Karl Schmeißer

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Karl Adolf Schmeißer , also Karl Schmeisser , (born October 16, 1855 in Siegen , † April 2, 1924 in Berlin-Dahlem ) was a German geologist and first director of the Prussian Geological State Institute .

Training and first employment

After graduating from high school, Schmeißer studied the mountain subject and passed the legal traineeship on July 10, 1879 and the assessor exam on February 10, 1883 . He then worked as a mining assessor and "unskilled worker" at the Saarbrücken Mining Directorate and in the same year switched to the Cologne Railway Directorate as a government assessor . From 1889 he worked as a mountain foreman in the Magdeburg mining area and was appointed mountain ridge in 1900 .

Trips abroad

1893 traveled Schmeißer commissioned by the Prussian state government by South Africa to the diamond mining in Kimberley to study and material about gold mining in the Transvaal to collect. Back in Germany, he first worked in 1894 as a mountain district official in the Mining Authority Aachen and traveled for renewed research on the gold mining 1895-1897 Australia , Tasmania and New Zealand .

Further work

In 1897 Schmeißer was promoted to Oberbergrat and became a member of the Clausthal Mining Authority . In 1900 he was appointed First Director of the Prussian State Geological Institute; he held the position until 1906. In 1901 he was appointed as a member of the Colonial Council and from 1906 as a member of the Regional Studies Commission of the Reich Colonial Office . In 1906 he moved to Wroclaw as mining captain and director of the local mining authority . In 1916 Schmeißer was appointed the Real Secret Upper Mountain Ridge and in 1918 head of the research department for mining and metallurgy at the Eastern European Institute in Breslau. In 1919 he took over the chairmanship of the institute's board of directors before retiring in 1922.

From 1899 to 1903 Schmeißer was a member of the free conservative party in the Prussian state parliament .

Awards

Works

  • Gold mining in the South African Republic (Transvaal) and its importance for the German machine industry. Lecture at the meeting of the Berlin district association on February 21, 1894, In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers. Volume 38, Berlin 1894.
  • About the occurrence and extraction of usable minerals in the South African Republic (Transvaal) with special consideration of gold mining. Berlin 1894.
  • together with Karl Vogelsang : The gold fields of Australasia , Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1897.
  • The history of geology and mining in the 200 years of the Prussian kingdom as well as the development and further goals of the geological state institute and mining academy. In: Yearbook of royal prussia. State institution. 1901.
  • The usable natural resources of the German protected areas. Lecture at the German Colonial Congress in Berlin on October 10, 1902, Bibliogr. Inst., Leipzig 1902.
  • Natural resources and mining of Asia Minor. Reprint from the magazine for practical geology, 6/14, 1906.
  • The usable mineral resources and the development of mining in the German protected areas. In: Schlesische Zeitung. 1908.

literature

  • Hans Kruse: Karl Schmeißer. In: Siegerland, Vol. 8 (1926), pp. 21-22.
  • Walter Serlo: Die Preußischen Bergassessoren , 4th edition, Essen 1933, p. 68.
  • E. Auer, B. Müller: Bonn Numismatic Studies. Volume 1, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025380-5 , p. 297.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, Vol. 8: Schlumberger bis Thiersch, Munich 2008, p. 8.

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personal data
SURNAME Thief, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmeisser, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and director of the Prussian State Geological Institute
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1924
Place of death Berlin-Dahlem