Carl Genser

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Carl Genser (1960)

Carl Georg Genser (* 1902 in Bad Kissingen ; † 1976 ibid.) Was a German geologist , chemist ( inorganic analyst) and practical radiologist and balneologist . He was the last "source inspector" of the Bavarian state bath in Bad Kissingen.

Life

With his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg with the dissertation of April 25, 1930 on the subject of the stratigraphy and chemistry of the middle shell limestone in Franconia , Genser had been a scientific assistant at the Radium Institute of the Freiberg Bergakademie in Saxony since February 1929 , where he was due to the temporal Restriction at Saxon universities had to retire at the end of 1932. In his job application of November 25, 1932, he named his experience in ore and rock analysis , chemical geology , mineral science (mineral springs ), radioactive ore, rock and water analysis as well as radiological geological problems as special expertise . At that time, he gave the physicist Gustav Aeckerlein (1878-1965), professor at the Bergakademie in Freiberg , and the geologist Wilhelm Salomon-Calvi (1868-1941) at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg as references . At that time he lived in Freiberg in house Fürstental 2 (1st floor).

Genser made a name for himself in his specialist field in the early 1930s through his research into radioactive mineral waters. In response to his job application, Genser must have got a job in Berlin, because in 1937 he lived in Berlin-Friedenau in the house at Fregestraße 16 (2nd floor).

After the death of the state chemist Prof. Paul Haertl (1878–1938), balneologist in Bad Kissingen, Genser was probably his successor in 1938 as the last state-Bavarian "source inspector" of the spa town and thus at the same time head of the local balneological laboratory in Littmann - Construction on Theresienstrasse (corner of Ludwigstrasse) appointed. But suffered his work a few years later from the effects of World War II , at the end of also Genser to dig trenches on the Western Wall was drafted and laboratory operation came to a standstill. Even refugees were temporarily housed in Genser's laboratory.

After the Second World War (before December 1, 1948), Genser operated a balneological laboratory on the upper floor of the Bad Kissingen jug magazine as the Bavarian government chemistry council . In 1952 his "State Laboratory for Mineral Research" was affiliated to the Balneological Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , on whose board he was already a member in 1953, and since then has been operating as the "Bad Kissingen branch of the Chemical Department of the Balneological Institute at the University of Munich". In 1966 Genser was appointed chief government chemist. After Genser's retirement in 1967, his laboratory in the Krugmagazin was closed and in the first few years that followed it was only used occasionally for particularly urgent tests. He lived privately in Bad Kissingen in the house at Ludwigstrasse 16 (2nd floor).

Genser was a member of the Geological Association and the Rotary Club Bad Kissingen, of which he was a founding member in 1957 and of which he became president for the first time in 1961, for the second time in 1969, and then became a former president.

Even after his retirement (1967), Genser remained active in his field and published specialist articles. At the 68th German Baths Day , the annual congress of the German Spas Association from October 8 to 11, 1972 in Freudenstadt , Dr. Carl Genser chaired a public lecture event of the “Working Group for the Scientific and Technical Basics of Balneology”. He had already assumed the chairmanship of this working group, which at that time was still called "Working group for pool and spring technology", in 1957.

Nothing is known about a wife or family of Gensers.

Awards

  • 1976: Zander medal in bronze from the Bavarian Beekeepers Association

Fonts

  • On the stratigraphy and chemistry of the middle shell limestone in Franconia , dissertation in: Geological and Palaeontological Treatises , New Series Volume 17, Issue 4, Verlag G. Fischer, Jena 1930
  • The radioactive waters of the Oberschlema radium bath and their formation. About the origin and nature of radioactive sources , in: Geologische Rundschau , Volume 23, Issue 3–4, Verlag Gebr. Borntraeger, Berlin 1932
  • About the origin and nature of radioactive sources , in: Geologische Rundschau , 1932, pages 188–237 doi : 10.1007 / BF01803460
  • The ranking of the radium baths Oberschlema, Brambach and St. Joachimsthal. A fundamental discussion of the question: Which is the strongest radium bath in the world? , Self-published, Würzburg 1933
  • Radioactive mineral springs in Germany , in: Journal of the German Geological Society , Volume 85 (1933), Pages 482–495 ( summary )
  • Bad Bocklet , in: Das Bayerland , page 58f., Munich 1953
  • About the extraction, preparation and processing of the bath peat to mud baths , in: Journal for applied baths and climate medicine , Issue 1, 1955, pages 1-11
  • The spa garden sources of Bad Kissingen with special consideration of their source technical facilities , in: Heilbad & Kurort , Heft 10, 1963, pages 218–226
  • About the development of new healing springs in Bad Neuststadt / Saale , in: Heilbad & Kurort , issue 5, 1970, pages 105-122
  • The Balthasar Neumann spring in Bad Bocklet. Its eventful history through the centuries , in: 250 years of the Bad Bocklet mineral spring , 1973, pages 31–34
  • Contribution to several scientific books such as

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Job application  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Geologische Rundschau , Volume 24, Issue 1–2, page 128@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / resources.metapress.com  
  2. ^ Gert Michel: Mineral and thermal waters. General Balneogeology , Textbook of Hydrogeology, Volume 7, Verlag Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1997, ISBN 3-443-01011-3 or ISBN 978-3-443-01011-9
  3. ↑ International Geologists and Mineralogists Calendar , 1937
  4. ^ Günther Greuel: The balneological laboratory in the Krugmagazin , in: Thomas Ahnert, Peter Weidisch (Ed.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen 801-2001. Facets of a city's history , commemorative publication for the anniversary year and volume accompanying the exhibition of the same name, special publication from the Bad Kissingen city archive, TA Schachenmayer Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-929278-16-2 , pages 89–90
  5. ↑ Gottlob Eduard Linck (Ed.): Advances in Mineralogy , Volumes 31-33, Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft, Verlag E. Schweizerbart, 1953, page 113 ( excerpt )
  6. ↑ Chemiker-Zeitung , Volume 90, Verlag A. Hüthig, 1966
  7. ^ Festschrift on the occasion of the 50-year charter on May 4, 2007 , page 37 ( PDF file ( Memento from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ))
  8. ↑ Physical medicine and rehabilitation , Volume 12, 1972, page 384 ( PDF file )
  9. ↑ Gert Michel: Mineral- und Thermalwässer , 1997, page 10 ( excerpt )
  10. ↑ Der Imkerfreund , Volumes 31–32, Landesverband Bayerischer Beekeeper, Ehrenwirth Verlag, 1976
personal data
SURNAME Genser, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Genser, Carl Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist, radiologist, chemist and balneologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kissingen
DATE OF DEATH 1976
Place of death Bad Kissingen