Wilhelm Gebers
Wilhelm Gebers (born November 3, 1944 in Holsthum ) is a German prehistorian who focuses on settlement archeology.
Career
Wilhelm Gebers grew up in the southern Eifel near the Luxembourg border. As a schoolboy he discovered new sites. In 1966 he graduated from high school and studied prehistory and early history , Middle Eastern archeology and geology in Saarbrücken and Kiel . From 1973 to 1979 he worked as a scientist at the Institute for Pre- and Protohistory at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in a special research area on Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea region . In 1974 Gebers received his doctorate from Rolf Hachmann on the end of the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age in the Middle Rhine region .
In 1979 Wilhelm Gebers switched from university research to monument preservation and went to the newly founded Institute for Monument Preservation in Hanover , the forerunner of the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation . There he became head of department, whose main tasks included settlement research and the Middle Ages . On a provisional basis, he took on the task of district archeology for the administrative district of Lüneburg . In 2005, Gebers took over the archeology of the former administrative district of Hanover as a further task . He retired in 2009.
In 1999, on the initiative of Wilhelm Gebers, the Circle of Friends for Archeology in Lower Saxony was founded and he was chairman until 2016. In 2006 he and members of the club recovered the bronze bucket from Sasendorf . The inclusion of civic engagement in the preservation of archaeological monuments is important to Gebers .
Individual examinations
During his studies, Gebers gained extensive excavation experience at home and abroad. He took part in excavations for the Landesmuseum Trier , in Saarland , in Bavaria ( Oppidum von Manching ), on the North Sea ( Hatzum- Boomborg marshes), in Lebanon ( Tell Kāmid el-Lōz ) and in Ireland ( Rathgall ). Between 1975 and 1979 he examined the Bosau settlement chamber and the Slavic castle on the Bischofswarder as part of university research . As a full-time monument conservator, he researched the Rullstorf settlement chamber from 1979 to 2009 , one of the most important settlement archaeological projects in northern Germany . He carried out other important excavation projects, such as the uncovering of a megalithic grave and two Bronze Age longhouses near Ochtmissen during the construction of the A 250 . Furthermore, he documented a Bronze Age burial mound field on the route of the B 4 near Deutsch Evern and undertook rescue excavations in the county of Bentheim . In 2002 he was the project manager for the archaeological investigations in Lower Saxony for the construction of a pipeline from Stade to Teutschenthal .
Publications (selection)
- with Bernhard Rozanski: The Slavic castle wall on the Bischofswarder , Neumünster, 1986
- A Saxon cult site with burial ground in Rullstorf, Ldkr.Lüneburg in: Excavations in Lower Saxony. Archaeological monument preservation 1979–1984. Stuttgart 1985.
- Rullstorf - 20 years of archeology on the edge of the Elbmarsch in: Archeology | Land | Lower Saxony - 400,000 years of history , 2004
- On the way to Valhalla. The horses of the Old Saxons - companions in life and death . Industrie-Museum Lohne, Lohne 2004, ISBN 3-9808151-8-8 .
- with Friedrich Lüth: Rullstorf I. The archaeological investigations in the area of the site of the 5th excavation years 1979-1982 , Hanover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5642-3
- Rullstorf II. The archaeological investigations in the area of the site of the 5th excavation years 1983-2009 , Rahden, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89646-977-9
- Rullstorf III. The archaeological investigations in the area of site 5, excavation years 1983-2009 , catalog of the quadrant finds , Rahden, 2015
- with Peter Caselitz, Robert Lehmann , Georgios Avraam: Rullstorf IV. The Young Bronze Age urn grave field at site 8 , Rahden, 2018
literature
- Henning Haßmann : On the 65th birthday of Wilhelm Gebers in: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 4/2009
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Gebers in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gebers, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German prehistorian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holsthum |