One hundred years Germania. An archaeological journal as anchor of identity, object of prestige and printed product

Abstract

In 1917, the Romano-Germanic Commission (RGK) for the first time published the Korrespondenzblatt der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, since 1918 under the new title Germania. However, not these one hundred years of publishing history of the Frankfurt Commission will be described in this article but the Germania itself – as identity anchor, object of prestige and polygraphic product of the RGK. In order to reconstruct these attributions, the motivations behind the development of the Germania at the end of the First World War and its continuation after the end of
the Second World War will be analysed and compared with the constellations of three further influential German archaeological journals.