Walter Ruckdeschel

Walter EW Ruckdeschel (born September 10, 1937 in Munich ) is an archaeologist , environmental scientist and entomologist .

After finishing school in Icking near Munich, Ruckdeschel studied mechanical engineering in Munich, graduating in 1965 with a doctorate in the field of metallurgy , as well as prehistory , Egyptology and ethnology in Munich and Heidelberg .

In 1969 he received his doctorate in archeology from the University of Heidelberg with an expanded version published in 1978 on the Early Bronze Age graves of southern Bavaria. He shows there similarities between the burial customs of the Straubing culture and those of the previous bell- beaker culture and provides a detailed breakdown of the chronology of the Early Bronze Age (level Reinecke A). The naming of the so-called Ries group (2300/2200 to 1800 BC) after the Nördlinger Ries goes back to the name he introduced in 1978 .

After various professional positions in industrial research , he worked at the Bavarian State Ministry for Regional Development and Environment, from 1986 to 1996 he was President of the Bavarian State Office for Environmental Protection .

In addition to publications on topics in the fields of archeology and environmental sciences, he works as an entomologist and was President of the Munich Entomological Society until 2006.

Publications

• Walter Ruckdeschel: The early Bronze Age graves of southern Bavaria. A contribution to the knowledge of the Straubing culture (= Antiquitas. Series 2: Treatises from the field of prehistory and early history. Vol. 11). Habelt, Bonn 1978, ISBN 3-7749-1241-6 (also: Heidelberg, Universität, Dissertation, 1969).