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Werner Haarnagel (born December 7, 1907 in Torgau , † August 3, 1984 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German archaeologist and geographer .

Life

After completing school in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg , he began studying geography , geology, oceanography as well as history and prehistory at the University of Hamburg in 1930 . He received his doctorate there in 1934 and then worked at various museums in Lower Saxony .

From 1938 he built up the provincial office for marshland research in Hanover , which was relocated to Wilhelmshaven in 1947. He had previously been drafted into military service in 1942, and was only released from captivity in 1945. In 1949 he became custodian and head of the state office, and in 1961 he became department director at the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover. Finally, in 1964, he became director of the now independent Lower Saxony State Institute for Marshland Research , today's Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research . He headed the institute until 1973.

As early as 1968 he was appointed honorary professor at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1970 he was one of the founding members of the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony .

He was also a member or chairman of a number of archaeological committees, such as the Roman-Germanic Commission or the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen .

The Prime Minister of Lower Saxony awarded him the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit . In 2006, the city of Wilhelmshaven named a street Werner-Haarnagel-Weg .

Research activities

Haarnagel has been involved in a number of well-known excavation and research projects. The focus was on the Wurtendörfer in the marshes of the North Sea coast region early on . Examples include the excavations in Butjadingen , on the Wurt Hessens and in the city center of Emden .

His excavations on the Feddersen-Wierde from 1954 to 1963 were trend -setting. For the first time, a prehistoric Wurt settlement could be almost completely uncovered and comprehensively documented. The integration of scientific methods into the excavations is also considered exemplary to this day. Statements about the development of the Wurt as well as its economic and social structure could be made. In 1958 he examined the Heidenschanze near Sievern .

Haarnagel is considered to be one of the founders of modern settlement archeology . His archaeological survey of the old Wesermünde district is considered exemplary . This later became the first district with a full-time district archaeologist.

literature

• Peter Schmid: Obituary for Werner Haarnagel December 7, 1907 - August 3, 1984. In: The customer. NF 36, 1985, ISSN  0342-0736 , pp. 387-390.

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Haarnagel in the catalog of the German National Library