Wolfgang M. Werner

Wolfgang Michael Werner (born August 3, 1946 in Marburg ) is a German prehistorian and monument conservator .

Life

Wolfgang Werner grew up mainly in Hamburg . After school, he moved to Antwerp ( Belgium ), where, after completing a commercial apprenticeship in a company, he was responsible for trade in Southeast Europe. Therefore, he soon moved his professional focus from Ljubljana to Bucharest . He later returned to Germany, did his secondary school diploma and began studying prehistory , classical archeology , geography and ethnology at the University of Hamburg , which he completed in 1982 with the dissertation on "Iron Age Snaffles on the Lower and Middle Danube ”.

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While still a student, he trained as a bookseller. After graduating, he worked for archaeological monument preservation in Hamburg and then went to the Archaeological State Museum of Schleswig-Holstein in Gottorf Castle as an assistant to Kurt Schietzel . There he switched to the preservation of monuments at the State Archaeological Office as deputy of Joachim Reichstein . From there he went to the Ulm Museum in 1986 for the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office . The work in the Ulm Museum led to close contact with the archaeological monument preservation department of Baden-Württemberg . In addition to the preservation of monuments, Werner dealt intensively with the then new technology of personal computers .

When the first position for an archaeologist with IT skills was created in Germany in the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office under the then state archaeologist and department head Dieter Planck , he was able to benefit from his IT experience (e.g. from the one he had set up earlier first WEB site for monument preservation / archeology in Germany) and became the first relevant clerk.

With his assistance, the Baden-Wuerttemberg State Monuments Office introduced IT across the board in 2002. He was able to replace the initially planned database solution with mainframes, such as at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn , with his own database system based on personal computers. This system of ADAB ( A rchäologische Since th b ank) launched in 1988 in Baden-Württemberg as a client-server application developed steadily and has been ever since. In 1995 the system for building and art monument maintenance was taken over while retaining the established name “ADAB” (General Monument Database). With the turn of the millennium, planning began for porting the system to Internet technology. The application has now become a complex information system with a strong GIS component , which is available as the ADABweb web application . Since 2006 ADABweb has been further developed together with the state of Lower Saxony and the cooperation partner Interactive-Instruments GmbH Bonn. Werner retired at the end of August 2011.

Publications

• Horse Bridles from Southeast Europe: An Overview. In: Archaeological correspondence sheet . Vol. 15 (1985), No. 4, pp. 463-479.
• Bronze Age folding stool. In: Germania . 65: 29-65 (1987).
• Paths to prehistoric burial mounds in Hanerau-Hademarschen . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1988, ISBN 3-529-01752-3 .
• Iron Age bridles on the lower and middle Danube . Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-31891-6 (= dissertation; online ).
• ADAB - Archaeological database of the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office. In: German National Committee for Monument Protection (Ed.): Monument preservation and computer-aided documentation and information. Bonn 1992, pp. 26-30.
• Protection zones in Baden-Württemberg and the ADAB General Monument Database. In: archeology and computers . Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-9500492-1-5 , p. 9 f.