at the Prehistoric Museum of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute for Prehistoric Archeology . She initially worked as a volunteer assistant, later as a research worker and as a teaching assistant. When the institute director Gotthard Neumann was temporarily dismissed in the course of denazification , she was responsible for the provisional management of the institute together with Gerhard Mildenberger . In 1947 the professorship was filled with Günter Behm-Blancke . Schrickel now received a position as an assistant with a license to teach. In 1952 he completed his habilitation on the subject of the development of prehistoric rock tools based on the originals in the prehistoric museum of the University of Jena and based on literature . Until 1958 she worked as a lecturer in Jena. In addition, she was responsible for reorganizing the museum and its collection. She also worked as a district floor conservationist.

In April 1958 Schrickel took part in a scientific conference in the Federal Republic of Germany , from which she did not return to the GDR . The new beginning in the West initially brought a career break. She initially worked on excavations for the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn and then in the editorial department of the Roman-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt am Main.In 1961, she received an assistant position at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , after completing her rehabilitation in 1960 was done.

In 1964 she was appointed scientific councilor and in 1967 an adjunct professor , but was not appointed to a chair . After the death of the Heidelberg institute director Vladimir Milojčić in 1978, she took over his duties temporarily. When the position was re-filled in 1980, Schrickel retired early, but continued her editorial work on the prehistoric and early historical archeology of the Mediterranean cultural area and other publications until 2000 .

Schrickel spent the last years of her life in Dresden, where she died a few days before her 89th birthday.

Schrickel was a corresponding member of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute and honorary member of the Romanian Institute for Thracology .

Fonts

• German princely daughters in eastern ruling houses of the Middle Ages (Przemyslids, Piasts, Arpaden) (1944)
• The development of prehistoric rock tools based on the originals in the Prehistory Museum of the University of Jena and based on literature (1952)
• Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part 1: Text (1957)
• Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part 2: Catalog (1957)
• Western European elements in the Neolithic grave construction of Central Germany and the gallery graves of West Germany and their inventories (1966)
• Catalog of the Central German graves with Western European elements and the gallery graves of Western Germany (1966)
• The finds from the Wartberg in Hesse (1969)
• On the early historical animal and ribbon ornamentation. Vol. 1. Similarities and differences in the Franconian and Alemannic regions (1980)
• Solnhofen, Solabasilika and Propstei. Establishment and development of a church center (1987)

literature

• Andrea Bräuning: Professors in Prehistory and Early History. Gender and archeology . In: Archäologische Informations 35 (2012), pp. 23–37, doi: 10.11588 / ai.2012.0.10040 .
• Andrea Bräuning: Against forgetting - professors in archeology (prehistory and early history). In: Jennifer M. Bagley et al. (Ed.): Alps, Cult and Iron Age. Festschrift for Amei Lang on his 65th birthday. Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden 2009, ISBN 978-3-89646-430-9 , pp. 3–24.
• Joseph Maran : Obituary. Waldtraut Schrickel (08/24/1920– 08/18/2009). In: Prehistoric Journal. Volume 85, Issue 2, 2011, pp. 273-276.
• Joseph Maran: Waldtraut Schrickel (1920–2009). In: Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt. Volume 15, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 87-88.

Web links

• Literature by Waldtraut Schrickel in the catalog of the German National Library
• The institute mourns the loss of Prof. Dr. phil. Waldtraut Schrickel