Eberhard Machens

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Eberhard Machens (born June 16, 1929 in Gleiwitz ; † November 7, 2018 in Bonn ) was a German geologist .

Life

After fleeing Silesia, Machens' family lived near Tübingen on the Swabian Alb in the post-war period . Machens' older brother Theodor had died in the last days of the war. Wilhelm Machen's father was a mine director in Gleiwitz and died in Celle in 1945. After graduating from Kepler-Gymnasium Tübingen , Machens studied geology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen from 1948 . In the 7th semester he switched to the Westphalian Wilhelms University . Influenced by his father and recommended by Rhenanen in Tübingen , he became active in Münster's then only Corps Rheno-Guestphalia in 1952 . After the reception he distinguished himself as a consenior . In 1954 he was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. He found his first job with the Brigitta union in Steimbke . After two years he moved to Stolberger Zink in 1956/57 . After having been in Dakar in 1958/59 at the geological office of the French colonial administration of West Africa, he came to the Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières in Paris in 1960 . For the first four years he prospected in all West African countries on ores and especially gold. Most recently, he led France's geological mission in western Niger . 1965-1967 he was back in Paris. At the same time he held a teaching position for geology in non-European countries at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 1968 he completed his habilitation on the African basement and its deposits. After three years as a private lecturer , he was appointed associate professor in 1971 . Amid great protests he was elected President of the Federal Soil Research Institute in Hanover in 1972. One took offense that he was related by marriage to his employer Karl Schiller . After a few days he took a leave of absence. In 1975 he came to the Federal Ministry of Economics as a ministerial official , which sent him to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris for four years . From August 1979 he was again in the Bonn Ministry, assigned to Department V (Foreign Trade Policy and Development Aid). As a ministerial director he was the commissioner for raw materials , especially in the area of ​​the United Nations . After German reunification , he let himself be released from his ministerial duties early in order to be able to devote himself to academic tasks again. At the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus , he took over the chair for raw materials management . 1993 emeritus , he explored the life story of his colleague Hans Merensky , the "white African".

Works

  • Radiometric age determinations as a key to the interpretation of the geotectonic development and the deposit content of some parts of the African basement . Hanover 1969.
  • Platinum, gold and diamonds. The adventure of Hans Merensky's discoveries . Stuttgart 2009. ISBN 978-3-510-65257-0 .
  • Hans Merensky: geologist and patron. Platinum, gold and diamonds in Africa . Stuttgart 2011. ISBN 978-3-510-65269-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 35/867
  2. ↑ Klaus Gerstein: Obituary for Eberhard Machens . Corps newspaper of Rheno-Guestphalia 1/2019, No. 298
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 136/200
  4. ↑ Dissertation: Stratigraphy and tectonics of the southeast Iberian meseta in the area of ​​the upper Guadiana .
  5. ↑ For basement mountains see Kraton
  6. ↑ zeit.de
  7. ↑ geozentrum-hannover.de
  8. ↑ bundesarchiv.de
  9. ↑ namibiana.de
  10. ↑ Review by Reinhard Schmidt
personal data
SURNAME Do it, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist, ministerial official and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice
DATE OF DEATH 7th November 2018
Place of death Bonn