Horst Weber (soil scientist)

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Horst Weber (born June 29, 1911 in Reichenbach im Eulengebirge , † May 18, 1989 in Gießen ) was a German soil scientist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Horst Weber studied geodesy at the Technical University of Berlin from the winter semester 1930/31 . Here he joined the Corps Saxonia-Berlin. He later moved from Berlin to the Technical University of Breslau , where he was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. received his doctorate. He was badly wounded in World War II , causing him to lose an arm. Since the fifties of the 20th century, initially as a student of Hans Kuron , he dealt with the damage to arable land caused by soil erosion and its mapping . The usage horizon mapping he uses represents the most exact, albeit most labor-intensive, form of soil erosion damage mapping.

Weber completed his habilitation in 1955 at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . On December 14, 1957, he was appointed associate professor at the Faculty of Agriculture at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. He headed the Institute for Regional Culture he founded in 1956 until his retirement . In 1963 he wrote the obituary for Hans Kuron , the nestor of soil erosion research in Germany, in the magazine for cultural technology and land consolidation . His scientific work and the achievements of the Institute for Regional Culture were recognized in a detailed treatise on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Institute and its 70th birthday in 1981.

Publications

  • Horst Weber: Experience with field irrigation in Silesia. Breslau 1940, DNB 579506444 .
  • Hans Kuron, Ludwig Jung, Ernst Schönhals, Horst Weber: Agriculture and soil erosion. Part 1: The Rossbacher Hof near Erbach in the Odenwald . In: Messages from the Institute for Spatial Research . Bonn, issue 23, 1954.
  • H. Kuron, H. Pinkow, L. Jung, E. Schönhals, H. Weber: Agriculture and soil erosion. Part 2: The Steinheimer Hof near Eltville in the Rheingau . In: Messages from the Institute for Spatial Research. Bonn, issue 29, 1956.
  • H. Weber: Professor Dr.-Ing. Hans Kuron in memory . In: Journal for cultural technology and land consolidation. 4th year, 1963, pp. 323-324.

literature

  • Weber, Horst , in: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 1961, p. 2208 f.
  • Who is who? , 28th edition, 1989/90, p. 1450

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim Grub: Contributions to the history of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin zu Aachen, 1967-1992. Aachen 1993, p. 79.
  2. ^ Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867 - 1967. Aachen 1968, p. 238.
  3. ↑ Horst Weber, Scientific Dissertation, Breslau 1940
  4. ↑ Manfred W. Buch, Klaus Heine: A method for recording the risk of soil erosion in wine-growing areas, illustrated using the example of the Wiltingen / Lower Saar district. (PDF; 18.7 MB) Regensburg 1985, p. 183.
  5. ↑ University of Giessen course catalog, winter semester 1958, p. 38. (PDF; 2.2 MB)
  6. ↑ 25 years of regional culture at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. Prof. Dr. Horst Weber, the founder of the institute, dedicated to the completion of his 70th year of life . In: Journal for cultural technology and land consolidation. 22nd year, No. 5, 1981, pp. 257-362.
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soil scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach , Owl Mountains
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1989
Place of death to water