11 Facts About Wilhelm Unverzagt

Wilhelm Unverzagt was a German prehistorian and archaeologist.

Wilhelm Unverzagt then worked for a short time as a research assistant at the Museum of Nassau Antiquities in Wiesbaden and from December 1916 to Summer 1917 in the Romisch-Germanische Kommission of the German Archaeological Institute in Frankfurt am Main.

Wilhelm Unverzagt was then employed by the military in Brussels as an assistant consultant on the staff of the Flemish Occupation Administration, where he recorded Roman and late antique monuments in Belgium and northern France.

In 1925 Wilhelm Unverzagt became a research assistant, and in 1926 director of the Museum fur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte in Berlin, then the largest German Museum of Prehistoric Archeology.

Wilhelm Unverzagt first became a full member of the German Archaeological Institute in 1927, and then in 1929 the Romisch-Germanischen Kommission.

In 1937, following the end of the freeze on new memberships, Wilhelm Unverzagt joined the NSDAP and received membership number 3,917,672.

Wilhelm Unverzagt participated in courses of the SS and the Reich Labor Service.

In Germany Wilhelm Unverzagt conducted numerous excavations of Hillforts, as for example in Lossow near Frankfurt an der Oder from 1926 to 1926, at the Reitweiner Wallberge at Reitwein in the Oderbruch 1930, in Macedonia from 1931 to 1932, in Zantoch at the river Warthe from 1932 to 1934, in Kliestow near Frankfurt from 1936 to 1938, and finally in Lebus from 1939 to 1944.

From 1942 to 1944 Wilhelm Unverzagt was chairman and from 1951 to 1954 vice chairman of the Berliner Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte.

Since 1927 Wilhelm Unverzagt was editor of the publication Prahistorische Zeitschrift, since 1953 the Schriften der Sektion fur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte, since 1956 the journal Ausgrabungen und Funde, and since 1957 the magazine Werte der deutschen Heimat.

In 1959 Wilhelm Unverzagt received the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic, second class.