Reinhard Schmidt (mining expert)

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Reinhard Schmidt (2012)

Reinhard Schmidt (born November 11, 1946 in Oberhausen ) is a German mining engineer and honorary professor at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg . From 1991 to 2010 he was President of the Saxon Mining Authority and from 2010 to 2011 Chief Mining Officer.

biography

The son of a family of miners and smelters obtained his university entrance qualification at the grammar school in Hattingen . After completing his studies between 1969 and 1975 in the mining science course at Clausthal University of Technology , where he joined the Corps Borussia Clausthal community, Schmidt worked as a steiger until 1976 . This was followed by a traineeship at various North Rhine-Westphalian mining authorities. In 1978 Schmidt passed the 2nd state examination and worked as a department head at various stations in the Lower Saxony mining authorities. In this role he moved to the Lower Saxony Ministry for Federal Affairs in 1984. From 1987 Schmidt worked as a consultant in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and was a member of various committees of the EC and OECD.

From 1991 the mountain assessor Schmidt helped to set up the mountain administrations in the former GDR. In May 1991 Schmidt was appointed head of the mining department in the Saxon State Ministry of Economics and Labor and headed the working group for the re-establishment of the Saxon Mining Authority, which was dissolved in 1946 and of which he had been President since December 1991.

Schmidt has been teaching mining law at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg since the winter semester 1996/97 . On February 23, 2001 he was appointed honorary professor for mining safety and mining law licensing procedures at the Faculty of Geosciences, Geotechnics and Mining. Since 2006 he has been involved in setting up mountain authorities in Vietnam , followed by similar missions in Mongolia, Mozambique and Afghanistan. In May 2001 Schmidt was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit of the Mine Rescue Service of the Czech Republic.

Since his appointment to the board of trustees of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in 1994, Schmidt was its chairman, in February 2010 he was appointed to the newly formed university council and elected its chairman, which he still holds today. He was the chairman of the Georg Agricola Society and the Wismut mining tradition, as well as being a board member in associations and organizations and author of numerous specialist publications and lectures. He is a member of the Rotary Club 1990 Freiberg and a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Freiberg . As a member of the CDU from 2000 to 2004, Schmidt was also a member of the Saxony State Executive Committee of the CDU eV Economic Council.

The TU Bergakademie Freiberg recognized Schmidt's merits for the cooperation between the mining authority and the university with the award of honorary citizenship on the occasion of a ceremony on his 60th birthday in November 2006. On December 19, 2010, Minister of Economic Affairs Morlok appointed him chief miner. At the end of November 2011, Schmidt was given age-related retirement and Bernhard Cramer was appointed as his successor .

For his responsible and courageous advocacy of mining, Schmidt became an honorary member of the German Markscheiderverein, the Association of Mining, Geology and Environment (VBGU) and the Freiberg Geo Competence Center. In connection with the award of the Georg Agricola Memorial Coin, the highest honor in German mining, he became an honorary member of the Society of Metallurgists and Miners eV in 2011

Schmidt was married twice and has five children. The passionate collector of mining utensils owns one of the largest collections of mining lights in Germany. As a music lover, he rediscovered in St. Petersburg in 2009 the manuscript of Weber's opera “The Forest Girl”, which had been premiered in Freiberg in 1800. On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, the work was performed again by the Freiberg Theater for the first time in 215 years. He lives in Freiberg in partnership with the journalist, psychotherapist and author Astrid von Friesen .

On March 19, 2010 Schmidt was appointed an ambassador for the Erzgebirge by the District Administrator of the Erzgebirge District , Frank Vogel . Schmidt was honored with the Federal Order of Merit on December 7, 2017 by Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich . On June 28, 2019 he was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Freiberg.

Awards

  • 2016: Honorary doctorate, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
  • 2017: Federal Order of Merit, 1st class
  • 2019: Honorary citizen of the city of Freiberg

Publications (selection)

  • Bergakademie Freiberg - history and tradition. In: Bergstudenten. History and customs at the mining colleges in Schemnitz, Clausthal, Freiberg and Leoben. (= Small publications of the GDS. Volume 16).
  • Four hundred and fifty years of the Saxon Mining Authority Freiberg. , Festschrift. Freiberg 1993.
  • Resources and the environment from the perspective of the mining administration. In: Mining. 5/2003, p. 197 ff.
  • Mining in Germany - still an important industry. In: Mining. 3/2004, p. 115 ff.
  • The Saxon mining authorities. In: World of mining. 58/2006, No. 1, p. 51 ff.
  • For the fourth mountain cry in Saxony. In: Glückauf. 144/2008, No. 10, p. 591 ff.
  • The development of mining law in Saxony, 14th International Mining History Workshop 2011. Annaberg-Buchholz 2011.
  • Hans Carl von Carlowitz. In: Mining. 6/2012, p. 261 ff.
  • Carl Maria von Weber's opera “The Forest Girl”. In: Mining. 3/2016, p. 125 ff.

Books

  • Karlsch and Schröter (eds.) Radiant past. St. Katharinen 1996. (Prehistory, beginning and early period of uranium ore mining in the Ore Mountains)
  • TU BAF / North University of Baia Mare (Ed.): Mining and the Envionronment Baia Mare 2007 .
  • D. Stoll et al. (Ed.): The lignite opencast mine. Berlin / Heidelberg 2009, p. 249 ff. (Legal basis and approval procedure as part of mining activity)
  • Saxon Carlowitz Society (ed.): The invention of sustainability. Munich 2013, p. 233 ff. (Appreciation of my predecessor Hans Carl von Carlowirtz, chief miner of Saxony)
  • Carsten Drebenstedt (Ed.): Brown coal renovation. Berlin / Heidelberg 2014, p. 73 ff. (Legal, financial and organizational principles)
  • Theodor Körner as a Freiberg mountain student. TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2014.
  • J. Zaun (Ed.): Bergakademische Schätze. Freiberg 2015, p. 198 ff. (Collections of the Saxon Mining Office)
  • D. Stoyan (Ed.): Mining Academic Stories. Freiberg 2015: The Freiberg Scholarship Fund, p. 13 ff .; Theodor Körner as a mountain student and the Freiberg student connections, p. 121 ff.
  • D. Slaby (Ed.): Raw materials management in the process of transformation. (= Freiberg research books. D205). Mining law and securing raw materials.

Individual evidence

  1. Saxony has a chief miner again. sächsische.de, December 19, 2010, accessed on November 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Awarded the Federal Order of Merit for outstanding commitment
  3. Freiberg's new honorary citizen
  4. Honorary doctorate for former Freiberg chief miner. In: tu-freiberg.de. Retrieved December 23, 2016 .
  5. Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class awarded . In: Ring Deutscher Bergingenieure eV (Ed.): Mining . Magazine for raw material extraction, energy, environment. 69th year, no. 3 . RDB Service GmbH, 2018, ISSN  0342-5681 , p. 138 .

Web links

  • Prof. Reinhard Schmidt. Mining expert as President in the Oberbergamt. In: Ambassador of the Ore Mountains. wirtschaft-im-erzgebirge.de, accessed on September 29, 2019 (short biography).