Kurt Hucke

Kurt Wilhelm Viktor Albert Hucke (born January 8, 1882 in Berlin , † August 12, 1963 in Hanau ) was a German geologist. In the first half of the 20th century , he made outstanding contributions to bed load research, especially in northern Germany, and is the founder of the Society for Bed Bed Research , which was established in 1924 and published the magazine for bed bed research from 1925 to 1945 .

Life

Kurt Hucke was born as the son of the secretary at the state debt administration Gustav Hucke and his wife Martha, geb. Frosch, born and attended the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin. He then studied botany , zoology , mathematics and physics in Berlin from 1901 to 1904 , in which he passed his state examination in 1905 . He attended lectures in mathematics with Hermann Amandus Schwarz , zoology with Franz Eilhard Schulze , organic chemistry with Emil Fischer and theoretical physics with Max Planck . He then worked at various Berlin schools and did his one year military service . From 1912 to 1936 he was a teacher at the Joachimsthal High School, which had since been moved to Templin ( Uckermark ). In 1935 he was promoted to senior studies director, in 1936 he moved to the Heinrich von Kleist School in Frankfurt (Oder) and in 1940 to the Paul Gerhardt School in Lübben , where he worked until 1945. At the end of the Second World War, he and his family fled to Schleswig-Holstein . There he settled in Plön, where he lived until 1963. A few months after moving to Hanau, he died of a heart attack.

The results of his research on bed load are still highly regarded, especially in northern Germany and the Netherlands. In his estate there was a manuscript with the title Introduction to bed load research from 1948. Ehrhard Voigt expanded this manuscript and published it in 1967 as a book under this title. The introduction to bed load research is still considered a standard work on bed bed research in northern Germany and the neighboring countries.

Of his other writings on Quaternary geological topics, including numerous articles published in the Zeitschrift für Geschiebeforschung , the book Die Sedimentärgeschiebe des Norddeutschen Flachlandes , published in 1917, deserves special mention. The extensive specialist library from Kurt Hucke's estate is now in the Archives for History of History at the University of Hamburg.

In 1962 (on the occasion of his 80th birthday) Kurt Hucke was awarded the Kiel University Medal in recognition of his scientific merits.

Since 1910 Hucke was married to Martha Kessner (* April 9, 1886 - January 28, 1937), with whom he had two daughters, Käthe (* December 10, 1912) and Renate (* September 12, 1919), as well as a son, Karl (* June 7, 1911 - October 26, 1989), had. The latter was the prehistoric director of the local history museum in Plön.

Works

• Geological excursions in the Mark Brandenburg. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1911, ( digitized version of the Weidmann edition, Berlin 1910)
• The sedimentary debris of the north German plains. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1917
• Diluvial problems. Michaal, Güstrow i. M. 1921; at the same time: Dissertation, University of Rostock, 1921
• Geology of Brandenburg. F. Enke, Stuttgart 1922
• Introduction to bed load research. Nederlandse Geologische Vereniging, Oldenzaal 1967

literature

• Kurt Hucke: Introduction to bed load research . Nederlandse Geologische Vereniging, Oldenzaal 1967. With a preface (short biography of the author) by WF Anderson.
• Ehrhard Voigt : Obituary for Dr. Kurt Hucke (1882–1963). In: Ice Age and the Present. Volume 16, Hohenlohe'sche Buchhandlung, Öhringen 1965, pp. 240–248 (with picture and catalog raisonné). doi : 10.3285 / eg.16.1.18

Web links

• Kurt Hucke's personnel form in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)