Bergakademie Berlin

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The Bergakademie Berlin was a mining academy founded in 1770 under Friedrich II . With the public on December 16, 1808 , it was transferred to or subordinated to the Mining Section, more precisely to the " Department for Mining, Minting, Salt Manufacturing and Porcelain Manufacturing " of the Ministry of the Interior. The geologist Carl Abraham Gerhard is considered to be the founder .

The Prussian King Friedrich II issued the cabinet order "that not only mineralogy .. but also .. mining rights should be properly documented". The raw materials that are important for Prussia and their extraction should therefore remain in the hands of experts from their own country.

In 1809 the mining academy was subordinated to the new mining authority, etc. By government decree , the “Mineralogical Cabinet” belonged to the new Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität from 1810, housed in 1814 as the “Mineralogical Museum” in the “ Unter den Linden ” university complex. The mining section and the mining academy remained the owner. In the following years the directors were lecturers at the mining academy and the university at the same time.

On September 1, 1860, at the instigation of Ober-Berghauptmann Otto Ludwig Krug von Nidda , Wilhelm I , then Prince Regent , founded a new university with initially 44 students and the so-called Old Stock Exchange at Lustgarten was designated as the seat . The ministerial mine library, which comprises around 30,000 volumes, was also added to it. At the beginning the academy functioned as a complementary institute to the university. It began teaching on October 22, 1860 with 44 students. Heinrich Lottner became the first director .

At that time the curriculum provided for events in the following subjects: mining, saltwork , general metallurgy, iron and steel engineering , mechanics , mechanical engineering, mine sheath and measuring art , drawing and construction, revision courses and colloquia on mineralogy and geognosy and on mathematical disciplines and mining law ; in addition practical lessons in the laboratory, soldering tube trial art and in mineral analysis.

On April 28, 1868, the " Museum of Mining and Metallurgy, which is associated with the Royal Mountain Academy, opened on the property of the Royal Iron Foundry in front of the new gate " in Berlin.

In 1873 the Bergakademie was merged with the newly founded Prussian Geological State Institute to form an organizational unit under the direction of Wilhelm Hauchecorne , Lottner's successor. While the state institute was tasked with the scheduled surveying of Prussia, the Bergakademie took over the training.

In 1907 the Bergakademie was spun off again and became independent. On October 1, 1916, the Bergakademie Berlin was affiliated to the Royal Technical University of Charlottenburg as a department for mining.

literature

  • Hermann Wedding : The Royal Prussian Bergakademie in Berlin. In: Wilhelm Lexis (Ed.): The teaching system in the German Empire. Volume 4: The technical education. Part 2: The universities for special fields. A. Asher & Co., Berlin 1904, pp. 4-14 .
  • Hugo Strunz : From the Bergakademie to the Technical University of Berlin. 1770-1970. Sponsor of the Berlin Faculty for Mining and Metallurgy eV, Essen 1970.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Schulz: The Royal Prussian Mining Academy Berlin. In: Glückauf. No. 131, 2016, ZDB -ID 1353797-0 , pp. 81-83 .
  2. ↑ Collection of the laws and ordinances published for the Royal Prussian States from 1806 to October 27, 1810. Berlin, 1822 , p. 368
  3. ^ Susanne Herting-Agthe: Technical University of Berlin. 225 years of mineralogical collections. History - detailed. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ The mountain spirit. Newspaper for mining, metallurgy and industry. XIII. Volume 34 of April 28, 1868, p. 151.