Hans Spethmann

Hans Spethmann (born December 11, 1885 - March 19, 1957 ) was a German economic geographer and geologist . He lived in Essen , among other places , where he worked for the mining association . He spent his old age in Lübeck .

His first publications dealt with the geology and morphology of the Baltic Sea before he became an assistant at Otto Krümmel in Kiel . He wrote papers on Icelandic culture .

As a 22-year-old student, he took part in an Iceland expedition in July 1907 under the direction of the Berlin scientists Walther von Knebel and Max Rudloff to geological exploration of the little-known Askja volcanic massif and its crater lakes Öskjuvatn and Víti (Askja) in the central Icelandic highlands. Thereby came v. Knebel and Rudloff probably perished on the lake on July 10, 1907 while exploring the larger Öskjuvatn. Spethmann survived because at that time he was doing research in Askja, far from the scene of the accident. After his return to the base, he did not find the two researchers and the boat. He remained the only source of information for the unfortunate event. In August 1907 he accompanied another Icelandic search expedition to shed light on the fate of the missing, which due to the mysterious circumstances has not yet been fully clarified. In September he returned to Germany.

Spethmann taught, among other things, as a private lecturer at the universities of Zurich , Berlin and Cologne .

He wrote numerous treatises on the geology and economic geography of Central Europe, in particular important publications on the Ruhr area and Ruhr mining . He also dealt with the lives of Hans von und zu Loewenstein , Franz Haniel , Johann Dinnendahl , Franz Dinnendahl , Ernst Honigmann and Friedrich Marthe .

In the spring of 1913 Spethmann founded together with Cahnheim, Herrmann and Henry Erkes Association of Iceland Friends , which lasted until the Second World War. He was on the board of the Cologne Society.

He was born with Margarethe Spethmann. Besthorn married. His son Dieter Spethmann was a lawyer and former CEO of Thyssen . His estate of writings, including unpublished manuscripts and a collection of posters from the years 1916 to 1924, is now in the Essen City Archives .

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Independent publications

• Studies of the soil composition of the Baltic Depression from the Kattegat to Gotland Island. Publishing house Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1911.
• The big economy on the Ruhr. Ferdinand Hirt publishing house, Breslau 1925.
• Dynamic geography. Wroclaw 1928.
• Twelve years of mining in the Ruhr. From its history from the beginning of the war to the French march 1914–1925. 5 volumes. Reimar Hobbing Publishing House , Berlin 1928–1931.
  • Volume 1: uprising and strikes up to the 2nd general strike in April 1919.
  • Volume 2: uprisings and strikes before and after the Kapp Putsch up to the occupation of the Ruhr.
  • Volume 3: The Ruhrkampf 1923 to 1925 in its guidelines.
  • Volume 4: The Ruhr War 1923 to 1925 The struggle for coal.
  • Volume 5: The Ruhr War 1923 to 1925 in pictures.
• Deutsche Icelandforschung 1930. Edited by Walther Heinrich Vogt and Hans Spethmann with the support of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft. F. Hirt publishing house, Breslau 1930.
• The regional schema in German geography. Fight for progress and freedom. Publishing house R. Hobbing, Berlin 1931.
• Fate in the landscape. Publishing house R. Hobbing, Berlin 1932.
• The Red Army on the Ruhr and Rhine. 3. Edition. Publishing house R. Hobbing, Berlin 1932.
• The Ruhr area in the interplay of country and people, economy, technology and politics. Vol. 1–3: Verlag Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1933. Vol. 4–5: Klartext Verlag, Essen 2011 (first publication of posthumous manuscripts)
  • Volume 1: From the pre-Roman times to the shape of a district in the middle of the 18th century.
  • Volume 2: The development into a major area since the middle of the 18th century.
  • Volume 3: The Ruhr area of ​​the present.
  • Volume 4: The Ruhr area of ​​the present (2).
  • Volume 5: The Ruhr area of ​​the present (3).
• The May strike in 1924 in the Ruhr mining industry. Publishing house R. Hobbing, Berlin 1932.
• Ruhr area and Westphalia area. Economically critical additions to the work "The Westphalia region". 110 pages, Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1933.
• On foreign paths in USA. R. Hobbing, Berlin 1934.
• Half a decade because of the "dynamic geography" by a German university geographer officially disciplined. R. Hobbing, Berlin 1934.
• Friedrich Marthe: a forgotten German geographer. Publishing house R. Hobbing, Berlin 1935.
• Fifty years of the association of technical mine officials, Oberhausen 1885–1935. Publishing house Bertenburg, Gelsenkirchen 1935.
• The Association of Technical Mine Officials 1886–1936. Festschrift. Bertenburg publishing house, Gelsenkirchen 1936.
• How our Ruhr area became. Paul Schmidt publishing house, Berlin 1936.
• The historical development of Ruhr mining around Witten and Langendreer. Publishing house Bertenburg, Gelsenkirchen 1937.
• The city of Essen. Publishing house for social policy, economy and statistics, Berlin 1938.
• My farewell to geographic teaching. Social Policy Publishing House, Berlin 1938.
• Hans von und zu Loewenstein. Verlag Glückauf, Essen 1939.
• Report on the status of Haniel research. Essen 1939.
• From the family of the Spethmanns. Self-published, Essen 1941.
• New results from Dinnendahl research. Self-published, Essen 1942.
• The role of Ernst Honigmann in the emergence of the marl shafts in the Ruhr area. Self-published, Essen 1942.
• Building blocks for the history of the Rheinisch-Westphalian coal syndicate. Self-published, Essen 1943.
• The Märkische Ruhr coal mining from 1539 to 1662. Self-published, Essen 1944.
• The first marl mines in the Ruhr area. Self-published, Essen 1947.
• The conquest of the Ruhr area in the spring of 1945. Fredebeul & Koenen Verlag, Essen 1950.
• The early days of the Ruhrort port. Glückauf Verlag, Essen 1950.
• Franz Haniel. His life and his works. Haniel, Duisburg-Ruhrort 1956.

