Leo von zur Mühlen

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Leo Erwin von zur Mühlen (born July 29, 1888 in Dorpat , † December 21, 1953 in Moscow ) was a Baltic German geologist and university professor .

Life

His father Max von zur Mühlen (1850–1918) was the fisheries director of Livonia, Estonia and Courland. Von zur Mühlen attended grammar school in Dorpat and Pernau and studied natural sciences with a focus on geology at the University of Dorpat from 1908 to 1913 , where he received the university's gold medal for a geological award paper and published it as a student. In 1910 he took part in an expedition to the Caucasus. In 1914 he received his doctorate from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Afterwards he was at the moor research institute in Jönköpingin Sweden and from 1915 to 1916 assistant at the Swedish Geological State Institute and from 1916 he was initially assistant and from 1918 state geologist at the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA), where he became a district geologist and remained until 1933. There he dealt with the mapping of Silesia, with the geology of Pomerania and the east of Mecklenburg (clay deposits) and mineral resources in the Soviet Union, especially in the Urals. In 1928 he went on an excursion to Turkmenistan , the Alai Mountains and the west of Tian Shan and in 1930/31 to Ethiopia and again in 1937 with a German-Italian expedition led by him to search for mineral resources. In 1925 he completed his habilitation in geology and reservoir science at the TH Charlottenburg , where he was a private lecturer and in 1933 was appointed a non-civil servant extraordinary professor. In April 1934 he was appointed full professor of geology and paleontology at the TH Aachen against the will of the responsible faculty . From 1936 to 1945 full professor at the TH Charlottenburg, where he was dean of the mining faculty from 1937 to 1942 . In 1937 he became chairman of the German Association for Applied Geology.

Von zur Mühlen had been a member of the NSDAP since early March 1930 ( membership number 207.859). In 1933 he became the chairman of the National Socialist Teachers Federal appointed (NSLB) at the Technical University Berlin and Reichsfachschaft chairman of NSLB of Geology. In 1935/36 he was councilor of the city of Aachen . During the Second World War , the expert on Russia and natural resources became president of Alfred Rosenberg's Reich Central for East Research in October 1943 .

After the war ended, he was arrested by the Soviet occupiers in 1947 during a visit to Halle an der Saale . He was taken to the Vorkuta labor camp in Siberia , where he was held until 1953. He died in Moscow.

He had been married to Auguste von Naumann since 1920. In 1918 he did military service in Germany and was a member of the Baltic regiment from 1918 to 1919 .

Fonts

  • The deposits of tungsten, tin and molybdenum in Russia, Schweitzerbart 1926
  • Under the spell of the Ethiopian highlands, Verlag Oestergaard, 2nd edition 1936
  • Basic features of the geological structure of the highlands of Wollega and the Dabus steppe in western Abyssinia, Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 88, 1936, pp. 1–29

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 122.
  2. ^ Ulrich Kalkmann: The Technical University of Aachen in the Third Reich (1933-1945) . Verlag Mainz, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-86130-181-4 , p. 49.
    Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 125.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 418
personal data
SURNAME To the mills, Leo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zur Mühlen, Leo Erwin von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1953
Place of death Moscow