Kurt Pfläging

Kurt Pfläging (born June 18, 1934 ; † January 9, 2012 ) was a doctor of engineering, former mine surveyor and an author of fundamental works on the Ruhr mining industry .

Pfläging mainly dealt with the beginnings of mining, the mining history in the southern Ruhr area and the role of Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein . He lived in Hattingen and is committed, among other things, to the preservation of the Malakow tower of the Alte Haase colliery .

Works

• New knowledge about ground movements and rock mechanical processes in the near-surface mining of flat beds of coal. 1968
• Chronicle of the Seezechen Ver. Poertingsiepen / Carl Funke. 1973
• The cradle of Ruhr coal mining. The history of the mines in the southern Ruhr area. Essen, Verlag Glückauf, 1978, ISBN 3-7739-0490-8
• Update of the mathematical approaches for generally applicable forecasting methods. Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen: Fachinformationszentrum Energie, Physik, Mathematik, 1984
• Stein's journey through the coal mining industry on the Ruhr - traffic reports with maps of the Oberbergrat from and to Stein through the eastern county of Mark. ISBN 3-89570-529-2
• Contribution in Ernst Beier (Ed.): The historical development of the Ruhr area and its cities Sprockhövel, Hattingen, Witten, Bochum, Herne, Castrop-Rauxel with special consideration of mining. Bochum, Kamp, 1986
• Rainer Slotta , Kurt Pfläging: Stein's journey through coal mining on the Ruhr: the young Freiherr vom Stein as a mountain director in the county of Mark. 1st edition, Horb am Neckar, Geiger-Verlag, 1999
• Marie Luise Frese-Strathoff, Kurt Pfläging, Joachim Huske : Coal mining in the Hörde mining area at the time of Freiherr vom Stein: Coal mining in the former Hörde mining area near Dortmund and the mining operations by the upper mountain ridge Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Reden and the mining director Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr vom and zum Stein. 1st edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-929158-21-2