Friedrich Herbst

Friedrich Karl Herbst (born May 16, 1874 in Bochum ; † May 21, 1937 in Monschau ) was a German mining engineer, university professor and mining official.

Training and first employment

Herbst was the eldest son of the professor at the mountain school in Bochum , Georg Herbst. After graduating from high school, he studied mining at the Bergakademie Clausthal , the University of Bonn and the Technical University in Aachen and passed the legal traineeship on July 23, 1897 and the assessor exam on October 14, 1901 . He then worked for a few months as a mountain assessor in the Dortmund Oberbergamts district , before he was appointed a teacher at the Bergschule in Bochum that same year at the instigation of the secret mountain councilor Hugo Schultz . In 1907 Friedrich Herbst was appointed full professor for mining and processing at the Technical University in Aachen. After the beginning of the First World War he volunteered at the front and was employed as a field geologist , among other things .

Further work

In 1919 the Essen mountain school association appointed Friedrich Herbst as director of the Essen mountain school . During the occupation of the Ruhr , French occupation soldiers found a number of pamphlets about passive resistance during a house search in his apartment . Thereupon Herbst was sentenced on June 27, 1923 by the French court martial in Werden to a prison term of five years and a fine of ten million marks. To serve his sentence he was brought to Germersheim , where he was released again after ten months, which he had to live under the most unworthy of conditions.

After the Essener Bergschulverein joined the Westfälische Berggewerkschaftskasse in 1931, Herbst was appointed as Fritz Heise's successor as its managing director and top head of the mining union schools and scientific institutions. During this time he initiated the construction of the new mining museum in Bochum . Since 1928 he has also headed the association magazine Der Bergbau together with Fritz Heise . With this he had also written a mining textbook that was first published in 1908 and remained a standard work in coal mining for decades. In the spring of 1937, Friedrich Herbst retired to a country house in Eifel for a short vacation to prepare a new edition of the textbook mentioned. There he died unexpectedly after a short and serious illness.

Memberships

• Reich Coal Council (until 1933)
• Chair of the technical and economic expert committee for coal mining in the Reich coal council
• Member of the board of the association for mining interests in Essen
• Training committee and accident committee of the mining association
• Chairman of the Mining Committee of the Helmholtz Society
• Chairman of the German Mining School Experts

Awards

• 1917: Iron Cross 2nd class
• 1920: Dr.-Ing. e. H. (Aachen)

Fonts (selection)

• with Fritz Heise, Carl Hellmut Fritzsche: Textbook of mining science, with special consideration of hard coal mining . 8th and 9th completely revised edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1958.
• Guide to Mining Studies . 3. Edition. Berlin 1932.
• with Heinrich Winkelmann: The historical mining museum Bochum , Bochum 1934.

literature

• Gustav Ritter and Edler von Oetinger: In chains from the Ruhr area to Saint = Martin de Ré. Experiences of political prisoners in the Ruhr area, in the Rhineland and in France 1923/24. With reference to official material , Julius Hergt Verlag, Essen 1925, p. 30.
• Karl Schütze: French and Belgian military justice in the occupied territory , printed as a manuscript, Büxenstein Berlin 1928, p. 48.
• Walter Serlo: Die Preußischen Bergassessoren , 4th edition, Essen 1933, p. 208.
• Obituary in Geologische Rundschau , Volume 28, 1937, p. 366.
• Fritz Heise, obituary in: Glückauf - Berg- und Hüttenmännische Zeitschrift dated June 12, 1937, vol. 73, issue 24, p. 572.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Herbst in the catalog of the German National Library