Horst Scheffler (geologist)

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Horst Scheffler (born March 12, 1934 in Wernigerode ; † March 30, 2018 ) was a German mineralogist , geologist and museum director.

Life

He grew up in the colorful city of Wernigerode in the Harz Mountains , where he witnessed the bomb attack on the city on February 22, 1944, in which he lost his mother and younger brother. After the Second World War he passed the Abitur at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Oberschule in Wernigerode, whose predecessor school he had attended from 1944, and in 1952 began studying mineralogy at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg , in the course of which he specialized in geochemistry and reservoir science. After five years he graduated as a qualified mineralogist. Returning to the Harz, Horst Scheffler became a geologist in the Harz iron ore mines near Elbingerode , where he worked until they were closed in 1969. He then moved to the mine unit in Elbingerode as the responsible pit geologist. A year later, Horst Scheffler took an unscheduled Aspirant at the Freiberg Mining Academy , which he in 1975 with the promotion of Dr. rer. nat. completed. The topic of his unpublished dissertation is geosynclinal magnetism and sulphide mineralization using the example of the pyrite deposit "Einheit" near Elbingerode in the Harz Mountains .

After the political change in 1989/90, the mine unit became the Harzbergbau GmbH Elbingerode, whose production came to a standstill at the end of July 1990, so that Horst Scheffler took early retirement at the age of 56. When the city of Wernigerode was looking for a new director of the Harz Museum am Klint, he successfully applied for the position and managed this museum until the end of 1995. He had already been involved in the mining and geology area of ​​this museum on a voluntary basis since 1975, including the publication of the museum series The Harz - a landscape imagines supported.

Horst Scheffler was active in a large number of working groups and associations. He was a member of the Kulturbund der DDR and the URANIA , gave numerous lectures and led excursions for both organizations. He was also a member of the Isotope Geochemistry Working Group of the Academy of Sciences in the GDR and reviewed several doctoral degrees at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In the mine he headed the mineralogy operating group and after 1990 became a member of the association for the promotion of the visitor mine "Drei Kronen & Ehrt". From 1992 to 2010, Scheffler was deputy chairman of the entire working group Harzer Bergbau- und Hüttenmuseen e. V. in Clausthal-Zellerfeld . He also gave lectures as part of the series of events at the Harz University of Applied Sciences .

Horst Scheffler became known nationwide through publications in scientific journals, research reports, periodicals and daily newspapers. He also presented a number of monographs on the topics of Rübeländer caves, show mines in the southern Harz region and the “Drei Kronen & Ehrt” visitor mine.

Honors

  • Medal of Honor from Bergakademie Freiberg

Fonts (selection)

  • with Hartmut Knappe and Horst Gaevert: Show mines in the southern Harz , Harz Museum, Wernigerode 1983.
  • with Hartmut Knappe, in collaboration with Alfred Bartsch: Korallen, Kalk und Höhlendunkel , Harzmuseum, Wernigerode 1986.
  • Geological outcrops in the area of ​​the “Einheit” sulfur gravel pit . In: Max Schwab, Kurt Ruchholz: Stratigraphy, lithology, tectonics and deposits of selected areas in the lower and middle Harz. Excursion guide of the GGW conference , Berlin 1988, p. 15f.
  • with Hartmut Knappe: In the Harz Mountains. Above - underground . Bode, Haltern 1990.
  • with the collaboration of Herbert Zange, Herbert Flügel, Michael Mahlke: The Elbingerode visitor mine "Drei Kronen & Ehrt": Interesting facts about a mine: a document for the preparation and follow-up of underground visits, not only in the Harz , sponsoring association for the visitor mine "Drei Kronen & Ehrt", Elbingerode 2002.
  • Geopark Harz, Braunschweiger Land, Ostfalen: Landmark part: 13 Rübeländer stalactite caves , 5th edition, Regionalverband Harz e. V., Quedlinburg 2011.
  • with Klaus George: Baumannshöhle . Guide , 8th edition, Regionalverband Harz e. V., Quedlinburg o. J. [2015].
  • with Klaus George: Geopark Harz, Braunschweiger Land, Ostfalen: Landmark part: 13 Baumannshöhle , 9th edition, Regionalverband Harz e. V., Quedlinburg 2016.
  • Author community: Grube Einheit: Goldener Schatz im Harz . Ed .: Wolfgang Schilling. Self-published, Blankenburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-935971-85-0 .

family

Horst Scheffler was married to the teacher Gerda Scheffler († 2004) from Teplitz . From this marriage three daughters and one son were born.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in: Harzer Volksstimme from April 7, 2018, accessed on December 17, 2018
  2. ↑ Horst Scheffler: "Wonderful world of inanimate nature: Crystals, minerals and healing stones - formation and use". (PDF; 52 kB) generationenhochschule.de, accessed on December 17, 2018 (presentation at the Harz University of Applied Sciences with a portrait photo and a detailed curriculum vitae).
personal data
SURNAME Scheffler, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist, geologist and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2018