Helmut Wolf (geologist)

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Helmut Wolf (born June 21, 1937 in Troppau , Czechoslovakia ) is a German geologist , museum director and local researcher .

Life

Wolf was born in Silesia and came to West Germany after World War II . He studied geology and worked as a doctor of geology at the State Research Institute for Applied Mineralogy in Regensburg, which was founded by Karl Hugo Strunz . For many years he headed the Upper Palatinate Open Air Museum Neusath-Perschen . As chief curator in the Upper Palatinate district , Wolf had been involved in the Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria in Theuern since 1972 , in particular with the structure and conception of the museum. From November 1, 1982 as technical director of the facility. Until the end of 2003 he was entrusted with the further development and management of the museum.

Research into the geological history of the Upper Palatinate became his central area of ​​knowledge. Since 1969 he has been teaching geology at the Department of Geography at the University of Regensburg , and since 1993 the History of Technology at the Department of Archeology of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times at the University of Bamberg and at the Technical University of Munich . He was the editor-in-chief of specialist journals and published mainly as an editor on the fields of mining, geology and industrial history and designed the geological nature trails in Tännesberg and on the stake . He also created the concept "GeoAkademie Ostbayern-Böhmen", which formed the basis for the Academy for Nature and Industrial Culture East Bavaria-Böhmen founded in 2009 in Neustadt an der Waldnaab and the Geopark Bavaria-Böhmen . Bilateral he worked with the National Technical Museum in Prague in 1994 and 1996 for the exhibition "The gold in the heart of Europe" and the Georgius Agricola Foundation in the region Kaiserwald together (les Slavkov).

As museum director, he organized numerous cultural days, symposia and exhibitions on the Lower Bavarian and Upper Palatinate porcelain and glass industry, including several exhibitions on the subject of pressed glass (the first compiled by Christiane Sellner in 1986), the Bavarian-Bohemian Colloquia and the 2000 Art Summit on Monte Kaolino near Hirschau , where twelve artists showed their light and sound installations. He is a juror for the MZ Museum Prize.

He was retired on March 31, 2002 and was provisional director of the Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria until the end of 2003. Since then he has been working on a voluntary basis, for example as managing director of the Bayerische Eisenstrasse working group , for the Academy for Nature and Industrial Culture East Bavaria-Böhmen and the Friends and Sponsors Association of the East Bavarian Mining and Industry Museum .

Publications (selection)

  • Reichhart-Schacht visitor mine , (with Linus Kestel); June 1980.
  • The mining department, the Bayerische Eisenstrasse project . Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria, Amberg-Sulzbach district (publisher), Kummersbrück 1983.
  • Iron ore mining and smelting in the Upper Palatinate from the beginning to the present . House of Bavarian History , Munich 1986.
  • Maria Maier . Time symbioses. Photo collages 1995–2000 (text contribution); Series of publications by the Mining and Industry Museum Ostbayern Kümmersbruck 2000, ISBN 3-925690-45-X .

Awards

Web links

  • Heike Nasritdinova:  Wolf, Dr. Helmut . Entry in the database of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (currently not available)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Christine Schröpf: Dr. Helmut Wolf: “Mister Museum” turns 70 - Wolf's life's work: He sheds light on the region's treasures. Mittelbayerische Zeitung, June 21, 2007.
  2. ↑ a b The wolf era in the museum ends ( memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Upper Palatinate Network, December 18, 2003.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oberpfalznetz.de
  3. ↑ a b Cross of Merit for Dr. Helmut Wolf, Theuern Mining and Industry Museum . Mittelbayerische Zeitung, July 2, 2003.
  4. ↑ Dr. Helmut Wolf ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hspo.cz archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Mining Society of the Lower Ore Mountains.
  5. ^ Association "Academy for Nature and Industrial Culture East Bavaria-Böhmen" ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.akademie-neunburg.de
  6. ↑ Helmut Scheuck: For 40 years committed against the fading of history . Mittelbayerische Zeitung, November 29, 2013.
  7. ↑ Mineralienatlas – Fossilatlas .
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist, museum director and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Troppau , German Empire