Hans Matschak

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Hans Matschak (born April 28, 1901 in Elbogen , Austria-Hungary , † December 7, 1979 in Freiberg ) was a German engineer and university professor.

Life

Hans Matschak's grave in Freiberg

Johann Balthasar Alois Matschak, later called Hans, was born as the son of the hotel owner Johann Matschak and Barbara, nee. Kiffl was born in Theusing in Elbogen, Hauptstrasse No. 53.

He studied at the Saxon Bergakademie Freiberg and became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia in 1919 . He completed his studies in 1925 as a graduate engineer. After initially working as a mining engineer in lignite mining, he was promoted to Dr.-Ing. In 1933 in Freiberg. PhD. He then worked in the field of soil mechanics in the lignite research institute of the Bergakademie Freiberg. In 1956 he was appointed professor for mining water management and soil mechanics at the Bergakademie Freiberg. Matschak retired in 1966.

Matschak was active worldwide as an expert and enjoyed an international reputation for his scientific work on mining water management and soil mechanics. In 1951 he received the ribbon from the Corps Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen, which was restituted at RWTH Aachen University in Germany . Matschak died in Freiberg in 1979 and was buried in the Donatsfriedhof .

Awards

  • Matschak was a recipient of the GDR National Prize (1964) and the GDR Patriotic Order of Merit (1961).
  • On the occasion of his 65th birthday, he was honored with a scientific colloquium.

Fonts

  • Mining groundwater investigations in the Lower Lusatian lignite district with special consideration of the issues of planned drainage in lignite mining , 1934
  • Mining water management in underground pits , 1956 (together with Rudolf Tropschug)
  • Drainage effect of mining filter wells , 1966
  • Institute for Opencast Mining: 1953-1967 , 1967
  • Mining water management , 1967 (together with Manfred Fischer)
  • The determination of soil parameters in the laboratory and in situ , 1967

literature

  • Klaus Strzodka : Obituary for Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Hans Matschak (brown coal mining, water management, soil mechanics, April 28, 1901- December 7, 1979) in: Neue Bergbautechnik 10 (1980) 1, p. 64
  • Adolf Berve, Herbert Dieter Nienhaus, Kurt Schröter, Gerhard Voigt, Karl Heinz Weber: Chronicle of the Corps Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen, Part II - Corps Saxo-Borussia Freiberg i. Sa. 1842-1935 (1951) , main section II, pp. 264, 305

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taufmatrik Elbogen 1896 - 1907, fol. 131. The parents married on February 13, 1900 in Rodisfort, the father was a son of the Elbogen innkeeper Balthasar Matschak, the mother Barbara a daughter of the silversmith Karl Kiffl in Theusing
  2. ^ Estate 082 among the 169 bequests of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg
  3. ↑ Problems of soil mechanics and drainage technology in opencast mining - colloquium on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Matschak on April 29, 1966 in Freiberg
personal data
SURNAME Matschak, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Elbogen , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1979
Place of death Freiberg