Georg Baum (mining engineer)

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Georg Friedrich Baum (born January 31, 1871 in Bildstock , † December 20, 1909 in Berlin ) was a German mining engineer and university professor.

Life

As the son of a haulage company in Bildstock, Baum attended high schools in Saarbrücken , Birkenfeld and Neustadt an der Haardt . After he had passed the Abitur in Neustadt in autumn 1891, he was accepted into the mining industry . On September 9, 1892, he passed the test trip to the Heinitz mine .

From October 1, 1892 to September 30, 1893 he served as a one-year volunteer with the 1st Upper Alsatian Field Artillery Regiment No. 15 in the 42nd Division . At the same time he enrolled at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg . On October 19, 1892 he became a fox in the Corps Palaio-Alsatia . On February 11, 1894 recipiert , he proved to be a Consenior and Cub Major . Since he switched to studying mining at the Bergakademie Berlin , he had to be released on October 29, 1894 without a band; but he received it back on August 1, 1896.

Since 1896 mountain trainee, he passed the state examination for the higher mountain subject in 1901. As a mountain assessor in Essen , he began to publish . In July 1905, at the age of 34, he became full professor at the Bergakademie Berlin. In the course catalog for the academic year 1905/06 it is listed with “Allgemeine u. special mining industry z. T., design of mining facilities z. T., Introduction to Mining Science for Metallurgy “. He died four years later.

Publications

  • Coal mining and its dangers . Stuttgart 1900.
  • with Hugo Hoffmann: experiments on water holdings . Berlin 1905.
  • Coal and iron in North America (travel report) . Essen 1908.
  • The utilization of the coke oven gas, especially its use for gas engine operations . Springer 1904.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d personnel records of the Corps Palaio-Alsatia.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 31 , 60.
personal data
SURNAME Baum, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baum, Georg Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining expert; University professor at the Bergakademie Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Wayside shrine
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1909
Place of death Berlin