Friedrich Lamprecht

Friedrich Lamprecht (born July 18, 1893 in Bautzen , † September 17, 1941 near Dnepropetrovsk ) was a German geologist and mountaineer. From 1936 until his death he was the Saxon state museum administrator.

Life

education

After graduating from high school, the son of a senior student from Bautzen began studying in Munich in 1913 . In August 1914, he volunteered as a volunteer in the First World War . He was badly wounded in the Battle of Verdun . After the end of the war he went to the Technical University of Dresden to study mineralogy and geology . In 1921 he passed the state examination and went to higher education as a teacher at the Dreikönigschule in Dresden . Ernst Neef was one of his students . In 1928 he received his doctorate at the TH Dresden on the subject of the sequence of layers and surface shapes in the winter mountain areas of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains .

climber

During his studies, Lamprecht was already active as a mountaineer in the climbing area of ​​Saxon Switzerland , among other things as a companion for well-known climbers such as Emanuel Strubich , Erhardt Renger and Waldemar Pfeilschmidt. He was a member of the Academic Section Dresden of the German and Austrian Alpine Club . Travels also took him to mountain tours in the Alps and the Caucasus , where he climbed the Elbrus in 1931 .

Active National Socialist

Lamprecht was an active and staunch National Socialist . In 1935 he left the school service and took a position as a specialist for local museums in the regional education office of Saxony of the NSDAP and shortly afterwards the department of the same name in the Saxon Ministry of Education, although his curriculum vitae had no reference to museum work until then. A year later he became the Saxon State Museum Manager and was thus responsible for all private and municipal museums in Saxony.

As a state museum curator, Lamprecht actively pursued the goal of aligning the museums in accordance with National Socialist ideology and making them useful for Nazi propaganda . The liquidation and liquidation of the Wendish Museum in Bautzen was supported by him. In 1937 he also dissolved the "Association of Central German Local Museums", in which museums in the states of Anhalt , Saxony and Thuringia and the Province of Saxony had been organized since 1921. This overarching structure did not correspond to the organizational principle of synchronization . Lamprecht organized the museums instead the Policy Department folk museums in 1936 founded and Friedrich Emil Krauss led Heimatwerk Saxony , one closely linked to the State of Gauleiter and Prime Minister Martin Mutschmann tethered Association to control and direct connection of all Saxon cultural activities within the meaning of National Socialism. Lamprecht became head of this specialist department and thus combined offices of state and party in his person.

At the beginning of the war in 1939, Lamprecht joined the Wehrmacht as an officer . He fell in the Ukraine a few months after the start of the Russian campaign in 1941.

Geological importance

Lamprecht developed the first complete lithostratigraphic - morphological structure of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains , which he initially worked out in his dissertation using the example of the Winterberg area and transferred to large parts of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in the following years. Since then, its stratification has served as the basis for geological descriptions of Saxon and Bohemian Switzerland.

In addition to his work on the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Lamprecht also published work on the geology of the Alps .

Publications

• The rise and fall of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains; a common geological introduction. Hartung, Dresden 1922
• Saxon Switzerland: A Geographic Guide. among employees by A. Kittler and A. Naumann, eds .: Johannes Rußner, Saxon hiking books . v. Kommerstädt & Schobloch, Dresden-Wachwitz 1925
• Sequence of layers and surface forms in the winter mountain areas of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. Dresden, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 1928 doi : 10.23689 / fidgeo-3355
• Two contributions to the analysis of alpine forms. Dresden Geographic Studies Volume 4, Zahn & Jaensch, Dresden 1933
• The layer storage of the Turon in the Saxon-Bohemian Elbe Sandstone Mountains. Reports of the mathematical-physical class of the Saxon Academy of Sciences Leipzig 86, 1934, pp. 155–186
• Large forms of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains caused by rocks and rivers ; in: Communications from the Geography Association in Dresden; NF 1934/35, pp. 111-157

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Lamprecht in the catalog of the German National Library
• Steffen Förster: Lamprecht, Friedrich . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Memorial cross for Guido Lamprecht ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 6, 2012)  
2. ↑ Saxon biography: Ernst Neef (accessed March 6, 2012)
3. ↑ GEO montan, Society for Applied Geology mbH Freiberg (edit.): Analysis of potential for inclusion of parts of Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland as a UNESCO World Heritage Site; Part geology / geomorphology (investigation of the extraordinary universal value and integrity in the sense of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention ) final report, on behalf of the Association of Friends of the Saxon Switzerland National Park, funded by Deutsche Umwelthilfe, Freiberg 2006, p. 15 ( Memento des Originals dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 6, 2012; PDF; 6.7 MB)