Heinrich Quiring

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Heinrich Ludwig Quiring (born January 31, 1885 in Hüllen near Gelsenkirchen , † June 19, 1964 in Berlin ) was a German geologist who dealt in particular with mineral deposits.

Life

Quiring was the son of Heinrich Quiring (1854–1927), director of the Halburger Hütten in Saarbrücken and builder of the Märkische Eisengießerei in Eberswalde, among others. He graduated from high school in Eberswalde and studied in Munich (with Paul von Groth ) and - interrupted from military service as a one-year volunteer in 1907 - at the Berlin Mining Academy. In 1910 he became a mountain trainee. In 1912 he received his doctorate in geology with Gustav Steinmann in Bonn (on the stratigraphy of the Sötenicher Mulde in the Eifel) and in 1914 he received his doctorate again as a mining engineer with Fritz Frech in Breslau (The gold deposit near Goldberg in Silesia and its mining in the 13th and 14th centuries ). After military service in World War I (where he received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class and the Knight's Cross of the House Order of Hohenzollern) he became a mountain assessor in 1918. From 1914 he was with the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA). In 1923 he became a Prussian mountain ridge and in 1929 he received the title of professor. At the PGLA and its successor, the Reich Office for Soil Research , he mapped a lot in the Siegerland, Westerwald, the Middle Rhine and the Moselle. From 1935 he headed the Saarland's geological research center. During the Second World War he worked as a military geologist, among other things, on preparations for a planned tunneling under the Rhine. From 1945 he was chief geologist in the central administration of the fuel industry in the Soviet zone of occupation with the task of exploring new deposits for coal, natural gas and crude oil, but was forced to resign a year later and also resigned as senior geologist at the German State Geological Institute in East Berlin. From 1946 to 1955 he was an adjunct professor and head of the Institute for Geology and Paleontology at the Free University of Berlin .

His early work on tectonics (horizontal displacements, formation of the Schollen Mountains) attracted attention. He later represented outsider theories such as theories about aether and ideas about cosmogony such as a theory of the origin of the moon from the Pacific, the dowsing rod, and criticized the theory of continental drift . He was also historically involved in gold mining.

He also wrote a book on Heraclitus with Greek text and translations from Greek. He also published on Tutankhamun and the origin of the amber in his grave. with speculations about voyages of discovery by Egyptians and Phoenicians in search of gold and other raw materials.

Fonts

  • Brief introduction to geology , Institute for Geology and Paleontology (TU Berlin), Berlin (Meusel), 1949
  • Brief introduction to geology , Institute for Mineralogy and Petrography (TU Berlin), Berlin-Charlottenburg (Kiepert) 1949
  • Lectures and writings 1911-1955 , Berlin 1955
  • Platinum metals: platinum, palladium, iridium, osmium, rhodium, ruthenium , Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1962 (Die Metallischen Rohstoffe, Volume 16)
  • Arsen , Enke Verlag 1948 (The metallic raw materials, Volume 8)
  • Antimon , Enke Verlag 1945 (The Metallic Raw Materials Volume 7)
  • The Ostasturian coal basin , Prussian Geological State Institute, Archive for Deposit Research , Volume 69, 1939
  • The precious stones in the official shield of the Jewish high priest and the origin of their names. In: Sudhoffs Archiv 38, 1954, pp. 193-213.
  • The early tertiary iron manganese ore deposits in Devonian, Carboniferous, and Pliocene of southern Portugal , Resource Research Archives, Volume 63, 1963
  • The Earth's Heat Balance as the Basis of an Absolute Time Calculation , Gerland's Contributions to Geophysics, Volume 61, 1950
  • Shell construction of the earth and ore formation , Berlin, Kiepert 1951 (17 pages)
  • Geomagnetism and geothermal depth , New Yearbook of Geology and Paleontology, Volume 9, 1955
  • Continent drift and geomagnetism , research and progress. Bulletin of German Science and Technology, Volume 31, 1957
  • Coastal shifts, climate change and migrations of the Stone Age , Prehistoric Journal, Volume 32/33, 1941/42
  • The origin of the oldest iron and steel , researches and advances, 9, 1933
  • Ancient Gold , Researches and Advances, 18, 1944
  • The Touchstone , Researches and Advances, 25, 1949
  • Prehistoric studies in mines in southern Spain , Ernst and Son 1935

literature

  • Hugo Strunz From the Bergakademie to the TU Berlin 1770-1970 , TU Berlin, Verlag Glückauf in commission 1970
  • U. Lehmann in Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Volume 8, 1955, p. 43 (for his 70th birthday)
  • Geologica Bavarica, Volume 71, 1974, p. 121
  • Andreas Küppers:  Quiring, Heinrich Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 50 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theory of Horizontal Displacements , Journal for Practical Geology, Volume 21, 1913
  2. ↑ for example Der Traum des Descartes, An encryption of his ether vortex theory , Universitas, Volume 8, 1953, Physik des Äthers , Berlin, Kiepert 1953
  3. ↑ World Body Creation, A Cosmogony on a Geological Basis , Petermanns geographical messages, supplement 250, 1953
  4. ↑ Divining rod and geophysics , Murnau, Munich: Lux 1951 (Orion books Volume 41)
  5. ↑ for example The Roman gold mining in Hispania and the "Arrugien" of Pliny , magazine for the mining, smelting u. Saltworks in the Prussian State, Volume 81, 1933, History of Gold, The golden ages in their cultural and economic importance , Stuttgart, Enke Verlag 1948. He received his doctorate in 1914 in Breslau with a partially historical thesis on gold mining.
  6. ↑ Heraclitus words resound through millennia , de Gruyter, 1959, review of GB Kerfeld in The Classical Review of 1960 there as a book by a physicist described
  7. ↑ The Descent of Tutankhamon (1358-1351) , Klio. Contributions to ancient history. Volume 38, 1960, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag
  8. ↑ The origin of amber in the tomb of Tutankhamon (1358-1351) , research and progress, volume 28, 1954
  9. ↑ For example in his gold book and Die Lage des Gold- und Amonitenlandes Punt and the first bypass of Africa , research and progress in 1947
  10. ↑ He also made contributions to other volumes in the series Die Metallischen Rohstoffe , such as the gold volume by Ferdinand Friedensburg 1953 and the copper volume by Emil Kraume
personal data
SURNAME Quiring, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quiring, Heinrich Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hüllen near Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1964
Place of death Berlin