Willy Bastian

Willy Bastian (born January 5, 1893 in Kieth, former district of Linstow near Krakow , † January 24, 1970 in Schwerin ) was a German prehistorian and monument conservator .

Life

Willy Bastian completed a pedagogy degree in Berlin and attended lectures by the prehistorian Albert Kiekebusch . Then he worked as a teacher in the Baltic Sea resort of Wustrow on the Fischland . His interest in prehistory and early history, aroused by the lectures, was found in his work as a local historian. There he created what is probably the largest private collection of artifacts in Mecklenburg .

In 1935 he was appointed to the Mecklenburg State Museum in Schwerin , where he devoted himself to the reorganization of a large prehistoric and early historical collection in Schwerin Castle. In 1935 he also became a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . He held the position of deputy monument conservationist for the state of Mecklenburg and was involved in setting up a voluntary care organization. In 1938 he received the John Brinckman Prize for his work . At the beginning of the war he was drafted into military service in 1939 and did not return from captivity until the early 1950s.

The prehistorians Robert Beltz and Wilhelm Unverzagt were among the founding members of the so-called "Burgwallarbeitsgemeinschaft", which from 1927 to 1929 also developed the first Burgwall card index for Mecklenburg. Willy Bastian continued this systematic Burgwallaufnahme from 1953 to 1970 as head of the research company "Burgwallaufnahme Mecklenburg" at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

Fonts (selection)

• The Stone Age Fischland. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte . Vol. 3, 1927, pp. 350-351, ( digital version (PDF; 721.48 KB) ).
• State of research on early and post-glacial cultures in Mecklenburg with special consideration of the northeast. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte. Vol. 9, 1933, pp. 163-165, ( digital version (PDF; 268.75 KB) ).
• The Boddenfund, a Nordic hand ax culture with a Paleolithic character. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1935.
• Two large stone graves from Müggenhall, Stralsund district, and their ceramics. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook. 1953, ISSN  0067-9461 , pp. 26-44.
• The thin-nosed flint ax in Mecklenburg and its importance for the emergence of the megalithic and eastern individual grave culture. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook. 1954, pp. 37-60.
• Middle Slavic hilltop castles with slopes and embankments in Mecklenburg. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook. 1955, pp. 155-177.
• Camin in the district of Hagenow: a settlement study of its area. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook. 1956, pp. 160-200.
• The harbor and stream castles in the former Land of Barth and the Burg and Vitte in Ahrenshoop. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook. 1959, pp. 192-228.
• The Neolithic flat burial ground of Ostorf, Schwerin district. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook. 1961, pp. 7-130.
• Observations in the castle and settlement of Alt-Gaarz, Kr. Doberan. A contribution to the situation of Rerik. In: Paul Grimm (Ed.): Varia Archaeologica. Wilhelm Unverzagt on his 70th birthday (= German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Writings of the Section for Prehistory and Early History. Vol. 16, ZDB -ID 517961-0 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1964, pp. 237-254.

literature

• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 582 .
• Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 28.

Web links

• Works by Willy Bastian in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Willy Bastian in the state bibliography MV
• Literature about Willy Bastian in the state bibliography MV