Ricardo Eichmann

German archaeologist (born 1955)

Ricardo Eichmann

Born|

Ricardo Francisco Eichmann

(1955-11-02) November 2, 1955 (age 69)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Occupation| Archaeologist
Children| 2
Parent| Adolf Eichmann (father)
Academic background
Alma mater| Heidelberg University
Academic work
Discipline| Near Eastern archaeology
Institutions| University of Tübingen
German Archaeological Institute

Ricardo Francisco Eichmann (born November 2, 1955) is an Argentine-born German archaeologist. He was the director of the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute between 1996 and 2020 and previously a professor of Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Tübingen.

## Early life

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Ricardo Francisco Eichmann was born on November 2, 1955, in Buenos Aires.[1][2] He is the youngest son of Adolf Eichmann and Vera Eichmann (née Liebl).[3][4] He has three older brothers.[5] Eichmann was five years old when his father was captured and taken from Argentina to Israel by Mossad.[6] As a teenager, Eichmann learned of his father's history from books. He rejected the Nazi ideology of his father and accepted that his execution was justified.[5]

From 1977, Eichmann studied prehistory and protohistory, classical archaeology and Egyptology at Heidelberg University. His 1984 dissertation was titled Prehistoric Aspects of Floor Plans in the Middle East.[7]

## Academic career

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Eichmann is an archaeologist. From 1984 to 1994, he worked first as a scientific consultant and later as a research assistant in the Baghdad department of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin.[8] Eichmann was then briefly Professor of Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Tübingen from 1995 to 1996.[3] From 1996 to 2019 he was the first director of the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, being succeeded by Margarete van Ess in 2020.[9] His research interests include music archaeology in the Near East and Egypt.[10]

## Personal life

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In 1995, he met Zvi Aharoni, the Mossad agent who was chiefly responsible for his father's capture.[6] Eichmann declines most requests for interviews. He has two sons.[5]

## Selected works

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* Eichmann, Ricardo; Schaudig, Hanspeter; Hausleiter, Arnulf (November 2006). "Archaeology and epigraphy at Tayma (Saudi Arabia)". Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy. 17 (2): 163–176\. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0471.2006.00269.x. ISSN 0905-7196.
* Eichmann, Ricardo (2007). Uruk: Architektur. Von den Anfängen bis zur frühdynastischen Zeit (in German). Verlag Marie Leidorf. ISBN 978-3-89646-036-3.
* Eichmann, Ricardo; Koch, Lars-Christian, eds. (2015). Musikarchäologie: Klänge der Vergangenheit (in German). Theiss. ISBN 978-3-8062-3007-9.

## References

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1. ^ Stangneth, Bettina (2 September 2014). Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 142\. ISBN 9780307959683. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
2. ^ "Operation Eichmann. The capture of Adolf Eichmann". Holocaust Research Project. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
3. ^ a b Glass, Suzanne (7 August 1995). "'Adolf Eichmann' is a historical figure to me: Ricardo Eichmann speaks to Suzanne Glass about growing up the fatherless son of the war criminal hanged in Israel". The Independent. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
4. ^ Glick, Dor (6 July 2010). "Coffee with Eichmann". Ynetnews. Yedioth Internet. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
5. ^ a b c Laub, Karin (June 5, 1995). "Eichmann's Son: My Father's Execution Was "Just Sentence". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2022-09-02. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
6. ^ a b Ackermann, Gwen (22 June 1995). "Eichmann's Son Meets Israeli Who Kidnapped His Father". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2023-04-10. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
7. ^ Eichmann, Ricardo Francisco (1984). Aspekte prähistorischer Grundrissgestaltung in Vorderasien [Prehistoric Aspects of Floor Plans in the Middle East] (Thesis) (in German). Verlag Philipp von Zabern – via Architecture.
8. ^ "Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Baghdad" [German Archaeological Institute, Baghdad Department]. DAInst.org (in German).
9. ^ "Directors". Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Archived from the original on 2023-04-28. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
10. ^ Hickmann, E.; Eichmann, R; Koch, L. (2010). "Musical Perceptions, Past and Present: On Ethnographic Analogy in Music Archaeology". International Study Group on Music Archaeology (Symposium). Germany: Verlag Marie Leidorf. ISBN 978-3-89646-655-6.

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