Willi Wegewitz

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Memorial stone in Ahlerstedt- Ottendorf, municipality of Harsefeld

Willi Wegewitz (born March 8, 1898 in the forester's house Hollenbeck , Stade district ; † January 2, 1996 in Hamburg-Harburg ) was a German archaeologist , local history researcher and museum director .

Life

Willi Wegewitz was interested in botany during his school days. From 1912 he attended the teachers' college in Stade . Military service followed from 1916 to 1918. From 1920 he worked as a primary school teacher in Ahlerstedt and actively devoted himself to homeland and prehistory research under the guidance of Hans Müller-Brauel . In 1922 he attended summer courses for prehistory at the University of Jena and from 1924 he was a guest student at the University of Hamburg . In 1925 he took over the honorary management of the prehistory department of the Stade Museum and became a conservationist for the eastern district of Stade. In the years 1927 to 1929 he excavated the Iron Age urn grave field of Harsefeld , which was one of his most important excavations . From 1930 he taught as a teacher in Harburg-Wilhelmsburg and was appointed honorary director of the Helms Museum . With the nationalization of the Helms-Museum in 1937, he was appointed full-time director and monument curator for the Harburg district. With this professional background, he gave up his teaching activity and began studying prehistory, ethnology and geology at the University of Hamburg. He was with his dissertation The Lombard culture in Gau Moswidi (Niederelbe) at the beginning of our era doctorate and worked as a lecturer. Due to the strong promotion of prehistory, he joined the NSDAP . However, he never appeared politically and kept his publications free from ideological tendencies. In 1953 Wegewitz founded the open-air museum on the Kiekeberg as a local history branch of the Helms Museum. In 1959 he was appointed honorary professor by the University of Hamburg. In 1949 he founded the Saxon Symposion together with Karl Waller and Albert Genrich and a Lombards symposium in the 1960s . Even after his retirement in 1966, he continued to devote himself to his work and published other publications. In 1970 he was one of the founding members of the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony .

The Willi-Wegewitz-Ring in Ahlerstedt was named in his honor.

Services

Willi Wegewitz's main focus was on excavations and research on 14 prehistoric and early historical burial grounds and settlements in the Harburg district and the Harburg , Lüneburg and Stade districts . His main focus was on regional history, whereas larger, supra-regional contexts were less important to him. Particularly noteworthy are his work on the history of the Lombards and Saxons in these districts, which are still trend-setting today. The state of research has not increased significantly since 1968. Another field of activity was local history research in the Harburg district, which he manifested with the establishment of the open-air museum on the Kiekeberg.

Editing

  • Harburg yearbook. Publications by the Helms Museum, Hamburg-Harburg since 1938

Fonts

  • From days gone by . Stader Heimatverlag K. Krause, Stade 1926.
  • The urn cemetery of Harsefeld , in: Die Tide - Niederdeutsche Heimatblätter, 6th year, issue 7, July 1929, pp. 284–296
  • A giant stone grave in Langenrehm, municipality of Emsen, district of Harburg . Lax, Hildesheim 1935
  • A folding chair from a burial mound of the older Bronze Age in Daensen, Harburg district . Helms-Museum, Hamburg-Harburg 1935
  • A house of the dead under a Bronze Age barrow in the Sottorf field, Harburg district . Helms-Museum, Hamburg-Harburg 1935
  • The Lombard culture in Gau Moswidi (Lower Elbe) at the beginning of our era . Lax, Hildesheim 1937
  • The time of the Swebian conquest around 500 before the turning point according to finds from the urn cemeteries in the Harburg district . Helms Museum, Hamburg-Harburg 1937
  • Settlements from the earlier Iron Age in the Harburg district . Heimatmuseum, Hamburg-Harburg 1940
  • A Longobard women's cemetery in the Tostedt fieldmark, Harburg district . Heimatmuseum, Hamburg-Harburg 1940
  • A work site for late Ice Age reindeer hunters in the field of Ketzendorf, Harburg district . Helms-Museum, Hamburg-Harburg 1941
  • The Longobard urn cemetery of Tostedt-Wüstenhöfen in the Harburg district . Lax, Hildesheim 1944
  • The graves of the Stone and Bronze Age in the area of ​​the Lower Elbe (the districts of Stade and Harburg) . Lax, Hildesheim 1949
  • The Feldmark Buchholz in prehistoric times . Municipal administration Buchholz (Kr.Harburg) 1950
  • Harburg home. The landscape around Hamburg-Harburg . Verlag der Gesellschaft der Freunde des. Patriotic school u. Education, Hamburg 1950
  • The giant bed in the Nenndorfer prospective forest . Helms-Museum, Hamburg-Harburg 1954
  • The urn cemeteries of Dohren and Daensen in the Harburg district from the pre-Roman Iron Age . In: The urn cemeteries in Lower Saxony . Vol. 5, Lax, Hildesheim 1961
  • The urn cemetery of Ehestorf-Vahrendorf in the Harburg district from the pre-Roman iron and older Roman imperial times . In: The urn cemeteries in Lower Saxony . Vol. 6, Lax, Hildesheim 1962
  • The urn cemetery in Hamburg-Marmstorf . In: The urn cemeteries in Lower Saxony . Vol. 7, Lax, Hildesheim 1964
  • The urn cemetery in Hamburg-Langenbek . In: The urn cemeteries in Lower Saxony . Vol. 8, Lax, Hildesheim 1965
  • Row graveyards and finds from the late Saxon period in the Harburg district . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1968.
  • The urn cemetery of Wetzen, Harburg district, and other finds from the 1st century BC In the area of ​​the Lower Elbe . In: The urn cemeteries in Lower Saxony . Vol. 9, Lax, Hildesheim 1970
  • The Lombard cemetery of Putensen, Harburg district . Lax, Hildesheim 1972
  • The urn cemetery of the older and younger pre-Roman Iron Age in Putensen, Harburg district . Lax, Hildesheim 1973
  • Around the Kiekeberg . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1988 ISBN 3-529-01356-0
  • From the prehistory of the community of Ahlerstedt . Ahlerstedt municipality 1989
  • The adventure of archeology . Isensee, Oldenburg 1994. ISBN 3-89442-230-0

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Willi Wegewitz . In: Hoops (Ed.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde .
  2. ^ Articus: Professor Dr. Willi Wegewitz .
  3. ↑ Busch: Farewell to Prof. Dr. Willi Wegewitz .
  4. ^ Row grave cemeteries and finds from the late Saxon period in the Harburg district .
personal data
SURNAME Wegewitz, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Forsthaus Hollenbeck , Stade District , Hanover Province , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1996
Place of death Hamburg-Harburg , Hamburg , Germany