Gustav Götzinger

Gustav Götzinger (born July 2, 1880 in Neu Serovitz near Znaim , † December 8, 1969 in Preßbaum near Vienna ) was an Austrian geologist .

Götzinger was the son of an estate manager and studied geography and geology at the University of Vienna with a doctorate in 1905 with a thesis on the development of mountain ridges . From 1903 he was an assistant at the Geographic Institute and from 1905 initially as a volunteer at the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute. He stayed there, since 1912 permanently employed. In 1932 he became a mountain and in 1936 he received the title of professor. In 1938 he became director of the Federal Geological Institute . After the annexation of Austria in the same year he had to resign from this post, but became director again after the Second World War and rebuilt the Federal Geological Institute. He was also involved in the draft of the deposit law that was enacted at the time. He retired in January 1950, but continued researching for ten years. He was a real councilor.

As a student of Albrecht Penck , Götzinger dealt primarily with the glacial geology of the Quaternary . He was a co-founder of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), from 1932 to 1951 he was its president and then its honorary president. In 1936 he organized the third INQUA Quarterly Conference in Vienna.

He also dealt with karst areas , which he first got to know as a member of the Adriatic Research Group from 1909 to 1911, and with cave research - he was a member of the Federal Cave Commission. He also mapped the flysch zone of the foothills of the Alps, for example in the Vienna Woods . He dealt with lake research ( Lunzer See ) and the question of crude oil and lignite deposits as well as landslides in the flysch and molasse area .

From 1947 to 1950 he was on the board of the Geological Society and from 1952 to 1955 President of the Geographical Society and then Honorary President. In 1954 he received the City of Vienna's Prize for Natural Sciences. He was an honorary citizen of Preßbaum.

Publications

• with H. Becker : On the geological structure of the Wienerwaldflysches (new fossil finds). Jahrb., 82, Vienna 1932, pp. 343–396 ( online ; PDF; 3.4 MB).
• with H. Becker: New fossil finds in the Wienerwaldflysch. Number Austrian Akad. Wiss. Vienna, 10, Vienna 1932
• with H. Becker: New tracking studies in the east alpine flysch. In: Senckenbergiana. 16, Frankfurt am Main 1934, pp. 77-94.
• Analogies in the Eocene flysch of the Moravian Carpathians and the Eastern Alps . Ber. Reichsamt Bodenforsch., 139-160, Vienna 1944 (1943)
• New finds of fossils and traces of life and the zonal structure of the Wienerwaldflysches . J. Geol. BA, 94, 223-272, Vienna 1951

literature

• Prey: Gustav Götzinger . In: Mitteilungen der Geologische Gesellschaft Wien , Volume 62, 1969, pp. 171–174 ( pdf )

Web links

• Gustav Götzinger in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna