Helmut Heuberger (geographer)

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Helmut Heuberger (born January 8, 1923 in Innsbruck ; † November 16, 2011 in Salzburg) was an Austrian geographer and mountain researcher. He was the son of the historian Richard Heuberger. Because of his involvement in bomb attacks by the Liberation Committee of South Tyrol (BAS), a Milanese court sentenced Heuberger to a 30-year prison sentence in absentia in 1966.

Life

Heuberger attended elementary school and high school in Innsbruck. He completed the Reich Labor Service , volunteered for military service and from October 1941 served in a tank destroyer company on the Eastern Front . In February 1943 he was so badly wounded that he was unfit for war . In the winter semester he began to study history, geography, geology, ethnology and German at the University of Innsbruck . In 1947 he spent a semester at the ETH Zurich on a scholarship . In 1952, Heuberger graduated as a geographer in Innsbruck.

In 1954, Heuberger participated as an accompanying scientist in the successful Austrian Cho-Oyu expedition under the direction of Herbert Tichy .

After various other positions at Innsbruck University, he became an assistant at the Geographical Institute in 1958. In 1965 he completed his habilitation on the subject of glacier fluctuations in the Stubai Alps , which had already been the subject of his dissertation with Hans Kinzl; the habilitation thesis was awarded the Cardinal Innitzer Prize .

After visiting professorships in Hamburg (1967/68) and at the Free University of Berlin (1969/70), Heuberger received an extraordinary professorship at the University of Munich in 1972 . In 1980 he followed the call to the Geographical Institute of the University of Salzburg, where he succeeded Egon Lendl . From 1987 to 1989 he was dean of the natural science faculty at the University of Salzburg. 1991 Heuberger retired.

In 1978 he was appointed a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 2000 he received the Albrecht Penck Medal , in 2006 the Franz von Hauer Medal of the Austrian Geographical Society .

Private

In 1956 he married Dr. Adelheid Hardorp (born March 29, 1929, † September 5, 2006); In 2008, Heuberger married Ilse Meyer (* 1922; † 2011).

Fonts

  • Glacier advances between the Daun and Fernau stages in the northern Stubai Alps (Tyrol), 1954
  • Observations on current and Ice Age glaciation in Eastern Nepal, 1956
  • Studies of the history of glaciers in the central Alps between Sellrain and Ötztal, 1966
  • The Alpine glaciers in late and post glacial, 1968
  • Type Areas of Late Glacial and Post-Glacial Deposits in Tyrol, Eastern Alps (together with F. Mayr), 1968
  • The pumice stone from Köfels (Tyrol), a landslide “frictionite” (together with T. Erismann, E. Preuss), 1977
  • Investigations on parabolic cracks and sickle fractures in the Zemmgrund (Zillertal) and the associated erosion (in accordance with T. Wintges), 1980
  • Quaternary landslides and rock fusion in Central Nepal and in the Tyrolean Alps (together with L. Masch, E. Preuss, A. Schröcker), 1984
  • The extent of the last ice age glaciation on the Mount Everest southern flank, Nepal (together with H. Weingartner), 1985
  • Mountain Hazard Geomorphology of Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Austria (together with H. Aulitzky, G. Patzelt), 1994
  • New results on the Pleistocene glaciation of the Japanese Alps (Honshu) and the "Hettner Stein" problem - a preliminary report (together with H. Kerschner), 1996
  • Paleoglaciological studies in the Ala-Archa National Park, Kyrgyzstan, Northwestern Tian-Shan mountains, and using multitextural analysis as a sedimentological tool for solving stratigraphical problems (in accordance with VV Sgibnev), 1998
  • Present structure and prefailure topography of the giant rockslide of Köfels (together with E. Brückl, J. Brückl), 2001
  • Berliner Hütte glacier trail (together with R. Türk), 2004
  • On the Holocene glacier history in the Zemmgrund in the Zillertal Alps, Tyrol / Austria (Eastern Alps) (together with P. Pindur), 2008
  • From my Cho-Oyu diary 1954 and memories, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Heuberger, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 2011
Place of death Salzburg , Austria