Hans-Joachim Martini

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Memorial plaque in Bad Sulza

Hans-Joachim Martini (born January 5, 1908 in Bockenem ; † October 22, 1969 near Hanover ) was a German geologist and from 1962 to 1969 President of the Federal Institute for Soil Research .

Life

After obtaining his university entrance qualification at the Herzog-Johann-Albert-Oberrealschule in Braunschweig in 1927, Martini studied geology in Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin and Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1934 under Hans Stille ("Large clods and ditches between Habichtswald and Rhenish Slate Mountains") ; During his studies he joined the Friborg Alemannia fraternity . In 1935 he passed the First State Geological Examination at the Prussian State Geological Institute in Berlin. At the same time he became SA-Member and he was also a member of the National Socialist Motor Corps NSKK. He then worked as a research assistant at the Thuringian geological survey in Jena, which was converted in 1939 into the Jena branch of the Reich Office and the Reich Office for Soil Research . In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP , membership number 4,669,262.

In 1940 Martini passed the second state examination in geology at the Reich Office for Soil Research, came to Prague in 1940 and became head of the Prague office . In 1941 he became a district geologist. His main task was the search for raw materials (his mentor was Alfred Bentz , who was responsible for the oil and gas search) and he found what he was looking for south of Brno in 1943 while searching for natural gas. In 1944 he gave recommendations in Prague for the construction of an underground SS hospital in Prague Castle Hill, the Vysehrad , which was no longer built. He was from 1 April 1943 untersturmführer in the 108th SS regiment Bohemia-Moravia The Federal Ministry of Economics , the BGR is, points for views on the Nazi activities martinis on an "independent commission of historians" that since 2011 the Nazi past investigated by the Ministry. However, there were no published results up to autumn 2016. The BGR itself claimed in 2016 to Döschner: The systematic historical investigation (...) of the BGR and its predecessor institutions is still pending.

After 1945

After the end of the Second World War, Martini worked together with Alfred Bentz at the Office for Soil Research in Hanover, which later became the Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Research , NLfB, and the Federal Institute for Soil Research, today's Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources , BGR. From 1958 to 1962 he was vice-president of these institutions under Alfred Bentz and their president from 1962 as successor to Bentz. He was the coordinator for the maps of ore deposits (Carte metallogenique) in the International Commission for the creation of a geological world map.

In 1962 he received the Hans Stille Medal and posthumously in 1970 the Carl Engler Medal of the German Scientific Society for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Coal (DGMK), of which he was President from 1967 to 1969.

Hans Joachim Martini died on October 22, 1969 on the way back from a business trip in a mass car accident on the BAB 7 near the Hanover-Anderten junction. Two trucks collided in the fog. Martini's company vehicle came to a stop and the driver barely managed to get to safety when he saw a truck coming from behind, Martini died at the scene of the accident.

The city of Hanover named the street Martinihof after him.

Search for a repository for nuclear substances

According to the final report of the Lower Saxony investigation committee on the storage of radioactive waste in the Asse mine , Martini and his deputy Gerhard Richter-Bernburg were the driving forces behind the use of the salt mine as a repository in the 1960s . As early as 1962 he suggested its use as a possible nuclear repository.

Hans Joachim Martini Foundation

The Hans-Joachim-Martini-Stiftung, founded in 1982 (so named from 1987, before that Hans-Joachim-Martini-Fonds) was financed by well-known industrial companies (Bayer, Degussa, the energy company Preussag and the lignite producer Rheinbraun (now RWE), the gas producer Wintershall , the steel company Salzgitter) and was closely interwoven with BGR, whereby it exerted influence through targeted funding, among other things, of expert reports and research activities. Among other things, she published studies on the salt dome in Gorleben, fracking, carbon dioxide storage and reports, which had the goal of downplaying or relativizing human-made climate change . In November 2016, the Board of Trustees decided to wind up the foundation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Bauchmüller: Petroleum for the Führer , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 6, 2016, p. 6
  2. ↑ a b Jürgen Döschner , WDR, broadcast: coming to terms with the Nazi past. Brown geologists. Tagesschau (ARD) , October 6, 2016; citing u. a. to Ilse Seibold . announcement
  3. ↑ Michael Bauchmüller, Petroleum for the Führer, Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 8, 2016
  4. ^ Obituary ( memento of July 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (PDF). Retrieved July 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ Printed matter 16/5300 of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, p. 41ff., Online, pdf
  6. ↑ HJM Foundation at lobbypedia
personal data
SURNAME Martini, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bockenem
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1969
Place of death near Hanover