Wolfgang Padberg

Wolfgang Padberg (born August 19, 1910 in Essen ; † probably died) was a German prehistoric scientist .

Wolfgang Padberg passed his Abitur in 1929 and initially trained as a locksmith until 1930. He then began studying philosophy, history and the history of religion at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , and in 1932 he moved to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , where he studied prehistory and early history . From 1935 he was active in excavations, in 1938 he became a research assistant at the State Museum for Pre- and Early History in Schwerin . In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and in 1944 was taken prisoner by the Soviets and became an employee of the National Committee Free Germany , for which he worked in Elabuga as an agitator and cultural functionary. Padberg was released from captivity in 1950 and immediately received a scheduled scientific apprenticeship at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , in 1951 he went to the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle . In 1953 he became a research associate at the Department of Prehistory and Early History in the Museum of German History in Berlin , which he remained until 1960. The doctorate took place in December 1954 on the subject of archaeological material on the problem of the incarnation, evaluated sociologically by the experts Werner Rothmaler and Karl-Heinz Otto . From 1954 to 1959, Padberg was also initially a lecturer and later entrusted with teaching. In September 1963 he became a lecturer for prehistory at the Pedagogical University of Potsdam , in 1974 he was an associate professor despite the lack of a habilitation / doctorate B. In 1975 Padberg retired.

Padberg was mainly concerned with the early development of humans. He wrote many writings on teacher training and thus had some influence on the education of students from the 1950s to 1970s in the GDR.

Fonts

• Lesson letters for distance learning for middle school teachers. History. 3. , People and Knowledge, Berlin 1956
• with Werner Rothmaler : Contributions to the early history of agriculture (3 volumes), Deutscher Bauernverlag, Berlin 1955–57
• Teaching aids for biology lessons , people and knowledge, Berlin 1962
• with Georg Uschmann : training sheet for the qualification of working people. Lehrbogen 20/21., The History of Organisms. To the story of d. Development theory , people and knowledge, Berlin 1962

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 471.