Friedrich Karl Drescher-Kaden

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Friedrich Karl Drescher-Kaden (born May 10, 1894 in Münster , † March 30, 1988 in Bonn ) was a German mineralogist and petrologist . He researched the formation of granites and was the name creator and co-founder of the Fraunhofer Society founded in 1949 .

Life

Friedrich Karl Drescher-Kaden was the son of the Germanist Carl Maria Drescher and his wife Julie (1866–1938), born von Heyden-Nerfken . His sister Charlotte was married to the cavalry general Franz Kreß von Kressenstein .

Friedrich Karl Drescher-Kaden first studied medicine and natural sciences at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau in 1914/1915 and then took part in the First World War as an officer (last rank of first lieutenant) . After the end of the war he studied chemistry , physics , mineralogy and petrography at the University of Breslau from 1919 and was awarded a doctorate in 1922 in Breslau. phil. PhD .

In 1923 he moved to Darmstadt , habilitated with his habilitation thesis to tectonics and petrography of diorite of Fürstenstein (Bavarian Forest) and had subsequently until 1929 as a lecturer at the Institute of Technology .

In 1929 he became a full professor at the Clausthal Mining Academy . On August 1, 1932, he was accepted as a full member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) with membership number 1250567 and in 1933 was appointed Reich representative at the Clausthal Mining Academy . In this function, he should report to the party and at the same time work for the defense. However, he remained life with both the Jewish geochemist Victor Goldschmidt and the Austrian chemist and codenamed "Griffin" as an agent of British intelligence MI6 acting paul rosbaud friends.

From 1934 to 1936 he was Erich Harbort's successor as a full professor for Mineral Resources and Petrography at the Institute for Mineral Resources and Natural Resources at Faculty IV for Mining and Metallurgy at the Technical University of Berlin .

From the winter semester of 1936 he was appointed full professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , which was followed by teaching at the University of Strasbourg in 1942 .

After the end of the war he was a research assistant at the Bavarian State Geological Office from 1948 to 1952 and honorary professor at the University of Munich from 1949 to 1952 . During this time he was the name creator and co-founder of the Fraunhofer Society, which he named after Joseph von Fraunhofer .

Friedrich Karl Drescher-Kaden last worked from 1952 until his retirement in 1960 as full professor and director of the Mineralogical-Petrographic Institute at the University of Hamburg .

The main research focus of Friedrich Karl Drescher-Kaden was on the problem of the formation of granites , where he summarized his life's work in a book published in 1969 on granite problems .

In 1948, Friedrich Karl Drescher-Kaden co-founded the Heidelberg Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrography , which were later renamed Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology .

He was married to his wife Renate, née von Reibnitz.

Awards and honors

From 1938 to 1942 he was President of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , of which he was elected a member in 1936. In 1940 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in the Mineralogy, Crystallography and Petrology Section and in 1943 a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 1950 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and, after moving in 1952, a corresponding member . The former East German Society for Geosciences (GGW) , founded in 1954 and later merged with the German Geological Society in 2004 , made him an honorary member in 1967.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the tectonics and petrography of the diorites from Fürstenstein (Bavarian Forest) . Treatises of the Hessian Geological State Institute in Darmstadt, 8, 1, Darmstadt 1925
  • The feldspar-quartz reaction structure of granites and gneisses and their genetic significance . Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1948
  • Granite problems . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1969
  • Aplitic corridors in granites and gneiss . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1974

literature

  • Arnold Kramish: The Griffin. The Greatest Untold Espionage Story of World War II . Houghton Mifflin, Boston MA 1986, ISBN 0-395-36318-7 .
  • Arnold Kramish: The griffin. Paul Rosbaud - the man who let Hitler's nuclear plans fail . Full paperback edition. From the American by Gabriele Burkhardt and Ricarda Strobel . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-426-03949-4 , ( Knaur pocket books 3949).
  • Friedrich Seifert : Friedrich Karl Drescher-Kaden May 10, 1894 to March 30, 1988 . In: Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1989 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Friedrich Drescher-Kaden at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 7, 2020.
  2. ^ Member entry by Friedrich Karl Drescher-Kaden at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 7, 2020
  3. ^ Member entry by Friedrich Karl Drescher-Kaden at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 7, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Drescher-Kaden, Friedrich Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drescher, Friedrich Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist and petrologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1988
Place of death Bonn