Friedrich Stammberger
Friedrich Stammberger (born May 13, 1908 in Rauenstein , † March 26, 1978 in Berlin ) was a German geologist , anti-fascist and victim of Stalinism .
Life
Stammberger had been a member of the Communist Youth Association since 1921 and a member of the KPD since 1926 . After training as a typesetter in Gotha , he worked as a layouter and journalist for various publishers and agencies related to the KPD. a. at the Internationale Arbeiter Verlag, Universum-Bücherei and from 1932 at Soyuzfoto in Berlin, where he was the representative. In 1933 he emigrated to Moscow via Amsterdam and Paris, where he continued his work for Soyuzfoto.
As a correspondent for the Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ), published in Prague , he took part in Papanin's famous Arctic expedition in 1936 , during which people probably set foot on the geographic North Pole for the first time .
As part of the “ Great Purge ”, Stammberger was arrested in 1937 and sentenced to five years in a labor camp, which he spent in Norilsk , where he worked as a geological prospector in ore exploration. In 1946 he was forcibly resettled in Norilsk. He was first trained as a geological technician in the ore combine; From 1950 to 1954 he studied geology at the Tomsk Polytechnic University , which he completed in 1954 with a degree in engineering.
In 1954 he returned to the GDR, where he helped set up the central stock commission for raw materials and headed it from 1961. In 1957 he met Gabriele Haenisch in Berlin , the widow of the communist and victim of the Great Purge, Walter Haenisch , and married her. In 1961 he received his doctorate at the Bergakademie Freiberg and became a professor in 1966. In 1978 Stammberger died in Berlin.
After his death in 1978, his widow Gabriele donated a "Friedrich Stammberger Prize" as his legacy, which has been awarded annually since then, initially by the Society for Geological Sciences of the GDR and since reunification by the German Society for Geosciences (DGG) based in Hanover.
He received the Serge von Bubnoff Medal .
literature
- Gabriele Stammberger, Michael Peschke : Arrived safely - Moscow. The exile of Gabriele Stammberger 1932–1954 . Basisdruck Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86163-082-6 .
- Review of “Arrived safely - Moscow. The Exile of Gabriele Stammberger ” in the review forum literaturkritik.de of the University of Marburg
- Nils Klawitter: Disappeared in a footnote. The memoirs of the communist Gabriele Stammberger . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung 30./31. October / November 1, 1999.
- Thomas Kaemmel: How the book designer at the Universum library Fritz Stammberger became the geologist Friedrich Stammberger in the Gulag . In: Marginalia. Journal for Book Art and Bibliophilia Issue 195, 2009, ISSN 0025-2948 , pp. 32–40.
- Short biography for: Friedrich Stammberger . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- The Friedrich Stammberger Foundation - publication of the DGG Hannover http://www.dgg.de/cms/upload/pdf/Stammberger_deutsch.pdf
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Stammberger in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stammberger, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist, anti-fascist and victim of Stalinism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rauenstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1978 |
| Place of death | Berlin |