Johann Westhauser

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Johann Westhauser (born July 7, 1960 ) is a German cave explorer . He works as a technician at the Institute for Applied Physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Speleology is not related to his professional activity.

Discoveries

The speleologist is an experienced researcher of the giant thing shaft cave in Untersberg , which he has already explored a few dozen times. Since 2002 he has been researching the cave in a team from the Bad Cannstatt Cave Research Group . He is one of their first-time visitors (tour from July 2002) and was one of the protagonists of this first phase of exploring the cave together with Lars Bohg, Jürgen Kühlwein, Anja and Thomas Matthalm, Ulrich Meyer and Marcus Preißner. He was also involved in further exploration of the cave, most recently in June 2014.

Westhauser has been a member of the Baden-Württemberg Cave Rescue Association since 1994 .

Accident June 2014

On June 8, 2014 01:30 AM (CEST) the then 53-year-old Westhauser in the huge thing cave in around 1000 meters depth was in a rock fall seriously injured by a falling stone. He suffered a traumatic brain injury . In an elaborate rescue operation, Westhauser was rescued from the cave on June 19, 2014 at 11:44 a.m., then examined on site and then transported by helicopter to the Murnau Clinic for further care , which he was able to leave healthy after about 2 weeks.

Publications

  • Victor P. Korolkov, Anatoly I. Malyshev, Alexander G. Poleshchuk, Vadim V. Cherkashin, Hans J. Tiziani, Christof Pruss, Thomas Schoder, Johann Westhauser, Chuck Wu: Fabrication of gray-scale masks and diffractive optical elements with LDW glass . In: SPIE Proceedings . tape 4440 , 2001, p. 73-84 , doi : 10.1117 / 12.448026 (Lithographic and Micromachining Techniques for Optical Component Fabrication).
  • Patent DE4203008 : Method for determining the carbon dioxide concentration in an aqueous solution and device for carrying out the method. Registered on February 3, 1992 , inventors: Eberhard Pechhold, Johann Westhauser. ‌

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SZ: Back in the mountains . Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  2. ↑ Big thing cave: Rescue of Westhauser for medical professionals small miracle - SPIEGEL ONLINE . Spiegel Online website. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ According to the staff directory of the Institute for Applied Physics
  4. ^ Institute for Applied Physics: Johann Westhauser
  5. ↑ Very relieved by the successful rescue of the KIT employee , KIT press release 087/2014
  6. ^ Franz Lindenmayr: Landscape and caves on the Bavarian side of the Untersberg. Retrieved August 4, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Karin Truscheit: Unlucky cave explorer Johann Westhauser. Physically fit and mentally resilient. faz.net, June 10, 2014
  8. ↑ Lars Abromeit: “Should I hang my life on this battered rope?” In: GEO . No. 1 , 2010, p. 100–114 ( article and photo gallery on GEO.de).
  9. ↑ The giant thing shaft cave in Untersberg. (PDF; 18.2 MB) In: Die Höhle , 60th year, issue 1–4 / 2009. Pp. 33–43 , accessed on August 4, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Cave rescue mission “Giant Thing” - Day 1. Mountain Rescue Bavaria, June 8, 2014, archived from the original on June 12, 2014 ; Retrieved August 4, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Giant thing shaft system: Injured researcher Johann Westhauser rescued from the cave. In: Spiegel Online . June 19, 2014, accessed August 4, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Rescued cave explorer Westhauser released from the accident clinic. In: Spiegel Online . July 2, 2014, accessed March 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Westhauser, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German technician and cave explorer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1960