Werner Heissel

Werner Heissel (also Heissel ; born September 11, 1908 in Weiz , Styria , † January 19, 1994 ) was an Austrian geologist and professor at the University of Innsbruck .

After graduating from high school in Kufstein in 1926 , he first studied geography and biology and then geology at the University of Innsbruck with his doctorate in 1931 under Raimund von Klebelsberg (Quaternary geology of the Inn Valley). As an assistant to Klebelsberg, he mapped in the Dolomites in South Tyrol (sheet Villnöß-Gröden-Schlern- Rosengarten ). In 1934 he became an external member of the Geological Reichsanstalt and mapped in the Vilser Alps and in the Stone Sea . He became an expert for the Northern Limestone Alps. In 1938 he became a full member of the Federal Geological Institute and mapped the Grauwackenzone . During the Second World War he was in the Todt Organization in Norway and Northern Russia and later in Austria as part of the underground relocation of industrial companies. After being a prisoner of war from 1944 to 1946, he worked as an applied geologist (prospecting industrial minerals, assessments for power plant construction) and from 1948 back at the Federal Geological Institute. In 1958 he became a full professor for geology and paleontology in Innsbruck.

He was particularly concerned with the Northern Limestone Alps , the Salzburg Grauwackenzone, the Dolomites and the lower Inn Valley.

Fonts

• South Tyrolean Dolomites. Geological Guide 71, Borntraeger 1982
• On the tectonics of the Northern Limestone Alps. In: Mitt. Geol. Ges. Vienna. Volume 50, 1958, pp. 95-132
• The Alps. In: Geology in brief. Shepherd 1963

literature

• Obituary by Helfried Mostler in: Mitt. Österr. Geolog. Ges., 87, 1994, pp. 135-138