Rudolf von Zwerger

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Rudolf von Zwerger (born November 8, 1902 in Stuttgart , † April 1945 in Berlin ) was a German geologist ( petroleum geology ) and geophysicist.

Life

Rudolf von Zwerger was the son of a businessman and went to secondary school in Weimar . From 1921 he studied mining at the Bergakademie Freiberg , the TH Berlin and the Bergakademie Clausthal with a diploma as a mining engineer in 1927. During his studies, study trips took him to Romania, Spain and Spanish-Morocco.

From 1928 he worked as a geophysicist for the Ohio Oil Company in Shreveport and went on study trips to the USA. In 1929 he received his doctorate from the TH Aachen on an iron ore deposit in northern Portugal. He then worked as a geophysicist at Wintershall AG , for which he carried out geomagnetic measurements in Eichsfeld and in Thuringia. From 1932 he worked for the German Society for Mineral Oil Research and the Association of German Engineers as well as the magazine Oel und Kohlen . In 1934 he carried out geomagnetic measurements in Mecklenburg and, as a geophysicist at the Prussian State Geological Institute, took part in the geophysical survey of the Reich carried out at that time. There he was an employee of Otto Barsch (1879–1946). After the second state geological examination in 1938, he became a district geologist in 1941. During World War II he worked as a geophysicist in Poland, Russia, Austria, Hungary and the Balkans. In 1944 he completed his habilitation at the TH Berlin.

He died shortly before the end of the war from a shell hit, after he had been drafted into the Volkssturm .

Fonts

  • For the geological interpretation of regional anomalies of gravity and geomagnetism (submission of a gravity map of central northern Germany and comparative consideration of studies) , Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 95, 1943, pp. 67-71
  • At the current status of the geophysical survey of Germany. On Otto Barsch's 60th birthday , Geologische Rundschau, Volume 32, 1/2, 1941, pp. 6–52
  • Tectonics, anomalies of geomagnetism and oil prospect in Central Germany , potash, related salts and petroleum, issue 5–9; Hall, 1934
  • Die Deutschen Erdölfelder , Z. Verband dt. Engineers, Volume 78, 1934, pp. 525-530.
  • Druck-Gas und Druck-Luft in der Erdölgewinnung , Oel und Kohlen, Volume 11, 1935, pp. 317-323, 573-576, 604-608, 749-752, 824-827;
  • Serious disturbances between Aller and Steinhuder Meer-Linie , Oel und Kohl, Volume 14, 1938, pp. 943-953
  • Petroleum geological and technical evaluation options of radioactive borehole investigations , Oil and Coal, Volume 39, 1943, pp. 333-352
  • with H. Reich Taschenbuch der Angewandte Geophysik , Leipzig, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1943 (co-author of the section on gravity measurements)
  • with H.-L. Heck, W. Schott Der Untergrund von Schleswig-Holstein , Treatises of the Reich Office for Soil Research, New Series, Volume 202, 1945, Kiel (printed in 1944, but lost in the war, 98 pages)
  • The deeper subsurface of the western peribaltic. Contribution to the interpretation of the regional disturbance areas of gravity and geomagnetism , treatises of the geological state institute Berlin; NF, volume 210, 1948 (74 pages)
  • Editor with Hans Haalck , Hermann Reich, M. Rössiger Contributions to applied geophysics , Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Leipzig (until 1944)

literature

  • Hans Closs , Obituary in Geologisches Jahrbuch, for 1950, and in Erdöl und Kohlen, Volume 2, No. 4, 1949, p. 171

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Later he reported for the magazine Oel und Kohlen on the status of explorations in the USA: Development and status of geophysical exploration of the southern states of the USA , Petroleum, Volume 27, 1931, pp. 335–342, The newer development of geophysics in the United States, Particularly on the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana , Oil and Coal, Volume 13, 1937, pp. 374-380
  2. ↑ Investigations into the building worthiness of the iron ore deposits on the Cabeço da Mua and the Serra de Reboredo in Portugal (Prov. Tras-os-Montes)
  3. ^ The magnetic survey of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , communications from the Mecklenburg geological state office, Volume 43, 1936, NF 8, pp. 31-40
  4. ↑ The geophysical recording activity in Polish oil-producing areas , oil and coal, Volume 35, 1939, pp. 697–701
  5. ^ Review by Friedrich Breyer in Contributions to Applied Geophysics , Volume 11, 1944, Issue 2, pp. 201ff
personal data
SURNAME Zwerger, Rudolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist (petroleum geology) and geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 1945
Place of death Berlin