Alfred Mallwitz

Alfred Mallwitz ( born October 2, 1919 in Berlin, † March 17, 1986 in Stetten father ) was a German architectural historian.

Alfred Mallwitz made ​​1939 the High School in Berlin- Steglitz. During World War II, he was drafted by the Wehrmacht, but could by a leave of absence in 1940 Berlin hear archeology and art history at the university. After the war he studied architecture and graduated in 1950 at the Technical University Berlin. Since 1953 he was involved as excavation architect at the Olympia excavations of the German Archaeological Institute. 1960 doctorate on the Phidias workshop at Ernst Heinrich at the TU Berlin. From 1972 to 1984 he was head of the excavation of Olympia. He documented the large excavations in the stadium and initiated its reconstruction as well as numerous Anastilosen as to the palaestra, the Heraion and the treasure house of Sikyonians. From 1978 to 1980 he led the Big Dig in the southeast area of Olympia.

Writings (selection )

• Wolfgang sliding ring: The workshop of Phidias at Olympia I. de Gruyter, Berlin, 1964 ( Olympic Research, 5)
• Olympia and its buildings. Prestel, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7913-0320-1.
• Larger contributions to the Olympic reports VIII -XII.
• Papers to Bassai, Miletus, the Kabirion of Thebes.