Immerwahr, Henry Rudolph (31279923)

Henry Rudolph Immerwahr
Personal details
Birth name	Henry Rudolph Immerwahr
Born	28 February 1916 Breslau, Germany
Died	15 September 2013 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Nativity	Germany
Religion	Protestant
Known for	Classicist; Attic vase inscriptions; Herodotus
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Army
ASN	31279923
Rank	Technician Third Grade
Rank at Ritchie	Private First Class
Camp Ritchie	Class 18 (13 April – 10 June 1944)
Section	5A
Enlisted	Hartford, Connecticut
Specialty	POW interrogation
Teams	IPW 90, IPW 187

Teammates

Team — IPW 90

Team — IPW 187

These are other soldiers listed on the same team roster. People moved between teams; overlapping service dates are not always documented.

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Henry Rudolph Immerwahr (28 February 1916 – 15 September 2013) was a German-born classicist and U.S. Army technician third grade in Class 18 and IPW Team 90.

Biography

Henry Rudolph Immerwahr was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), on 28 February 1916. After Nazi racial laws closed university paths at home he studied classics in Florence (1934–1938), taking a dottore in lettere with a thesis on Plato’s concept of tyche. A fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens shaped his career and introduced him to archaeologist Sara “Sally” Anderson, whom he later married.

He immigrated to the United States, earned a Ph.D. At Yale (1943), became a U.S. Citizen, and served in the U.S. Army—including Camp Ritchie Class 18 as a technician third grade with IPW Team 90 (also later associated with IPW 187). On 20 August 1944, MIS ETO Special Orders No. 224 listed him with IPW Team 90 when PW interrogation teams were attached to G-2, Forward Echelon Communications Zone.

A Guggenheim postwar fellowship (1946) supported work on Athenian vase inscriptions. He taught at Yale (1947–1957), then at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (to 1977), becoming Alumni Distinguished Professor of Greek. From 1977 to 1982 he directed the American School in Athens. Major publications include Form and Thought in Herodotus (1966), Attic Script: A Survey (1990), and the online Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions. He died on 15 September 2013 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Research notes

• Full middle name Rudolph from UNC departmental history and Guggenheim fellow statement.

Gallery

• 
  Tec grade Immerwahr with map (wartime).
• 
  Henry R. Immerwahr (additional portrait).

Technical record

Field	Imported value
Approx Age at Death	97
Nara ASN	31279923
Nara Name	IMMERWAHR/HENRY R
Nara State	11
Nara County	9
Nara POE	1143
Nara DOE	130143
Nara Grade Alpha	PVT
Nara Grade Code	8
Nara Branch Alpha	BI
Nara Branch Code	0
Branch	Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Nara Term or Enlistment	5
Term of enlistment	Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Defer. Date	0
Nara Source	0
Nara Nativity	N1
Nara Year of Birth	16
Nara Race	J
Nara Race Description	White not yet a citizen
Nara Education	8
Nara Civilian Occupation	992
Nara Marital Status	6
Nara Height (inches)	70
Nara Weight (lbs)	155
Class_ASN	31279923
Class_Name	IMMERWAHR, Henry R.
match_method	asn_exact_name_exact
row_source	both

Timeline

• 28 February 1916 — Born in Breslau, Germany.
• 1934–1938 — University of Florence; dottore in lettere.
• 1938–1940 — American School of Classical Studies at Athens fellowship.
• 1940 — Immigrates to the United States; Yale Ph.D. 1943; naturalized.
• Mid-1940s — U.S. Army service; Camp Ritchie Class 18; IPW 90 / 187.
• 1946 — Guggenheim Fellowship (Attic vase inscriptions).
• 1947–1957 — Teaches at Yale.
• 1957–1977 — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Alumni Distinguished Professor of Greek (1975).
• 1977–1982 — Director, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
• 2013 — Died.
• 20 August 1944 — Listed on MIS ETO Special Orders No. 224 with IPW Team 90 (Tec 3; G-2 Fwd Ech Com Z attachment).
• 15 September 2013 — Died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Sources

• MIS ETO Special Orders No. 224 (extract), 20 August 1944 (IPW Teams 88–97; Field Interrogation Detachment → G-2 Fwd Ech Com Z)
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation — Henry R. Immerwahr fellow statement
• UNC Department of Classics — Henry Rudolph Immerwahr
• Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
• Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
• NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)