Raimund von Klebelsberg

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Raimund von Klebelsberg (born December 14, 1886 in Brixen , † June 6, 1967 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian geologist and high mountain researcher.

Life and research

Raimund Wilhelm Werner von Klebelsberg zu Thumburg came from the old noble family Klebelsberg and was born in Brixen, in what is now South Tyrol . He studied geology at the universities of Munich and Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1910 with a paleontological dissertation .

In 1913, Klebelsberg took part as a geologist in the first Pamir expedition of the German and Austrian Alpine Association (DuÖAV) in West Turkestan , which drew his attention to high mountain research. Klebelsberg has always remained loyal to the Alpine Club. From 1934 to 1938 he was the first chairman of the DuÖAV. In this role he advocated the Anschluss of Austria and justified the exclusion of Jewish mountaineers. Between 1918 and 1964 he headed the AV glacier measuring service .

During the First World War , Klebelsberg did active military service. In 1915 he obtained his habilitation while on leave from the front in Innsbruck . 1919 began his service at the University of Innsbruck . In 1921 he was appointed associate professor and succeeded Josef Blaas as head of the Institute for Geology and Paleontology, and in 1925 he was appointed professor . Klebelsberg was rector of the University of Innsbruck in the academic year 1933/34 and during the Nazi era from 1942 until the end of World War II . In 1938 he applied for membership in the NSDAP , referring to his support for young National Socialist scientists in Austria . In 1943, on the day Christoph Probst was arrested, he ordered him to be banned from studying. After the war, he was removed from office and was not reappointed as a full professor until 1949 with full rehabilitation. He retired in 1958.

The main areas of his scientific activity were the regional geology of Tyrol , the geology of the Alps and especially the glacial geology. He wrote over 600 publications, founded two specialist journals - in 1923 the book series "Schlern-Schriften", 1950 the new "Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde und Glacialgeologie" - and published them on his own until the end of his life.

In 1949 the Tyrolean State Museum dedicated a commemorative publication to Ferdinandeum Klebelsberg. In the Antarctic Graham Land , the Klebelsberg Glacier bears his name. In addition, the secondary school in Bozen was named after him in 1981 . In 1986, the historian Leopold Steurer pointed out the National Socialist past of the school that gave it its name. After bitter debates, the school parted with the name "Raimund von Klebelsberg" in 2000.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the geology of West Turkestan , 1922
  • The upper limit of permanent settlement in South Tyrol (Schlern-Schriften 1), Innsbruck 1923
  • Geological guide through the South Tyrolean Dolomites , 1928
  • The Bozner Land (Alpine Landscapes 3), Vienna 1930
  • Geology of Tyrol , 1935
  • Handbook of Glacier Science and Glacial Geology , 1948/49
  • Through Tyrol to the south (Schlern-Schriften 225), 2nd edition, Innsbruck 1971. ISBN 3-7030-0019-8

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christina Linger: The public account of the South Tyrolean writer Josef Wenter - A study on the subject of "coming to terms with the past" . Dissertation. Free University of Bozen, 2007, p. 89 (also as BoD , ISBN 978-3-640-54507-0 ).
  2. ^ A b Gerald Steinacher , Günther Pallaver : Leopold Steurer: Historians between research and interference . In: Christoph von Hartungen , Hans Heiss , Günther Pallaver, Carlo Romeo , Martha Verdorfer (eds.), Democracy and Remembrance. South Tyrol - Italy - Austria. Festschrift for Leopold Steurer on his 60th birthday , StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Wien / Bozen 2006, ISBN 978-3-7065-4252-4 , pp. 51–91, here pp. 72–75.
  3. ^ Contributions to regional studies of Tyrol: Festschrift in honor of Prof. Dr. R. v. Klebelsberg's (publications by the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum 26/29, 1946/49). Innsbruck: Ferdinandeum 1949
personal data
SURNAME Klebelsberg, Raimund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klebelsberg zu Thumburg, Raimund Wilhelm Werner von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geologist and high mountain researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Brixen
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1967
Place of death innsbruck