Eberhard Clar

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Eberhard Clar (born July 23, 1904 in Graz , † December 7, 1995 in Bad Ischl ) was an Austrian geologist and university professor .

Life

Clar studied natural history , physical education and geology at the University of Graz , where he received his doctorate in 1926. Afterwards he was assistant to Alexander Tornquist at the TH Graz , habilitated in applied geology and petrography in 1929 and extended his teaching license to geology and paleontology in 1936 . From 1939 he was an associate professor at the TH Graz, in 1944 he was appointed professor of geology as the successor to Josef Stini at the TH Vienna .

The appointment in 1939 was closely related to his political commitment, which Clar aligned with his career-political goals: Since 1919 a member of the German Gymnastics Association, he became a member of the Patriotic Front in the Austro-Fascist corporate state in 1937/38 . At the same time, however, he was also "illegal" and had been a member of the NSDAP since March 1933 ( membership number 1.628.952) and was also a member of the Pan-German Association . Clar belonged to the National Socialist German Lecturer Association in 1937/38, even before the "Anschluss" . After the regime change in 1938, Clar was head of the "District Office for Technology with the district administration of the NSBDT " in Graz-Land . The suitability report and the dean's assessment of the appointment in 1939 emphasized Clar's political commitment as a National Socialist and “impeccable fighter” since 1933.

During the Second World War , Clar was “employed as a geologist by the General Representative for Metal Ore Mining Southeast”.

After the war, Clar was a freelance construction geologist and consultant for mineral deposits at the Styrian Erzberg , from 1949 geologist at the iron ore mining Hüttenberg in Carinthia. In 1951 he became head of the newly established deposit research center at the Austrian Alpine Mining Society . In 1954 he was called to Vienna again, this time to the University of Vienna , where he stayed until his retirement in 1972. In 1968 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Structure compass

The versatile geologist was a member of the Austrian reservoir commission and from 1957 to 1958 president of the Austrian Geological Society . His work includes numerous geological maps , including a. in the Graz Paleozoic and in the Großglockner area , as well as specialist articles on deposit and structural studies . In the course of the latter activity he developed the geological compass named after him , in which strike and fall are measured in one.

Honors

In 1965 he received an honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology . In 1966 he received the Leopold von Buch badge . In 2009 the Clarplatz in Vienna- Hietzing (13th district) was named after him.

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  1. ↑ a b Vienna's street names since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 281f, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  2. ↑ TU Wien: Honorary doctorates ( memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 26, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tuwien.ac.at
personal data
SURNAME Clar, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1995
Place of death Bad Ischl