Rolf Vogel (mining engineer)

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Rolf Vogel (born August 27, 1922 in Chemnitz ; † February 8, 2017 in Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. ) Was a German mining engineer and works director .

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Vogel began his career as a miner in the Lugau-Oelsnitz coalfield in 1945 . In 1946 he took a degree at the Bergakademie Freiberg that he graduated in 1951 as a qualified mining engineer. Subsequently, he took on various management positions in the coal mining industry. In 1963 he became works director at the Karl Liebknecht hard coal works .

After 1990 Vogel campaigned for the preservation of the former daytime facilities as a mining museum as well as for the preservation and transmission of mining traditions, especially in the miners' community of the Lugau-Oelsnitz coal mine. Vogel wrote the standard work on the Lugau-Oelsnitzer coal field.

Works

  • Rolf Vogel: The Lugau – Oelsnitzer coal field . Ed .: Förderverein Bergbaumuseum Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. eV Hohenstein – Ernstthal 1992.

literature

  • Bergglöckchen No. 1/2017, magazine of the Saxon State Association of Miners, Huts and Miners' Associations
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining engineer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2017
Place of death Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.