Paul Krusch

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Paul Krusch (born March 8, 1869 in Görlitz , † May 3, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German geologist and president of the Prussian Geological Institute .

Life

After he had passed his Abitur at the Realgymnasium Görlitz in 1890, Krusch studied mining and did the mining internship in the ore mines of the Neu-Deutz union , in Wetzlar , as well as in the Saarbrücken coal district. He studied at the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin and at the Bergakademie Berlin . At Franz Beyschlag he got to know the field of deposit science. He worked with Ernst Friedrich Althans before he joined the Prussian Geological State Institute as an "unskilled worker" (a kind of assistant ) in 1894, where he worked his way up to 1904 as a state geologist.

In 1895 he received his doctorate in Leipzig. Subsequently, the means opened up for him for numerous exploratory trips to the most important ore deposits in Scandinavia, Australia, Canada, Hungary and the Soviet Union in order to deal with the exploration of the raw material reserves there.

In 1901 he was appointed lecturer and in 1906 professor for mineral deposits at the Bergakademie Berlin. In the same year 1906 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1909 he was appointed department director for ore deposits and mapping in mountainous regions at the state institute and in 1920 he was promoted to department director. For his achievements he was appointed to the secret mountain ridge in 1917 . In 1923 he took over the presidency of the Prussian Geological Institute, which he held until his death. He separated the mining academy from the administrative unit with the state institute and integrated it spatially and administratively as a mining department into the Technical University of Berlin . He was chairman of the German Geological Society . His older brother was the German historian and archivist Bruno Krusch .

Works

  • Molybdenum, Monazite, Mesothorium, Stuttgart : Enke, 1938
  • The deposits of usable minerals and rocks / Vol. 3. Coal, Salt, Petroleum / T. 1. Coal, 1937 [Ed.] 1936
  • The metallic raw materials, their storage conditions and their economic importance , Stuttgart: Enke
  • The resolutions of the XV. International Geological Congress in Pretoria 1929 , Journal of the German Society for Geosciences, Volume 81. p. 543-547, 1929
  • Judicial and Administrative Geology: the importance of geology in jurisdiction and administration; for geologists, miners and engineers, judges, lawyers and administrative officials, judicial and party experts , Stuttgart, 1916
  • Germany's future supply of iron and manganese ores , Beyschlag and Krusch, ZSTA Potsdam, Foreign Office, Economics, 1917

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ schweizerbart.de
  2. ↑ May 3 (1939) in: Daily facts of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (at the DHM )
personal data
SURNAME Krusch, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1939
Place of death Berlin