Hermann Mälzer

Hermann Mälzer (born April 19, 1925 in Ponitz ; † August 20, 2018 ) was a German geodesist and from 1972 to 1988 professor of geodesy (from 1972) and geodynamics (from 1979) at the University of Karlsruhe .

Live and act

After attending school in Crimmitschau and apprenticeship as a surveyor, Mälzer studied surveying at the Technical University of Berlin from October 1948 . After his diploma (1953) he moved to the Geodetic Institute of the (then) Technical University of Karlsruhe. There he worked as a scientific assistant and received his doctorate in 1958. Between 1957 and 1960 he completed his legal clerkship , which he interrupted in 1959 to take part in the International Glaciological Greenland Expedition (EGIG) . Together with Dietrich Möller , he carried out leveling between the west and east coast of Greenland , which recorded changes in the height of the inland ice. Back at the Geodetic Institute, Mälzer worked in various functions until his retirement on September 30, 1988. In 1963, Mälzer and Möller organized the 4th International Polar Conference in Karlsruhe . From 1970 to 1979 Mälzer took over the chair of Geodesy II from Heinz Draheim , who, as Rector of the TH, left this function on hold. In August 1972 he was appointed professor and entrusted with setting up and managing the new geoscientific community observatory in Schiltach (Black Forest Oberservatory, BFO). Since 1979 he has held a professorship for geodynamics. In addition to the BFO activities, Mälzer devoted himself to determining current earth crust movements. In 1979, the German Geodetic Commission (DGK) issued a map for the first time based on precision levels from the (West German) state surveying authorities . The investigations organized by Mälzer on changes in altitude in the Upper Rhine Graben , in the Rhenish Shield and in southwest Germany were funded by the German Research Foundation from 1976 to 1981 .

Mälzer was a member of various national and international organizations, including chairman of the DGK working group Recent changes in altitude , member of the Research Board of Trustees for Physics of the Earth , board member of the International Center on Recent Crustal Movements (ICRCM) of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG).

His marriage to his wife Gisela († 1999) in 1953 resulted in two children. Mälzer died on August 20, 2018 and was buried on August 27, 2018 in the main cemetery in Karlsruhe .

Awards

• Mescherikov Medal 1991
• Order of the Oak Crown 1994

Fonts

• To adjust leveling networks by gradually approximating them , dissertation 1958, Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich 1959
• Changes in altitude in northern Switzerland and the southern Black Forest up to Lake Constance , Nagra , Technical Report NTB 88-05, Baden / Switzerland 1988
• (Ed.) Calculation of changes in altitude in the Bavarian main height network using different models , Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-7696-8578-7

literature

• Bernhard Heck : "Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann Mälzer passed away ”. In: zfv - Journal for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management , Volume 143, No. 6/2018, ISSN  1618-8950 , p. 411 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Heck 2018, p. 411.
2. ↑ Bernhard Ritter: “In memoriam Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietrich Möller ”. In: Polarforschung , Volume 86, No. 1/2016, ISSN  0032-2490 , p. 61 f., Here p. 61 ( online ).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Heck 2018, p. 412.
4. ↑ Bernhard Heck: "DGK Obituary - Hermann Mälzer" from August 24, 2018 ( online ).