Ernst Meister (geologist)
Ernst Meister (born September 21, 1887 in Schmiedeberg in the Riesengebirge , † 1939 ) was a German geologist .
Life
Meister began to study geology at the Friedrichs-Universität Halle and became active in the Corps Normannia-Halle in 1925 . As an inactive , he moved to the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University . At the Geological Institute he wrote his doctoral thesis on the Lias in Northern Anatolia . In 1913 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD .
As a war volunteer in World War I , he was a lieutenant and department adjutant in a field artillery regiment . Until his second serious wound in the German spring offensive in 1918 , he fought continuously on the war front .
In June 1919 he went to the Prussian State Geological Institute . Among other things , he mapped Silesia , in particular the water supply and the previously little-known springs of the medicinal baths . He became a professor and state geologist for the Free State of Prussia . In 1935, the Wehrmacht hired him as a military geologist . He died in 1939 at the age of 52.
Awards
- Iron Cross 2nd class
- Iron Cross 1st class
- Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
Works
- About the Lias in Northern Anatolia along with remarks about the red-lying and the Gosau chalk that occur at the same time . Stuttgart 1913
- with Hans Cloos : Building and Natural Resources of Eastern Europe . Leipzig 1921
- Geological map of Prussia and neighboring states . 1923, 1925, 1926
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Meister in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Master, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schmiedeberg in the Giant Mountains |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1939 |