Ernst Kraus (geologist)

Ernst Kraus (born July 10, 1889 in Freising , † June 23, 1970 in Munich ) was a German geologist.

Kraus studied geology at the University of Munich, where he received his doctorate (geology of the area between Ortenburg and Vilshofen in Lower Bavaria on the Danube, 1915). During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich . In 1922 he became an associate professor at the University of Königsberg (where he published the journal Geological Archive ) and from 1924 to 1935 professor in Riga . In 1937 he was responsible for setting up the military geological service of the German Army, after having been a military geologist during the First World War . In 1942 he became director of the Institute for General and Applied Geology at the University of Munich . In 1945 his activity ended there and he became professor emeritus. He held lectures on special topics such as Alpine tectonics until the 1960s.

Kraus developed the controversial at the time undercurrent theory of Otto Ampferer on and developed on this basis theories about the formation of the world's mountain ranges, especially in the Alps. He created several geological maps in the Allgäu and conducted field research next to the Baltic States and the Alps in Turkey and Morocco.

He was a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences , the Royal Academy of Sciences in Cordoba and the Leopoldina . He was an honorary member of the Geographical Society in Latvia and the Naturalists Association in Riga.

In 1959 he received the Hans Stille Medal .

Fonts

• The history of the development of the continents and oceans. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1959.
• Comparative building history of the mountains. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1951.
• The mining of the mountains. Volume 1: The Alpine blueprint. Borntraeger, Berlin 1936.
• Tertiary and Quaternary of the Eastern Baltic (= Eastern Baltic. Vol. 2 = The theaters of war 1914–1918 geologically depicted. H. 10, Part. 1). Borntraeger, Berlin 1928.
• Geological guides through East Prussia (= collection of geological guides. Vol. 25 + 27, ZDB -ID 503724-4 ). 2 parts. Borntraeger, Berlin 1924–1925.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 74.

Web links

• Works by and about Ernst Kraus  in the German Digital Library
• Obituary by H. Wieseneder in the Mitt. Geolog. Ges. Wien, Volume 63, 1970, p. 222 (PDF; 456 kB)
• Biography at the University of Munich