Ernst Wall

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Ernst Georg Wall (born February 2, 1903 in Boll , † December 29, 1985 in Riedlingen an der Donau) was senior lecturer and prehistoric . After 1945, Wall resumed scientifically based and interdisciplinary archaeological research on the Federsee . Wall was a recognized expert on the history of the Federseemoor settlement and opened up new aspects of the history of the settlement through his work. Wall received for his work a. a. 1984 the Württemberg Archeology Prize.

Life

He was born as the son of the Protestant pastor Johann Friedrich Wall in Bad Boll. After elementary school he attended the Protestant theological seminar in Maulbronn and Blaubeuren until 1921 at the request of his father . There he learns Greek , Latin and Hebrew . Even then, he was already very much interested in the natural sciences, which consequently led to studying physics and mathematics at the Technical University of Stuttgart . He completed his diploma in technical physics. In addition, he completed both exams for higher education in mathematics and physics with "very good". The traineeship year at the Dillmann Realgymnasium Stuttgart (today the Dillmann Gymnasium ) followed in 1928 . In 1929, the study assessor Wall moved to the grammar school in Schwäbisch Hall , where he initiated the FAG Schwäbisch Hall (flight and working group) in the same year, the cornerstone of today's Luftsportverband Schwäbisch Hall eV The aim of FAG was design and construction of gliders , which the physicist Wall helped develop.

In 1930 he finally moved to the Friedrich-Eugen-Oberrealschule in Stuttgart. In the following years Wall had several short jobs at the Latin and Realschule Geislingen, the Protestant theological seminar in Schöntal, the Oberrealschule Ulm , and the Oberrealschule Reutlingen . It was not until 1934 that Wall got a job as a "study assessor" at the secondary school for boys (RG / ORS) in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance . In Friedrichshafen he also met his wife, Karoline Danner from Bad Schussenried , whom he married in Friedrichshafen in 1937. In the spring of 1939, he was appointed college teacher and Wall became a civil servant for life. Wall was drafted into the Air Force in September of the same year . The natural scientist Wall, as a Wehrmacht civil servant with the rank of government councilor, belongs to a research group that was formed to solve specific problems in aviation. As such, he served at the Aerological Observatory in Friedrichshafen, and later at the Cloud Research Center, which moved to the University of Prague in 1940 . After his departure, he comes back to Friedrichshafen. Further stations were Klagenfurt , Berlin , Fürstenfeldbruck , Böblingen and Reichenbach Airport in Bad Schussenried. The family was forced to move to Bad Schussenried when they lost their apartment in 1943 when they were bombed. When trying to get to Buchau in April 1945, Wall was taken prisoner in France for one year. After his return to Germany, Wall was seconded to the Buchau secondary school in August 1946 at the instigation of the "German Meteorological Service, Central Station Buchau aF". Wall returned to Friedrichshafen in 1949. In the following time Wall applied for a teaching position and entered it in 1952 at the high school in Riedlingen an der Donau (today the district high school Riedlingen ). In Riedlingen, Wall finally retired from school in 1967. Wall died on December 29, 1985 in Riedlingen. He is buried in Meersburg on Lake Constance.

On November 15, 1965 he received the Herig Medal (created by Karl Goetz, Munich) from the Institute for Handle Research in Rechtenstein an der Donau. Another awardee was the Japanese Prof. C. Matsuda from the University of Kyoto . In 1984 Wall was awarded the Württemberg Archeology Prize from the Württemberg Cooperative Association Raiffeisen / Schulze-Delitzsch in Stuttgart. In 1984 he was honored by the mayor Wetzel in his adopted home town of Riedlingen.

Publications (selection)

  • The bimetal thermometer and its treatment. In: Journal of Applied Meteorology. The weather. Volume 58, 1941
  • About the condition of supercooled clouds. In: Journal of Applied Meteorology. The weather. Volume 58, 1941
  • Where do the snow crystals come from? In: Journal of Applied Meteorology. The weather. Volume 59, 1942
  • About the formation of snow crystals I. In: Scientific work of the German meteorological service in the French occupied area. Volume 1, 1, 1947
  • The Federsee area as a subject of scientific research. In: W. Zimmermann (Ed.): Der Federsee. Publishing house of the Schwäbischer Albverein eV, Stuttgart 1948
  • The Federsee from the Ice Age to the present. In: W. Zimmermann (Ed.): Der Federsee. Schwäbischer Albverein publishing house, 1961
  • with Alfons Kasper: The cultivation of the Steinhauser or Wilder Ried. In: W. Zimmermann (Ed.): Der Federsee. Schwäbischer Albverein publishing house, 1961
  • Archaeological Spring Sea Studies. Studies on topography, stratigraphy, hydrology and chronology of the prehistoric settlements on the Federsee. (Settlement archeology in the Alpine foothills V), Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1998

Literature (selection)

  • Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Settlement archeology in the Alpine foothills V. Research and reports on prehistory and early history in Baden-Württemberg, Volume 68, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1998.
  • Association of alumni and friends of the Kreisgymnasium Riedlingen e. & V .: exercise book no.28 . Riedlingen 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ E. Kapphan: Coincidence or Necessity - About the beginning of aviation in Schwäbisch Hall. In: The Haller Propeller. No. 1, 1976, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Wall, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wall, Ernst Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Boll
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1985
Place of death Riedlingen