Dependent publications

• Ancylus Sea and Litorina Sea in the southwestern Baltic Sea basin. In: Communications of the Geographical Society. Lübeck 1907
• Depth map of the Beltsee. In: Petermann's communications. 1911.
• The water balance of the Baltic Sea. In: Zeitschrift Ges. Geography. Berlin 1912.
• Studies on the oceanography of the southwestern Baltic Sea. In: Int. Rev. tot. Hydrobiology. 1915.
• The beginnings of the coke industry in the Ruhr area. In: Essen contributions . No. 62, 1947, pp. 31-84.
• The conquest of the Ruhr area in spring 1945. In: Essener contributions. No. 65, 1950, pp. 43-91.
• Studies on the flanks of the Bodten shore. In: The coast. Kiel 1952.
• Research in the innermost corner of the southwestern Baltic Sea. In: Communications of the Geographical Society Lübeck. 1953.
• The Ruhr area in the field of geographic studies. In: 29th German Geographers' Day, Essen 1953. Volume 29, pp. 31–36.
• The battle of the Schölerpad colliery for civil engineering under the direction principle. In: Essen contributions. No. 70, 1955, pp. 23-54.
• The Essen-Werdensche mining during the transition to Prussia in 1802 In: Essener contributions. No. 71, 1956, pp. 59-115.

literature

• Th. Stocks: Hans Spethmann on his 70th birthday. In: German Hydrographic Journal . Volume 8, 1955, p. 165.
• Beatrix Löffler-Erkes: Dr. Hans Spethmann. In: Iceland News . 1, No. 1, 1957, pp. 3-4.
• Lutz Mohr : Iceland - fascination and mystery. Tragedy of German researchers on the Icelandic crater lake. For Iceland's national holiday on June 17th. In: Greifswalder Blitz on Wednesday. Volume 2, No. 48 of June 14, 1995, pp. 1f.
• Frank Schroeder : The Eisumschlungene. Searching for traces in Iceland. LundiPress Verlag, Eichstätt 1995, ISBN 3-9801648-3-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Spethmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The association and its goals. (No longer available online.) Gesellschaft der Freunde Islands eV Hamburg, formerly the original ; Retrieved March 1, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.