Peter Beck-Mannagetta

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Peter Beck-Mannagetta (born June 21, 1917 in Vienna ; † November 20, 1998 in Baden ) was an Austrian geologist. The Mannagetta oven , a striking rock formation west of Marhof , municipality of Stainz in Styria, is named after him.

Life

Peter Beck-Mannagetta was the child of the section head in the Ministry of Finance Eugen Beck Ritter von Mannagetta and Lerchenau and his wife Paula, nee. Westhauser and a grandson of the public prosecutor Josef Beck von Mannagetta and Lerchenau . One of his uncles was the botanist Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau , another was the kk  secret council and chairman of the kk patent office Paul.

He completed his school days at the Hegelgasse elementary school and the Schottengymnasium in Vienna , where he passed the Matura on June 9, 1936 . After serving in the military as a one-year volunteer in 1936/37, he studied geology at the University of Vienna and on April 10, 1941 passed the teaching examination for the then natural history subject . The studies took place as part of his military service leave from the front, which brought him to Poland and Russia. His dissertation deals with the upper reaches of the Laßnitz , the preparatory work for it resulted from the work in the context of the water management general planning for Styria.

His doctorate in natural sciences ( Dr. rer. Nat. ) Took place on February 10, 1941. From June 1942 he was an assistant at the Geological Institute of the University of Vienna. In November 1943 he worked in defense geology in Berlin-Wannsee and Siegen , then in France, Italy, Hungary and Slovakia. Most recently, he was a non-commissioned officer, his wartime ending on May 17, 1945 when he was released from captivity by the American army .

He worked as an assistant at the University of Vienna until February 10, 1947, then at the Federal Geological Institute . His professional activity over the next few decades included work on the geological maps of the Koralpen region, which led to a number of geological and petrological publications. On January 1, 1953, he was appointed geologist, on January 1, 1960, chief geologist, and on January 1, 1974, district geologist for Carinthia and Styria. In this function, he further developed the good relationships between the Federal Geological Institute and the regional offices of Carinthia and Styria, which benefited his work.

Peter Beck-Mannagetta made the first in 1951 to a mineral resource on fire back in the wine level attention (as the lithium - mineral spodumene very similar diopside - aplite ). After closer examination, this site turned out to be the largest occurrence of lithium in Europe. His discoveries also include the occurrence of gabbro and eclogite at the Bärofen southwest of the Hebalm .

Peter Beck-Mannagetta is the author of a series of geological maps covering areas of the Lavanttal Alps . On behalf of the Ligist forest operations of the Order of Malta , one of the largest landowners in the area, he worked out the geological basis of the forests in the Hebalm area. From 1964 Peter Beck-Mannagetta worked as an expert in engineering geology and mineralogy and represented Austria in international associations such as the Carpatho-Balkan Geological Association.

From 1962 to 1997 he was the curator of the Johann Wilhelm Ritter von Beck Mannagetta Foundation, which supports students from Lower Austria with scholarships. This foundation was created from the fortune of the imperial personal physician Johann Wilhelm Mannagetta (1588–1666), the physician of the Emperor Ferdinand II. , Ferdinand III. and Leopold I. had been.

As a representative of the interests of the employees at the Federal Geological Institute, Peter Beck-Mannagetta worked as a staff representative from 1967 and participated in the design of remuneration rules, some of which were created at his suggestion (book allowance, height allowance). The staff representation at this institution was founded by him.

At the suggestion of Peter Beck-Mannagetta, several geologically significant objects were declared natural monuments: 1967 a rock formation in Marhof near Stainz , which was named after him for the Mannagetta furnace , 1973 the rock outcrops in the beach area of ​​the Tertiary Sea with clam tracks and beach conglomerate on the Triassic dolomite in Bad Vöslau and the Königshöhle near Baden , after whose archaeological finds the Baden culture is named. He also suggested protecting a number of umbrella pines in the communities of Baden and Mödling .

He supported the referendum against the construction of the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant and pointed out the geological fault zones below the intended construction site. Peter Beck-Mannagetta campaigned for the preservation of the Hainburger Au and other landscapes worthy of protection, so he opposed the establishment of a nuclear waste storage facility on the Rosenhügel west of Stainz .

At the end of 1982 Peter Beck-Mannagetta retired. He had been married to Ruth Graeber from Bielefeld (Westphalia) since 1944, and the marriage had three children. Peter Beck-Mannagetta is buried at the Weidlinger Friedhof in Klosterneuburg .

