Rudolf Heinz (geologist)

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Rudolf Heinz (born December 26, 1900 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † December 16, 1960 in Leipzig ) was a German geologist .

Heinz attended the Münstermaifeld (Eifel) teachers' seminar from 1915 to 1921 . Then he studied from 1921 to 1926 Geology and Paleontology in Hamburg to the promotion of Dr. rer. nat. From 1926 to 1936 he worked as a research assistant at the Geological Institute of the University of Hamburg. After his habilitation, he taught from 1929 as a private lecturer and from 1936 as a non-official adjunct professor of geology at the University of Hamburg . In 1933 he exposed himself as an informer against his colleagues Karl Gripp and Roland Brinkmann . In 1937, Heinz received a chair at the University of Leipzig as the successor to Franz Kossmat and headed the Geological-Paleontological Institute there. From 1941 to 1944 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig. In 1945 Heinz was dismissed for political reasons and from then on lived as a private scholar in Leipzig.

Heinz had been a member of the NSDAP since 1932 . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . From 1943 to 1945 he was the Gaudozentenbundführer of Saxony.

literature

  • Jürgen Ehlers : The Geological Institute of the Hamburg University in the thirties , in: Eckart Krause, Ludwig Huber, Holger Fischer (eds.): Everyday university life in the "Third Reich". The Hamburg University 1933-1945 . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin and Hamburg 1991, Vol. III, p. 1234 ff.
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 73.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Ehlers, The Geological Institute of the Hamburg University in the 1930s, in: Eckart Krause u. a. (Ed.): Everyday university life in the "Third Reich". The Hamburg University 1933-1945 . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin and Hamburg 1991, Vol. III, p. 1235 f.
personal data
SURNAME Heinz, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1960
Place of death Leipzig