Gerhard Krumbach

Gerhard Krumbach (born March 22, 1895 in Hamburg , † December 23, 1955 ) was a German seismologist .

Life

Krumbach studied mathematics and natural sciences in Freiburg im Breisgau and Göttingen . Initially he worked as an assistant at the Geophysical Institute in Göttingen, took over in October 1924 as a Councilor for the position of head of department for instrumental seismology at the newly formed Imperial Institute for earthquake research in Jena . In 1922 he was one of the founding members of the German Seismological Society . In 1922 he also became a member of the Hamburg Freemason Lodge Zum Graal . One focus of the work was the investigation of local seismic phenomena, especially of rockfalls . This required work with measuring devices on site. 1938 Krumbach successfully led corresponding test measurements in copper ore mining area of Eisleben through. In 1946 the German Academy of Sciences took over the institute. In May of that year, Krumbach was appointed director of what would later become the Institute for Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Research.

He expanded the range of tasks of the institute and placed the aspects of applied seismics and ground dynamics in the foreground. He tied in with his rock-face research. According to his plans, a new institute building was built at Burgweg 11 . His work, especially practical work on seismic observations and the further development of instrumental methods, received international recognition.

literature

• Gerhard Krumbach in memory , Wissenschaftliche Annalen , 1956, p. 136