Alfred toD – Wikipedia

Alfred Heinrich Otto Tode (Born August 11, 1900 in Lübeck, † May 4, 1996 in Braunschweig) was a German prehistorian and from 1945 to 1965 director of the Braunschweigische State Museum.

Alfred Tode visited the Johanneum zu Lübeck grammar school from 1909 to 1918, where he passed his Abitur in June 1918 towards the end of the First World War. He then did a short military service until the beginning of 1919 and began studying geology, archeology, old history as well as the pre- and early history in Kiel in the same year, which he completed in 1922 in Berlin with a doctorate as the latest doctoral history in the German Empire. During his studies he became a member of the Amv albingia zu as (in the Verein Häuser Association). ^[first] Between 1923 and 1936, he devoted himself to the archaeological admission he developed and applied for the first time with the systematic recording of the prehistoric and early history sites of Schleswig-Holstein. He carried out his project exemplary and exemplary for other German regions.

During an excavation in Dahlhausen in Brandenburg, he met the pastor’s daughter in 1923 and married them in 1925. From the marriage to his wife Irmgard, a son and later two more sons and one daughter emerged in 1926 and 1929.

Towards the end of the Weimar Republic and at the beginning of the time of National Socialism, death with partners of the NSDAP came together for one another due to the emerging German cultivator. After the “seizure of power” in 1933, the Kiel Gauleiter Alfred Tode released his archaeological state admission as a private activity.

During a speech by Alfred Death at a prehistoric conference in Ulm in 1936, the Prime Minister of the Free State of Braunschweig Dietrich Klagges became aware of him and called him in 1937 as a state archaeologist to Braunschweig, where he was habilitated in 1938. At the end of death, the Borwall was protected in 1937 as the first archaeological monument in Braunschweig. In Braunschweig, death built that House of the past as a prehistoric museum. According to the will of the National Socialists, it should be a Museum of Germanic Archeology, which in the sense of the National Socialist ideology promotes the cultural level of primeval man. ^[2] Instead, death and his employees in the museum were more of the Indo -European or Nordic Groß Steingräber culture. In addition, death teacher training at the Braunschweig University of Education.

Alfred Death was collapsed during the Second World War. He took part in Poland in 1939 and was a participant in the western campaign in France in 1940. Then he returned to Braunschweig to take care of the protection of the museums from bombing. Death’s apartment was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1944. His family was already evacuated to Eilum on the Elm. The museum he built by him House of the past was completely destroyed in the bombing of Braunschweig on October 15, 1944. He had previously had the stocks outsourced in villages at the Elm. After the war, they formed the foundation of the department for pre- and early history of the Braunschweigische State Museum, which was built by Alfred Death and opened in Wolfenbüttel in 1959. At the beginning of 1944 he was appointed military service.

After the war, in contrast to many others of his colleagues, Alfred Death was classified as unencumbered in the denazification procedure. Already in the spring of 1945 he was called head of the Braunschweig State Museum. He held the office until his retirement in 1965. He held a teaching position for pre- and early history at the Technical University of Braunschweig. In 1970 he was one of the founding members of the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony.

After his retirement, Alfred Death was a member of the Council of the City of Braunschweig from 1964 to 1972 and temporarily chairman of the cultural committee. From 1955 he headed the prehistory museum in Bremen, which moved to Worpswede in 1971 as Ludwig Roselius Museum. Death was significantly involved in the new building and the establishment of the museum. He also had a long time of the Bremen Society for History, whose honorary member he remained until his death.

In addition to his museum and teaching, Alfred Tode was an active excavator. Due to its excavation activity, Oldstein time research gained strong impulses. In 1952 he gained greater awareness in Lower Saxony through his excavation of the archaeological place of Salzgitter-Lebenstedt as a Mittel-Paleolithic camp of mammoth hunters. He carried out further excavations at the Burgwall Vorsfelde (1946) and the riding fastenings (1954). Alfred Tode devoted himself to research into the Neolithic stone box of Bredelem, the megalith grave of Groß Steinum and the grave of the Walternienburg-Bernburg culture near Liebenburg. Further research focuses on the early Middle Ages and castles, such as the excavation of the Kansteinburg.

• Cultural images from the history . In: Schleswig-Holstein Yearbook (1924), S. 5–12.
• The Schleswig problem in the light of prehistory research . In: Schleswig-Holstein Yearbook (1924), S. 20f.
• Together with Hermann Hofmeister: The prehistoric monuments in the Lübeck state. M. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1930, DNB 573815992 .
• Preistory of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Lübeck. J.J. Augustin, Glückstadt 1933/1934.
• Low Germany. Life and research. German Volksbücherei, Goslar 1948, DNB 453579515 .
• The excavations in the medieval school rode near Harzburg. (Illustrated brochure). Harzburg 1950.
• Mammut hunter 100,000 years ago. Nature and man in northwestern Germany for the last ice age due to the excavations at Salzgitter-Lebenstedt. Appelhans, Braunschweig 1954, DNB 455081182 .
• The Salzgitter-Lebenstedt. Böhlau, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-412-10982-7.

• Your Lammers: Alfred Tode (1900–1996) “The man who made the stones to talk” first in: Braunschweigische Heimat 89 (2003) 22–24 (PDF, 132 KB)
• Ralf Busch: Dr. Alfred Tode Braunschweig State Archeologist i. R. died , in: News from Lower Saxony’s prehistory 65 (1996) 236 f. (PDF)
• Norman-Mathias Pingel: Alfred (Heinrich Otto) Death. In: Luitgard Camerer, Manfred Garzmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (ed.): Braunschweig Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5, S. 130 . (Additions 2001).
• The spouse continues For the diamond wedding and on his 85th birthday. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung from August 10, 1985.
• Werner Flechsig: Alfred Tode completed his 85th year of life. Friendly reviews of an eventful archaeologist life. In: Braunschweigian home 71st year, issue 3/4, September 1985, pp. 121–124.

1. ↑ Association of Alter Sver (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 124.
2. ↑ Large blonde. (On the abuse of archeology by National Socialism) in: Young world. from November 27, 2004 To the exhibition in Wolfenbüttel Staged Germaning – the Archaeological Museum “House of People” 1937–1944.