Wissenschaft und prähistorische Forschung in fünf politischen Systemen. Robert Rudolf Schmidt (1882–1950) und die SS-Grabung Mauern 1937 bei Rennertshofen
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Gunter Schöbel
Zusammenfassung
Der Gründer des ersten freien und nichtstaatlich finanzierten Forschungsinstitutes für Ur- und Frühgeschichte in Deutschland im Jahre 1921, des UFI in Tübingen, Robert Rudolf Schmidt, verdient es, für eine bislang wenig beachtete Schlüsselphase seines Lebens nach seiner Entlassung aus dem Universitätsdienst im Frühjahr 1934 noch einmal betrachtet zu werden. Und dies, obwohl seine Person schon mehrfach aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht bewertet wurde[1]. Neue Dokumente aus Privatarchiven ergänzen seine Forscher-Vita und sind geeignet, unter anderem Blickwinkel fachlich bereits vorgebrachte Narrative zu seiner Person erneut zu beleuchten. Dies trifft besonders auf die unter ihm vorgenommene Ausgrabung in den paläolithischen Höhlen von Mauern bei Rennertshofen in Bayern zu, die sich bislang einer genaueren Nachschau entzogen hatte. Er war bei seinem wissenschaftlichen Wirken im 20. Jahrhundert in fünf politischen Systemen tätig. Im Kaiserreich (bis 1918), in der Weimarer Republik (bis 1933), im Nationalsozialismus (bis 1945), in der Alliiertenzeit (bis 1949) und in seinen letzten Lebensmonaten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ab 1949), deren Anforderungen er sich stellte, deren Spielräume er für seine prähistorische Forschung zu nutzten versuchte, an denen er aber mehrfach scheiterte.
Abstract
The founder of the first independent and non-state-funded research institute for prehistory and early history in Germany in 1921, the UFI in Tübingen, Robert Rudolf Schmidt, deserves to be looked at again for a key phase of his life after his dismissal from university service in the spring of 1934 that has received little attention to date. And this despite the fact that his person has already been assessed several times from an academic perspective. New documents from private archives supplement his researcher CV and are suitable for re-examining narratives about his person that have already been presented from a different perspective. This applies in particular to the excavation he carried out in the Palaeolithic caves of Mauern near Rennertshofen in Bavaria, which had previously eluded closer scrutiny. During his scientific work in the 20th century, he was active in five political systems. In the German Empire (until 1918), in the Weimar Republic (until 1933), in National Socialism (until 1945), in the Allied period (until 1949) and in the last months of his life in the Federal Republic of Germany (from 1949), whose demands he faced and whose leeway he tried to utilise for his prehistoric research, but which he failed at several times.
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