Works

From 1940 to 1995 Peter Beck-Mannagetta published reports on his geological investigations (recording reports) in the Lavanttal Alps almost annually in the negotiations and in the yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute. The following compilation only contains an overview of his additional publications:

  • with Martin Kirchmayer: The Beck-Mannagettasche summit hollow in the Koralpe slab gneiss, Styria, Austria. Self-published, Vienna 1992.
  • Geological map of the Republic of Austria 1: 50,000. Sheet 189 Deutschlandsberg . Federal Geological Institute, Vienna 1991.
  • with Martin Kirchmayer: Structural geology yesterday, today, tomorrow: about the structure of the slab gneiss in the Koralpe. In: TSK III: 3rd symposium for tectonics , structural geology, crystalline geology in German-speaking countries. Graz, 19. – 21. April 1990 (abstracts of the lectures and posters). Graz 1990.
  • with Martin Kirchmayer: The quartz , mica and feldspar grain structures in the eight plate gneiss complexes of the Koralpe. In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute. Volume 131, Vienna 1988, pp. 505-532 ( PDF; 2.2 MB on geologie.ac.at).
  • with Martin Kirchmayer: On the structure of the slab gneiss in the Koralpe - Carinthia, Styria. In: Anzeiger der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematical-scientific class. Volume 124, Vienna 1988, pp. 29-33.
  • with Ilse Draxler : On the stratigraphic significance of the new fossil finds on the Brenner saddle ( Schönweg , Lavanttal ). In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute. Volume 129, Vienna 1987, pp. 491–494 ( PDF; 497 kB on geologie.ac.at).
  • with Martin Kirchmayer: About the complexity of the slab gneiss line of the Koralpe (SE Austria) seen in the sense of Amstutz's concept of congruence and from a structural point of view. In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute. Volume 130, Vienna 1987, pp. 375–381 ( PDF; 690 kB on geologie.ac.at).
  • “ Erdpech ” in Bad Deutsch Altenburg : Early references to valuable raw materials in the Vienna Basin . In: Culture reports of Lower Austria. Born 1987, Issue 5, Vienna 1987, p. 3.
  • Geological overview map of the Republic of Austria 1: 1,000,000. Federal Geological Institute, Vienna 1986.
  • The Koralpe. In: Helmut Flügel, Franz Neubauer: Geological map of Styria. 1: 200,000. In: Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute. Vienna 1984.
  • Geological map of the Republic of Austria 1: 50,000. Sheet 188 Wolfsberg . Federal Geological Institute, Vienna 1980.
  • Revier Hebalpe. Geological map of the Sovereign Order of Malta. 1: 10,000. With explanations, Vienna 1980.
  • Lunz layers in Baden near Vienna. With contributions by Ilse Draxler and Gerda Woletz. In: Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute. Volume 1979, part 2, Vienna 1979, pp. 3–5.
  • Geology of the area around Stainz . In: Hans Wilfinger: 800 years of Stainz 1177–1977. New Stainzer Heimatbuch. Stainz 1979, pp. 11-17.
  • with E. Szadecky-Kardoss, R. Arkai: Map of metamorphites of the Carpatho - Balkan - Dinaride Area. 1: 1,000,000 = Karta metamorfitov Karpato-Balkansko-Dinarskoj oblasti. Carpatho-Balkan Geological Association, Commission on Igneous and Metamorphic Petrography, published by Laboratory and Geochemical Research of Hungarian Acadademy of Science and Central Office of Geology, Budapest 1976.
  • About the construction and development of the Eastern Alps with a view of Western Hungary. In: Acta Geologica Academia Sciencia Hungary. Volume 20, Budapest 1976, pp. 125-134.
  • with O. Thiele, M. Mahel, R. Pucky, J. Varga: Tectonic Map of the Carpathian-Balkan Mountain System and adjacent Areas 1: 1 million Carpathian-Balkan Association, Tectonic Commission Bratislava , Stur, UNESCO, Bratislava 1973.
  • The Mannagetta Foundation. In: Culture reports from Lower Austria (supplement to the official news of the Lower Austrian provincial government), V, Vienna 1967, pp. 35–36.
  • Explanations of the geological map and the map of deposits 1: 1,000,000 of Austria. Federal Geological Institute, Vienna 1966.
  • On the 300th anniversary of the death of Johann Wilhelm Ritter v. Mannagetta and his work in Lower Austria. In: Our home. Volume 37, Vienna 1966.
  • Geological site map of the city of Wolfsberg. 1: 2000. 13 blades and 2000 drill profiles. 1963.
  • Report on the study trip through the Scottish Highlands in 1961. In: negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute. Volume 3, Vienna 1962, p. 17.
  • Forst Ligist . Geological map of the Sovereign Order of Malta. 1: 10,000, Vienna 1962.
  • The Lavant . Geological description. For the Austrian hydropower cadastre, Vienna 1960.
  • Geological map of the Ligist Forest of the Sovereign Order of Malta. 1: 10,000, Vienna 1959.
  • Tectonic overview map of Lower Austria with a selection of the map documents used. Scale 1: 500,000. In: Atlas of Lower Austria. Commission for spatial research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria and Vienna. Freytag-Berndt and Artaria, Vienna 1958.
  • Wolfsberg district , geological overview map 1: 100,000. In: Richard Wurzer: Lavanttal planning atlas. Sheet 7, Carinthian print shop, Klagenfurt 1956.
  • Reshaping of a hollow in the summit area of ​​the Koralpe. In. Announcements of the Geological Society in Vienna. 45th volume, Vienna 1952, pp. 113-134 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • The dissolution of the mechanics of the Wolfsberger series, Koralpe, Carinthia. In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute. Volume 94, years 1949/51, pp. 127–159 ( PDF; 2.3 MB on geologie.ac.at).
  • About today's knowledge of the tertiary in the lower Lavanttale (Carinthia). In: H. Küpper, L. Waldmann: Reconstruction and centenary of the Federal Geological Institute. June 12, 1951. In: Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute. 1952, special issue C, Vienna 1952, pp. 111–144 ( PDF; 6.5 MB on geologie.ac.at).
  • Geological observations in the Gießhübler Mulde near Mödling. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Anzeiger der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse. 84, Vienna 1948, pp. 59-66.
  • The tertiary border from Stainz to Wildbach in western Styria. In: Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1945. Vienna 1945, pp. 105–116.
  • On the tectonics of the Stainzer and Gamser slab gneiss in the Koralpe (Styria). In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute. 90th year, Vienna 1945, pp. 151–180 ( PDF; 1.4 MB on geologie.ac.at).
  • The geology of the catchment area of ​​the Laßnitz ( West Styria ). In: Communications from the Alpine Geological Association. Volume 34, year 1941, Vienna 1942, pp. 1–37 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

