Curt Alfons Haniel

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Curt Alfons Haniel (born May 9, 1884 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † December 29, 1914 in the Ferme La Bovelle near Laon ) was a German geologist.

He was the son of the engineer August Haniel (1852–1925) from the Haniel entrepreneurial family and went to secondary school in Ruhrort and Düsseldorf . After graduating from high school in 1904, he studied at the University of Heidelberg , the University of Bonn and the University of Munich , where, under August Rothpletz , he devoted himself entirely to geology and especially to Alpine geology. He mapped in the Allgäu Alps and received his doctorate in Munich in 1911 (The geological conditions of the southern roofing of the Allgäu main ridge and its southern branches from Rauhgern to Wilden). He then took part in Johannes Wanner's second geological Timor expedition (as did his cousin, the zoologist Curt Berthold Haniel), where he worked on the paleontological material of the cephalopods from the Permian . He then continued mapping in the Allgäu Alps and self-published a geological map of the Allgäu and Lechtal Alps (1: 25,000) along with a guide through the Allgäu Alps south of Oberstdorf in 1914. In 1913 he took part in the International Geological Congress in Toronto. In 1914 he completed his habilitation under Gustav Steinmann in Bonn , where he became a private lecturer. A second trip he had planned to Timor and Indonesia was prevented by the First World War, in which he served as a war volunteer in the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment No. 39 from Düsseldorf, France. He became a non-commissioned officer and received the Iron Cross, but fell in December 1914.

literature

  • Obituary by Johannes Wanner, Geologische Rundschau 6, 1915, pp. 333–335

Web links

Schmidt-Thomé, Paul:  Haniel, Curt Alfons. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 615 f. ( Digitized version ).

References and comments

  1. ↑ From 1916 to 1921 he was chairman of the Gutehoffnungshütte supervisory board
  2. ↑ Printed in the journal of the German Geological Society 1911
  3. ↑ Published in the 3rd edition of the Paleontology of Timor by Wanner
personal data
SURNAME Haniel, Curt Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1914
Place of death at Laon