Austrian Geological Society
| Austrian Geological Society (ÖGeolG, ÖGG) |
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| purpose | Promotion of Austrian geology |
| Chair: | Peter Krois (President) |
| Establishment date: | 1907 (as Geological Society in Vienna ) |
| Number of members: | about 700 |
| Seat : | Vienna 3 , Neulinggasse 38 ( c ⁄ o Federal Geological Institute) |
| Website: | www.geologie.or.at |
The Austrian Geological Society ( ÖGeolG or ÖGG ) is a scientific association of geologists in Austria and cooperation partners abroad.
Structure and tasks
The objectives formulated in 1907 are still valid today:
- Coordination of the cooperation among the Austrian geologists
- Contacting foreign colleagues and companies
- Cooperation between scientific and applied geology
- Maintaining the versatility of all geological work directions
- Dissemination of geological knowledge and new research results
- Society's openness to anyone interested in geological issues.
The society currently has around 500 members.
Its activities, the annual publication of the Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences is one (ehem. Releases the Austrian Geological Society ), which in the exchange of publications in more than 200 foreign professional associations, universities will be sent etc.. Regular specialist lectures are held in the cities of Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Graz . There are also excursions and workshops or courses on special topics .
In addition to three regional groups and a junior section, the society maintains working groups on the following topics:
- Digital geology
- Petroleum geology
- Earth Sciences, School and Public
- History of Earth Sciences
- Engineering geology
- stratigraphy
- Defense geology
The Secretariat of the ÖGG is run by the Federal Geological Institute (GBA) in Vienna.
history
It was founded in Vienna in 1907 as the Geological Society in Vienna and was given its current name in 1976.
Chair of the ÖGG
- 1907–1909 Victor Uhlig (1857–1911)
- 1910–1911 Carl Diener (1862–1928)
- 1912–1913 Franz Eduard Suess (1867–1941)
- 1914–1915 Josef Gattnar (1854–1928)
- 1916–1917 Julius Dreger (1861–1945)
- 1918–1919 Gustav Adolf von Arthaber (1864–1943)
- 1920–1921 Wilhelm Hammer (1875–1942)
- 1922–1923 Franz Xaver Schaffer (1876–1953)
- 1924–1925 Fritz Kerner von Marilaun (1866–1944)
- 1926–1927 Otto Rotky (1870–1951)
- 1928–1929 Franz Eduard Suess (1867–1941)
- 1930–1931 Friedrich Trauth (1883–1967)
- 1932–1933 Julius von Pia (1887–1943)
- 1934–1935 Hermann Vetters (1880–1941)
- 1936–1937 Josef Stiny (1880–1958)
- 1938–1939 Otto Ampferer (1875–1947)
- 1940–1941 Kurt Leuchs (1881–1947)
- 1942–1943 Heinrich Beck (1880–1979)
- 1944–1945 Othmar Kühn (1892–1969)
- 1945–1946, 1947–1948 Leo Waldmann (1899–1973)
- 1949–1950 Hannes Mohr (1882–1967)
- 1951–1952 Marta Cornelius-Furlani (1886–1974)
- 1953–1954 Alois Kieslinger (1900–1975)
- 1955–1956 Othmar Kühn (1892–1969)
- 1957–1958 Eberhard Clar (1904–1995)
- 1959–1960 Robert Janoschek (1906–1986)
- 1961–1962 Helmuth Zapfe (1913–1996)
- 1963–1964 Heinrich Küpper (1904–2000)
- 1965–1966 Christof Exner (1915–2007)
- 1967–1968 Siegmund Prey (1912–1992)
- 1969–1970 Hermann Stowasser (1908–1994)
- 1971–1972 Walter Medwenitsch (1927–1992)
- 1973–1974 Anton Wolfgang Ruttner (1911–2006)
- 1975–1976 Kurt Kollmann (1915–1982)
- 1977–1978 Helmut W. Flügel
- 1979–1980 Arthur J. Kröll
- 1981–1984 Walter Graef
- 1985–1986 Rudolf Oberhauser (1926–2008)
- 1987–1990 Friedrich Brix (1925–1996)
- 1991–1994 Walter Josef Schmidt
- 1995–1998 Eckard Wallbrecher
- 1999–2002 Werner Janoschek
- 2003-2006 Wolfgang Nachtmann
- 2007–2010 Christoph Spötl
- 2011–2014 Franz Neubauer
- 2015–2018 Bernhard Grasemann
- since 2019 Peter Krois
Honors awarded
Her prizes include honorary membership and the appointment of corresponding members, the Eduard Sueß commemorative coin , the Otto Ampferer Prize and the Hans Höfer von Heimhalt Prize .
Honorary member
Prize winners of the Eduard Sueß commemorative coin are also honorary members of the society. Honorary members include:
- Ferdinand Broili
- Wolfgang Frank
- Wolfgang Frisch
- Werner Piller
- Michael Sarnthein
- Hans-Peter Schönlaub
- Celâl Şengör
- Fritz F. Steininger
- Erich Thenius
- Leopold Weber
Publications
Since 1908, the Geological Society has published the notices annually in addition to the association news . The magazine has been called the Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences since 2004 and publishes in English. Since September 2018, AJES has been published as an open access journal owned by the ÖGG in the online publisher Sciendo and can be downloaded there for free, article by article.
The title changes of the "messages":
- Communications from the Geological Society in Vienna , Vol. 1–31, 1908–1938
- Announcements from the Alpine Geological Association 32–35, 1939–1942
- Communications from the Geological Society in Vienna , 36–67, 1945–1974
- Communications from the Austrian Geological Society , 68–94, 1975–2003
- Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences , Vol. 95/96 ff, 2004 ff
Starting with volume 1 from 1908, all volumes are digitized and can be accessed on the Internet.
See also
- Austrian Soil Science Society
- Austrian Geographical Society
- Austrian Society for Geomechanics
- Austrian Mineralogical Society
literature
- Erhard Braumüller: On the history of the Geological Society in Vienna (or since 1976 the Austrian Geological Society) in the years 1958-1982. In: Communications of the Austrian Geological Society 76, Vienna 1983, pp. 7-18.
- Tillfried Cernajsek , Johannes Seidl: Between science, politics and practice: 100 years of the Austrian Geological Society (formerly the Geological Society in Vienna). In: Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 100, Vienna 2007, pp. 252-274.
- Tillfried Cernajsek , Johannes Seidl: 100 years of the Austrian Geological Society, formerly the Geological Society in Vienna. On the problems of a club history and its methods. In: Reports of the Federal Geological Institute. 7th Scientific History Symposium "History of Earth Sciences in Austria" , Vol. 72, Vienna 2008, pp. 7–12 ( pdf , geologie.ac.at, whole issue)