Awards

literature

The obituaries contain multi-page lists of publications.

  • Susanna Scharbert: Obituary Peter Beck-Mannagetta. In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute. Volume 142, Issue 1, Vienna 2000, ISSN  0016-7800 , pp. 5–10 ( PDF; 78 kB on geologie.ac.at).
  • Andreas Ertl: Obituary for Peter Beck-Managetta. In: Communications from the Austrian Geological Society. No. 90/1997, Vienna 1999, ISSN  0251-7493 , pp. 207-212 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

Web links

Commons : Coat of arms of the Mannagetta von Lerchenau family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Coat of arms and elevations of the family.
  2. ↑ a b Heinz Meixner : New mineral finds in the Austrian Eastern Alps. XXI. ( Investigation of deposits by the Austrian Alpine Mining Society). In: Carinthia II. Volume 156, 76th year, Klagenfurt 1966, ISSN  0374-6771 , p. 98 ( PDF (1.1 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
  3. ↑ Peter Beck-Mannagetta: The resolution of the mechanics of the Wolfsberger series, Koralpe, Carinthia. In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute. Volume 94, years 1949/51, pp. 127–159 ( PDF; 2.3 MB on geologie.ac.at; two maps after page 157; the diopside aplit is marked as “Ad” on panel XVII on the far right).
  4. ↑ Ertl, Obituary , page 208.
  5. ↑ Gerhard Niedermayer, Richard Göd: The spodumene occurrence on the wine level and its minerals. In: Carinthia II. Volume 182, 102nd year, Klagenfurt 1992, pp. 21–35 ( PDF (2.9 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
personal data
SURNAME Beck-Mannagetta, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beck from Mannagetta, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1998
Place of death to bathe