Kurt habenicht

Kurt habenicht (born February 16, 1881 in Plauen , † April 4, 1971 in Regensburg ) was a German lawyer and geologist .

Career

Have not studied in Leipzig and after receiving his doctorate in 1907 (The Honorary Acceptance) worked as a lawyer and (from 1923) notary, first in 1909 in Treuen , from 1919 in Plauen . In 1944 his license to practice law was revoked because of open criticism of National Socialism. Towards the end of the Second World War he was evacuated from Saxony and stayed with his brother-in-law in the Upper Palatinate (Roding).

On 10 July 1945, he was from the US military government as district administrator of the district Roding used. He remained in office until June 11, 1946. Then he was chairman of the Senate of the Appeals Chamber for the Niederbayern-Oberpfalz administrative district in Regensburg, where appeals against decisions by the chambers on denazification were negotiated. This existed until 1948. From 1947 he was a lawyer in Regensburg.

In addition to law, he also studied geology in Leipzig. In 1920 he founded the Geological Association of Vogtland and was its chairman until 1939. He was also the second chairman of the Thuringian Geological Association. He was known as a connoisseur of the crystalline basement mountains of Bavaria and published a geological hiking guide for the area around Regensburg. He bequeathed his rock collection to the Vogtland District Museum and Natural History Museum.

Fonts

• Geological hiking destinations in the Kristallin north to east of Regensburg, Regensburg: Central Bavaria. Printing and Verl.-Ges. 1950
• with Werner Schreyer: The granite from Neustift near Vilshofen in Niederbayern, Munich: Bayer. Geolog. State Office, 1959

literature

• Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia, De Gruyter, Saur