Julius Wilser

Julius Ludwig Wilser (born March 23, 1888 in Wehr ; † February 6, 1949 in Heidelberg ) was a German geologist and university professor.

Life

Julius Wilser put after graduating from high school in 1907 at the Humanistic High School in Karlsruhe 1907-1908 military service as a one-year volunteer at the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment Baden 50 in Karlsruhe from. From 1908 to 1913 he studied natural sciences and philosophy, geology, palaeontology and mineralogy at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich, Berlin and Freiburg i. Br. From 1912 to 1925 he was an assistant at the Geological-Palaeontological Institute in Freiburg. He received his doctorate in 1913 at the University of Freiburg in geology under Wilhelm Deecke with a thesis on the Rhine Valley flexure between Lörrach and Kandern and completed his habilitation in 1921 with the thesis “Outline of applied geology taking into account the war experience for geologists a. Technician ”ibid. From 1914 to 1915 he worked as a war geologist during the First World War with a focus on drinking water supply and dam construction. From 1915 to 1917 he was in the hospital after a serious illness . From 1917 to 1918 he worked at the headquarters as a war geologist. In 1924 he was appointed associate professor. From 1924 to 1926 he undertook geological excursions to the Caucasus and North Africa and in 1925, 1926 and 1929 around the Black Sea . From 1933 to 1934 he was Chancellor of the University of Freiburg (appointed by Martin Heidegger ) and in 1934 he received the professorship for geology and palaeontology at the University of Heidelberg , after Wilhelm Salomon-Calvi was previously in the course of the “cleansing” of the universities from the “Jewish spirit” the university management “suggested” resigning. From 1939 to 1945 he worked as a military geologist in Italy, Greece and France during World War II . He was a staunch National Socialist (quote: "The German officials are a combat group for Adolf Hitler "), NSDAP member in Gau Baden , anti-Semite and, as an expert appointed by the Baden Ministry of Culture in Karlsruhe in 1939, one of the main actors in the Max Pfannenstiel affair . After the end of the Second World War he was no longer allowed to return to his chair in Heidelberg and was suspended from duty in 1945. Since 1935 he was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Julius Wilser had been married to Wilhelma Wilser, nee Ludowici, since 1916, with whom he had three sons and a daughter.

Fonts

• The Rheintalflexur northeast of Basel between Lörrach and Kandern and their hinterland: With a geol. Map on plate XIV. In: Mitteilungen d.Großh.Badischen Geol.Landesanst. Vol. 7.2. Heidelberg (Winter) 1914, pp. 485-639.
• Ground plan of the applied geology taking into account the war experience for geologists etc. Technician from Julius Ludwig Wilser , VIII, 176 S., Borntraeger, Berlin 1921.
• Pygopterus Crecelii n. Sp. from the upper red sandstone near Karlsruhe i B. In: Report of the Natural Research Society of Freiburg i. Br., 23, 1923, pp. 68-78.

literature

• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986. Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88834-5 , pp. 671-672.
• Ernst Becksmann, Gilbert Rahm: Julius Ludwig Wilser. In: Baden biographies . New series Volume 3, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-17-009958-2 , pp. 300–301.
• Tillfried Cernajsek: Notes on Julius Ludwig Wilser's series of publications “The theaters of war 1914-1918 geologically depicted”, In: Reports of the Federal Geological Institute, Volume 96, Vienna 2012, pp. 10-13.
• Ingo Toussaint: The University Library Freiburg in the Third Reich, 2nd, improved and expanded edition, KGSaur, Munich, New York, London, Paris, 1984.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Julius Wilser in the membership directory of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Wilser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wilser, Julius Ludwig on leo-bw.de