Rudolf Hohl (geologist)

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Hermann Robert Rudolf Hohl (born August 17, 1906 in Leipzig , † June 26, 1992 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German geologist .

Life

The son of the merchant Hugo Hohl and his wife Marie, born Freytag, received after four years of visiting what was then III. Higher community school in Leipzig (1913-1917) his higher education from 1917 on the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig-Connewitz, which he left in 1926 with the school leaving certificate. From 1926 to 1930 he studied natural sciences (geology-paleontology, mineralogy-petrography, geography and chemistry) at the University of Leipzig . In 1932 he did his doctorate in Leipzig under Franz Kossmat on the subject: The cliff area of ​​Reuth-Gefell in the northwestern Vogtland . At Kossmat he worked as an assistant until 1935, after which he entered higher education in Leipzig. When the war began, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and worked as a Wehrmacht geologist in Norway. In 1940 the marriage with Margot-Gerti Hönemann was concluded, from which a son (1944) and a daughter (1950) emerged. From 1948 he was entrusted by the "Geological State Institute in the Soviet Occupation Zone" with applied geological work (exploration of lignite and stone-and-earth deposits and hydrogeological reports), which was published in 1951 in the "State Geological Commission, Freiberg / Saxony branch, Arbeitsstelle Leipzig ”was renamed. As a result of his commitment, he was appointed to succeed the Saxon senior geologist Kurt Pietsch as chief geologist of the Freiberg / Saxony Geological Service in 1958 , which he headed until 1960. As early as 1951, Rudolf Hohl received a teaching position for applied geology at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) , which he held until 1959. In addition, the Freiberg Bergakademie gave him a teaching position in hydrogeology from 1959-1962. Due to his outstanding achievements, he was appointed professor on October 7, 1959. On January 1, 1960, the MLU appointed him full professor at the Geological-Paleontological Institute in Halle, in 1963 he became professor and chair, from 1968 he headed the chair of geology, from 1969 the geology department in the geography section. With effect from September 1, 1969, he was appointed full professor of geology. He worked for three years as vice dean or dean (1963–1966) of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and as co-director of the Geological-Paleontological Institute (1962–1967). As part of the III. University reform he succeeded in firmly anchoring geology in the geography section founded in 1969 and until his retirement in 1971 he was head of the geology science department at MLU. Even after his departure, he led the geological colloquium, supervised a large number of dissertations and habilitation theses and has emerged through numerous other publications, including a. as editor and co-author of the "Development History of the Earth" (with several editions between 1955 and 1981) and as long-time editor of the "Halleschen Jahrbuch für Mitteldeutsche Erdgeschichte" and the resulting "Halleschen Jahrbuch für Geoswissenschaften".

In 1961 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Section for Practical Geology and Applied Geophysics, from 1962 he is an honorary member of the Hungarian Hydrological Society; In 1966 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1991 he became an honorary member of the Thuringian Geological Association .

Fonts

  • Editor: The history of the development of the earth , Leipzig, Brockhaus, 7th edition 1989 (including von Hohl and others the article Geotectonic Hypotheses)
  • Co-author: The earth. Spheres, zones, regions, territories (editor Johannes F. Gellert) Urania-Verlag, Leipzig-Jena-Berlin 1982
  • Editor and co-author: Our Earth. A modern geology. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig-Jena-Berlin. 1st edition 1974
  • Editors: Hohl, R., Matthes, HW: Hallesches Jahrbuch für Mitteldeutsche Erdgeschichte, 8th volume, BG Teubner, Leipzig 1967
  • H. Karrenberg (Ed. And Author), R. Hohl, A. Pahl, H.-J. Schneider, M. Wallner: Hydrogeology of non-karstifiable solid rock . Springer Verlag, Vienna, New York 1980
  • Hohl, Rudolf: Wandering continents. Akzent series Volume 75. Urania-Verlag Leipzig - Jena - Berlin 1985

literature

  • Kurt Dette: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Hohl on his 65th birthday. In: Hercynia, NF 8, Leipzig 1971, pp. 235-238
  • Max Schwab: Prof. em. Dr. Rudolf Hohl on his 70th birthday. In: Hercynia, NF 13, Leipzig 1976, pp. 293-294

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Hauptmann: Alphabetical index of former Carolaner , in: Twenty-five anniversary of the Queen Carola high school in Leipzig 1927 , Leipzig 1927, p. 26
  2. ^ Ansgar Müller: In memory of Rudolf Hohl. Mauritiana (Altenburg) 14, 161-164 (1993)
  3. ^ Honorary members of the TGV
personal data
SURNAME Hohl, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1992
Place of death Halle (Saale)