Helmut Fahrion

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Helmut Fahrion (born August 16, 1912 in Feuerbach near Stuttgart ; † April 6, 2013 in Hanover ) was a German geologist and palaeontologist who, among other things, "played a decisive role in the exploration of oil and natural gas " in the 20th century Discovery of Lower Austrian Hydrocarbon Deposits ”.

Life

Helmut Fahrion was born in the last years of the German Empire at the seat of his family in Feuerbach as the second child of the teacher and high school professor Karl Fahrion and his wife Helene. His older sister Marianne was born just a year before him. Soon afterwards, Fahrion's father, who studied classical philology, moved to Ellwangen at the humanistic grammar school there . Helmut Fahrion later described his youth in Ellwangen, who attended elementary school there and then also the Ellwangen grammar school, as happy.

Possibly at the suggestion his cousin who later Oberland geologists in Baden-Wuerttemberg Paul Groschopf (1909-2000), Helmut Fahrion went to finishing school in 1930 after first to Tübingen to the Eberhard Karls University to there natural science with a focus to study geology. After an interruption due to a visit to the Georg August University in Göttingen , Fahrion finally wrote his dissertation in Tübingen in 1934 on the subject of the microfauna of the Lower Dogger in Swabia .

In 1938 Helmut Fahrion joined the Geological Department of the Elwerath Union and in the following year, after the annexation of Austria and in the year of the beginning of the Second World War , he went to Vienna to work on "the geological processing of the areas of interest of Elwerath in Austria" . There Farion played a decisive role in the discovery of the natural hydrocarbon deposits in Lower Austria.

It was not until around 5 years after the end of the war that Helmut Fahrion returned to what is now the state capital of Lower Saxony, which had previously been almost 50 percent destroyed during the air raids on Hanover . Again at his former employer, the Elwerath union, Fahrion took on various areas of responsibility, but above all exploration and production geology. The paleontologist was passionate about doing outstanding things for his company, and in particular at Gifhorn he made outstanding contributions to the development of the oil deposits in the so-called “Gifhorn Trough” and, not least, to the renewed upswing of the Elwerath union.

After the operations of the Brigitte and Elwerath unions had been merged to form the operations management company BEB Erdgas und Erdöl , Fahrion became an “Exploration Manager” in 1970 with responsibility for the main exploration department. He only ended his professional career in August 1977.

Fahrion died on April 6, 2013 in Hanover, where he lived, leaving behind a family.

Fonts

  • The microfauna of the Lower Dogger in Swabia , at the same time dissertation 1934 at the University of Tübingen, [o. O.], 1935
  • HR von Gaertner (Red.), Kurt Lemcke, Wolf von Engelhardt, Hans Füchtbauer: Geological and sediment petrographic investigations in the western part of the unfolded molasse of the southern German Alpine foothills (= Geological Yearbook / Supplements , Issue 11), with palaeontological assistance from Helmut Fahrion and Ernst Wilhelm Straub ed. from the Geological State Institute of the Federal Republic of Germany, Hanover: Office for Soil Research, 1953; contents
  • Helmut Fahrion (text), Karl-Heinz Grothe (design): The Elwerath union. Chronicle of an oil company 1866–1969 , (Ed.): BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH Hannover: Druckerei Grütter, 1987

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Winfried Reiff: Obituary / Helmut Fahrion August 16, 1912 to April 6, 2013. In: Annual reports and communications of the Upper Rhine Geological Association , vol. 96 (2014), p. 453ff .; Preview and also affordable full version via E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung on the page schweizerbart.de from March 20, 2014, last accessed on July 25, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e f o.V. : We mourn for Helmut Fahrion , obituary notice from BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH & Co. KG in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) on April 26, 2013; also online on the HAZ website
  3. ↑ Comparison of the information from the German National Library (DNB)
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 694f.
  5. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Fahrion, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oil and gas geologist, paleontologist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Feuerbach near Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2013
Place of death Hanover