Friedrich von Raupach

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Friedrich von Raupach (born October 25, 1906 in Harbin , China , † July 29, 1992 in Bonn ) was a German geologist.

Friedrich von Raupach was the son of a German-born Russian doctor. In 1925 he graduated from a Russian private high school in Harbin, took on German citizenship in the same year and began to study geology, mineralogy and geophysics in Göttingen, Jena, Hamburg and Leipzig. In 1933 he received his doctorate in Leipzig ( stratigraphic and tectonic development of the Russian Far East, Manchuria and central Mongolia ) and was then assistant in Halle (where he dealt with lignite in the Geiseltal ) and oil geologist at Deutsche Petroleum AG in Wietze . From 1938 he was at the Prussian Geological State Institute . In 1942 he passed his state examination and became a qualified geologist. During the Second World War, from 1942, he was initially an interpreter on the Eastern Front and then a military geologist. After a brief Soviet captivity, he worked for the German State Geological Institute in East Berlin from 1946, where he became head of the brown coal department in 1949. He was also a member of the State Appreciation Advisory Board for Soil Appreciation in Saxony. From 1953 he was at the Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Research, where he dealt, among other things, with soil mapping and soil science. From 1960 until his retirement in 1971 he was at the Military Geography Office in Bonn, where he dealt with military geology (geological assessment of the terrain).

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  1. ↑ F. Bettenstaedt, W. Beyn, M. Köck, von Raupach The current status of Geiseltal research, the structure of the coal profile of the Cecilie and Leohhardt pits and the leveling of the vertebrate finds , Nova Acta Leopoldina, New Series, Volume 3, No. 11, 1935
  2. ↑ von Raupach Die Plaggenboden des Südwestlichen Ammerlandes , Oldenburger Jahrbuch, Volume 55/2, 1955, H. Fastabend, von Raupach On the knowledge of the Plaggenboden in Nordwestdeutschland , Geologisches Jahrbuch, Volume 78, 1961, pp 129–172
personal data
SURNAME Raupach, Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Harbin
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1992
Place of death Bonn