Reinhart Heppner

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Reinhart Heppner at the Lossen monument in Wernigerode , 2018

Reinhart Heppner (born November 5, 1931 in Meißen ; † May 30, 2020 in Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. ) Was a German geologist and local researcher .

Life

After the Second World War, Reinhart Heppner began geological training at the Bergakademie Freiberg , which he completed with the academic degree of a qualified geologist. Reinhart Heppner also completed a distance learning course in Leipzig with a qualification as a teacher. He got a job as a teacher in the company vocational school " Martin Hoop " in Johanngeorgenstadt - Neuoberhaus and then worked as a research assistant at the Central Office for Socialist Education of the Ministry of Geology in the GDR.

In addition to his work as a geologist and head of the company sports group of the German Association for Hiking, Mountaineering and Orienteering (DWBO) in the VEB Modesta Johanngeorgenstadt, he was interested in the home and mining history of the Saxon - Bohemian Ore Mountains from an early stage . Between 1993 and 2013 he published several non-fiction books on the subject. In his function as the chief guidebook of the Erzgebirgsverein and founding member of the Johanngeorgenstadt miners' association , he and Günther Adler suggested the construction of the cross-border Anton-Günther-Weg . Heppner was considered to be one of the best experts on the western Ore Mountains on both sides of the border. In his writings, he also devoted himself to the Stone Forest in Franconia and the Imperial Forest in Bohemia , which he had explored extensively as an active hiker.

Heppner lived in Rittersgrün and then in Raschau for the past few years . He died on May 30, 2020 in the Erlabrunn district of Breitenbrunn .

Works

  • Via a Silurian thrust from the municipal gravel pit Malchin (Mecklenburg). In: Geologie, Vol. 11 (1962), 4, pp. 495-497.
  • Final report of the mapping borehole Darßer Ort 1/60, Mbl. Prerow No. 1541. In: Central Geological Institute, Scientific-Technical Information Service , Vol. 4 (1963), 1, p. 4.
  • (with Manfred Petzka): Geology. Teaching material for training deep drilling skilled workers. Berlin 1964. DNB 367498200
  • Methodical help Documentation of geological outcrops: Geology specialist. Johanngeorgenstadt 1983.
  • (with Jörg Brückner , Kurt Burkhardt, Roland Stutzky): The Schwarzwassertal from the Fichtelberg to the Zwickauer Mulde in historical views. Horb am Neckar 1993 (2nd revised edition 1995, 3rd edition 1997). ISBN 978-3-89264-770-6
  • (with Jörg Brückner, Helmut Schmidt): Saxon-Bohemian panoramic mountains of the western Ore Mountains in words and pictures with tourist information. Horb am Neckar 2000 (2nd revised edition 2001). ISBN 978-3-89570-593-9
  • (with Manfred Richter): Historical educational trail. Historical tour through the municipality of Rittersgrün. Rittersgrün 2002.
  • Autumn excursion to the Kaiserwald. In: Wir am Steinwald, annual series of the Steinwaldia Pullenreuth Society 13 (2006), pp. 121–127.
  • The observation tower on the Schönfelder Berg. In: Wir am Steinwald, annual publication series of the Steinwaldia Pullenreuth Society 13 (2006), pp. 127–130
  • (with Jörg Brückner): Selected panoramic mountains of the Saxon-Bohemian Ore Mountains. Horb am Neckar 2007. ISBN 978-3-86595-206-6
  • Through the Schwarzwassertal to the Fichtelberg in earlier days for visitors and locals. Horb am Neckar 2009. ISBN 978-3-86595-347-6
  • (with Hans-Jürgen Knabe) From the Raschau valley basin up to the settlements on the border with Saxony and Bohemia. Horb am Neckar 2013. ISBN 978-3-86595-515-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beate Kindt-Matuschek: He knew the region like no other: Geologist and book author Reinhart Heppner is dead , in: Freie Presse, Schwarzenberger Zeitung of June 5, 2020, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Heppner, Reinhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2020
Place of death Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb.