Herbert Wöhlbier

Herbert Wöhlbier (born August 21, 1902 in Bergzow , Jerichow II district ; † February 9, 1997 in Clausthal-Zellerfeld ) was a German mining expert .

Life

Family and education

The Evangelical baptized Herbert Wöhlbier was the son of the rector William Wöhlbier and his spouse Elvira born Maise. He was the younger brother of the agricultural scientist , agricultural chemist and feeding expert Werner Wöhlbier .

Wöhlbier passed his Abitur at the Martin-Luther-Gymnasium in Lutherstadt Eisleben . He then studied geophysics , mineralogy and mining science at the Technical University of Munich , the Clausthal Mining Academy and the Wroclaw University of Technology . There he acquired the academic degree of a graduate engineer in 1929 and that of a doctor of engineering in 1931 . In 1925, while studying in Clausthal, he became a member of the Schlägel und Eisen fraternity .

Herbert Wöhlbier married Hildegard Seiler in 1931. The sons Reinhard and Friedrich came from this connection.

Wöhlbier died in 1997 at the age of 94.

Professional background

Herbert Wöhlbier held a position as a scientific assistant to Georg Spackeler during his studies in Breslau . After several years of activity as a department head in mining, he accepted a call to the full professorship in mining science and the management of the State Lignite Research Institute at the Freiberg Mining Academy in 1941 . In 1948 he moved to the Clausthal Mining Academy as a full professor of mining science and director of the Mining Institute. Wöhlbier, who held the post of rector there from 1962 to 1964, retired in 1977 .

Wöhlbier, who was elected a member of the International Bureau for Rock Mechanics at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin and the International Committee for Mining, was one of Germany's leading mining experts at the time.

Fonts

• Investigations on rocks of the Zechstein formation to clarify rock pressure issues in Mansfeld copper slate mining and potash mining. Dr.-Ing dissertation, Technical University of Wroclaw, 1931, Knapp, Halle, 1931
• Investigations into the stresses on the track grid in lignite opencast mines. Knapp, Halle, 1938
• Findings from previous rock pressure measurements in relation to the mine construction. in: Reprint from Mining Sciences, No. 41, Hübener, Goslar, 1955
• together with Denis Ambatiello: State of rock pressure research in Russian mining. Hübener, Goslar, 1956
• International Congress for Mountain Pressure Research in Paris 1960. Hübener, Goslar, 1960
• Relationship between chemistry and compressive strength of carbon rocks - its correlative and functional importance. Hübener, Goslar, 1961
• Flow and pressure behavior of bulk solids in bunkers - overview of research results from the Institute for Mining at Clausthal University of Technology. Institute for Mining, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, 1969

literature

• Liège. Institut National de l'Industrie Charbonnière: Conférence Internationale sur les pressions de terrains et le soutènement dans les chantiers d'exploitation, Liège, du 24 au 28 avril 1951: English text. Editions of the "Annales des Mines de Belgique", Bruxelles, 1951, p. 194.
• Mining sciences and process engineering in mining and mining, Volume 9. H. Hübner, Goslar, 1962, p. 147.
• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who, Volume 16. , Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 1461.
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 3. 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6 , p. 4335.
• Bulk Solids Handling: The International Journal of Storing and Handling Bulk Materials, Volume 17. Trans Tech Publications, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, 1997, p. 316.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 551.