Ernst Fulda

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Ernst Fulda (born November 21, 1885 in Sangerhausen ; † June 24, 1960 in Weimar ) was a German mining official . Most recently, he headed the Technical District Mining Inspection (TBBI) in Staßfurt (before 1946 Berginspektion Staßfurt).

Live and act

Ernst Fulda was the son of the high school director Albert Fulda, who died early, and grew up in the family of Ewald Grau, the co-founder of the Rosarium in Sangerhausen. In 1904 he got a job as a mining enthusiast at the Oberbergamt Halle , with part of the training taking place in the Zeitz mining district . During his studies in Göttingen he became a member of the Brunsviga fraternity in 1905 . In 1909 he graduated as a mountain trainee and in 1913 as a mountain assessor. As such, he became a research assistant at the Mansfeld copper-slate-building union in Eisleben .

He mapped - partly in collaboration with Kurd von Bülow and Walter Schriel - the Goldene Aue , the Frankenhausen Basin as well as the Upper Carboniferous and Red Layers on the Kyffhäuser .

After the First World War , in 1920 he took the position of head of the Zechstein department at the Prussian Geological Institute, where he worked until 1945, where he was promoted to Bergrat and also received his doctorate. From 1945 he headed the mining inspection in Staßfurt, and in 1954 he retired. In the last years of his life he moved with his wife Käte to his niece in Weimar, where he died in 1960.

Works (selection)

  • Study of the formation of the potash deposits of the German Zechstein , 1924
  • Overview of the salt deposits in Germany . "Kali" magazine No. 2, published by Wilhelm Knapp in Halle, January 15, 1925.
  • The salt deposit of the Werra potash area: Lecture given at the 3rd general meeting of the Thuringian Geological Association in Eisenach on June 10, 1927 , 1928
  • Zechstein. Handbook of Comparative Stratigraphy of Germany , 1935

literature

  • Dittrich Fulda: The training as a Prussian mountain official at the beginning of the 20th century, from the memoirs of Ernst Fulda , in: Glück Auf Thüringen. Journal of the regional association of miners, smelters and miners' associations in Thuringia, issue 2/2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 133.

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personal data
SURNAME Fulda, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mountain official
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Sangerhausen
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1960
Place of death Weimar