Kurt Mohr

Kurt Mohr (born April 23, 1926 in Helmbrechts ; † October 13, 2017 in Clausthal-Zellerfeld ) was a German geologist who dealt in particular with the geology of the Harz Mountains and published several books on it.

Life

After military service and imprisonment, Mohr studied geology from 1943 to 1945 with a diploma in 1956. He received his doctorate in 1959 at the University of Würzburg and then went to the Clausthal Mining Academy (today Clausthal University of Technology ), where he became a scientific assistant in 1961. In 1968 he completed his habilitation in Clausthal-Zellerfeld with the work on the palaeozoic development and lineal tectonics of the Harz, especially the western Harz , which was controversially discussed. In 1971 Mohr was appointed to the Academic Council, in 1974 to an extraordinary professor of geology and palaeontology and in 1975 to the Academic Senior Councilor. In 1978 he was appointed university professor for resin geology. He held this office until his retirement in 1991.

Mohr published widespread, also popular science books on the geology of the Harz Mountains. His main work is the geology and mineral deposits of the Harz Mountains .

Fonts (selection)

• Der Devonaufbruch in Langes-Tal / Oberharz, in: Roemeriana No. 6, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1962, pp. 101–146.
• 400 million years of Harz history - the geology of the western Harz. Piepersche Druckerei, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1963
• with W. Fuchs, Andreas Pilger : Lineamenttektonik und Magmatismus im Westharz, in: Clausthaler Tektonische Hefte, No. 9, 1969
• Harz - western part, Geological Guide Collection, Volume 58, Borntraeger, Stuttgart 1973
• Harz foreland - western part, Geological Guide Collection, Volume 70, Borntraeger, Berlin / Stuttgart 1982
• Montangeological dictionary for the western Harz, Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1989
• Geology and mineral deposits of the Harz. Swiss beard, Stuttgart 1978
• The classic square mile of geology: geological hikes around Goslar , Bad Harzburg , Clausthal-Zellerfeld and Altenau . Lower Saxony Academy for Geosciences (Ed.), Hanover 1999
• The Fossils of the Western Harz: An Introduction. Piepersche Druckerei, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1986
• Geological walks around the West Harz reservoirs. Innerste - Grane - Oker - Ecker - Oder - Söse . Piepersche Druckerei, 3rd edition, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1980

Web links

• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: On the 80th birthday of Kurt Mohr, in Gursky: Geowiss. Works from the Institute for Geology and Paleontology at Clausthal University of Technology, 2006, pdf )

literature

• Klaus Stedingk : In memoriam Prof. Dr. Kurt Mohr - a Franconian Harzer . Ed .: Wilfried Ließmann (=  General Harz Mountain Calendar ). Paper planes , 2018, ISBN 978-3-86948-645-1 , ISSN  1867-5395 , p. 17-19 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Professor Kurt Mohr has passed away. (Pdf, 3.7 MB) In: TU Contact: Journal of the Association of Friends of Clausthal University of Technology. Thomas Hanschke, Dieter Ameling, December 2017, p. 48 , accessed on December 30, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Dates of birth according to Kürschner's 2001 German Scholarly Calendar
3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Gursky, Rainer Müller & Carl-Diedrich Sattler: Kurt Mohr 1926–2017. In: Geoscientific Communications. 71, March 2018 p. 88
4. ^ Kurt Mohr: Tectonic investigations in the southern Franconian Forest and in the western Münchberger gneiss mass . Ed .: Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Würzburg. Würzburg March 4, 1959 (dissertation).
5. ^ Klaus Stedingk: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Kurt Mohr - a Franconian Harzer . Ed .: Wilfried Ließmann (=  General Harz Mountain Calendar ). Paper planes , 2018, ISBN 978-3-86948-645-1 , ISSN  1867-5395 , p. 18 .
6. ^ Klaus Stedingk: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Kurt Mohr - a Franconian Harzer . Ed .: Wilfried Ließmann (=  General Harz Mountain Calendar ). Paper planes , 2018, ISBN 978-3-86948-645-1 , ISSN  1867-5395 , p. 17 .