Ricardo Eichmann

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 EgyptologyatHeidelberg University. His 1984 dissertation was titled Prehistoric Aspects of Floor Plans in the Middle East.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[7] His research interests include music archaeology in the Near East and Egypt.^{[citation needed]}

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]

• 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.