Otto Stutzer

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Otto Stutzer (born May 20, 1881 in Bonn , † September 29, 1936 in Freiberg ) was a German geologist.

Life

Stutzer's grave in Freiberg

Otto Stutzer was born in Bonn in 1881 as the son of the university professor Albert Stutzer . He studied geology and natural sciences in Königsberg , Munich , Tübingen and Heidelberg . In 1904 he received his doctorate in Tübingen.

In 1905 he traveled to the ore deposits of Kiruna and Gällivare ( Lapland ). In the same year he went to the Bergakademie Freiberg , where he initially worked as an assistant to Richard Beck . His habilitation thesis from 1907 was honored with the Carnegie Medal of the London Iron and Steel Institute in silver. Travels led him a. a. to the USA, Canada, Africa and South America. In 1913 Stutzer became an associate professor for geology.

His research focus shifted more and more from ores to coal and oil . In 1927 the Institute for Fuel Geology was founded in Freiberg, Otto Stutzer became its director and full professor at the Bergakademie. He played a major role in the systematic development of the fuel geological collection.

In 1929 he examined lignite deposits in the Soviet Union . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . In 1935, Stutzer became the first non-American to become President of the Society of Economic Geologists .

One of his last publications dealt with the Nördlinger Ries . On his travels, Stutzer had found similarities between the Ries and the Barringer Crater in Arizona and took the view that a meteorite impact was the cause of the Ries. In 1960, the American geologists Eugene Shoemaker and Edward CT Chao were able to use rock samples to prove that Stutzer's theory was correct.

Otto Stutzer died unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 55. The highest mountain on the Nordenskiold River in Yukon , Canada was named Mount Stutzer in his honor .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fuel geological collection at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg . Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  2. ^ EM Shoemaker, ECT Chao: New evidence for the impact origin of the Ries Basin, Bavaria, Germany . In: Journal of geophysical research . 66/1961, pp. 3371-3378

Publications (selection)

  • Geology of the area around Gundelsheim am Neckar . Dissertation, Tübingen, 1904
  • Geology and genesis of the Lappish iron ore deposits . Habilitation thesis, Freiberg, 1907
  • The geology and origin of the Lapland iron ores . Reprint of the habilitation thesis. In: Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute . No. II / Vol. LXXIV / 1907, pp. 106-206
  • Geological mapping and prospecting . Berlin, 1919
  • The most important deposits of non-ores (3 vols., 1911–1923)
  • Microscopic grinding pictures of Saxon hard coals . Freiberg, 1929
  • Sub-carbonic lignite from Moscow . In: Journal of the German Geological Society 8/82/1930, pp. 453–462
  • Overview of the geological structure of the Ore Mountains hard coal basin . Freiberg, 1930
  • Oil. General petroleum geology and overview of the geology of Europe's petroleum fields . Berlin, 1931
  • "Meteor Crater" (Arizona) and Nördlinger Ries . In: Journal of the German Geological Society . 8/88/1936, pp. 510-523

literature

  • Otto Stutzer . In: Carl Schiffner : From the life of old Freiberg mountain students ... Vol. 3 (1940), pp. 130–132
  • Eberhard Künstner: On the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Otto Stutzer (1881-1936) . In: New mining technology . 12/11/1981, pp. 711-712
  • Herbert Pätz: Otto Stutzer as a fuel geologist at the Bergakademie Freiberg - dedicated to his 100th birthday . In: Communications of the Society for Geological Sciences of the GDR . 1/10/1982, pp. 26-29

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personal data
SURNAME Stutzer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1936
Place of death Freiberg