Daniel Schwarz (geologist)

Daniel Schwarz (born January 31, 1880 in Memmingen , † July 27, 1969 in Oberdorf am Ipf ) was a German accountant , conservationist and geologist .

Career

Schwarz was an accountant by profession and came to Oberdorf in 1906, where he liked the landscape on the Ipf so much that he never left, despite good job offers from Stuttgart and his home town of Memmingen. On hikes and bike rides, he dealt intensively with the archeology , geology and nature of the region. He did not publish his findings and findings himself, but passed them on to others. Together with Friedrich Hertlein , Schwarz examined the prehistoric complex on the Ipf; he also contributed to the discovery of the Oberdorf fort in 1912. In 1913 he assisted Gerhard Bersu in his excavations on the Goldberg . Schwarz was very knowledgeable about the geology of the Nördlinger Ries and conducted extensive correspondence with geologists and archaeologists such as Helmut Hölder , Georg Wagner , Peter Goessler and Oscar Paret . He served the giant geologists as a point of contact and funded some geological dissertations with his knowledge. His extensive collection of fossils is now largely owned by the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart .

Schwarz, who was a member of the Swabian Alb Association for 60 years, dedicated himself particularly to nature conservation . For conservationists, district administrators and the Albverein chairman Georg Fahrbach , Schwarz was the first point of contact when it came to the Bopfingen area. In addition to plant and water protection, the Ipf and the Goldberg were particularly close to his heart, and Schwarz mobilized conservationists and conservationists against its use as a building block supplier, which was planned after the Second World War.

Black held several offices. From 1911 he was the caretaker of the Königl. Conservatory and the Königl. State collection of patriotic antiquities charged with monitoring the antiquities in the Neresheim district . From 1919 he was a representative of the University of Tübingen for geological and paleontological collections and purchases. In 1937 he was a district commissioner for nature conservation in the Neresheim district, and later a member of the Aalen district agency for nature conservation. In the Swabian Alb Association from 1940 to 1950 he was the shop steward of the Bopfinger local group, which named a circular hiking trail on the local Sandberg after him.

In the Albverein and in the district agency for nature conservation, Schwarz was followed by his son, the teacher Ernst Otto Schwarz. His daughters Gertrud and Irmgard kept his extensive correspondence and his diary notes.

Honors

• 1958: Federal Cross of Merit

literature

• Hans Mattern : selfless servant of science, guardian of the Bopfinger landscape. Daniel Schwarz (1880-1969) . In: Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association , Stuttgart, 104.1998, ISSN  1438-373X , pp. 182-183 ( PDF , 243 kB)

Web links

• Daniel Schwarz in the personal database of the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography