Werner Vasicek

Werner Richard Hubert Vasicek (born September 25, 1939 in Langenlois ; † March 25, 2013 in Zwettl ) was an Austrian homeland researcher .

Vasicek studied geology and paleontology at the University of Vienna . Professionally, he was through four decades as a curator in Krahuletz Museum of the City Eggenburg operates. During this time, the museum named after Johann Krahuletz was the first point of contact for specialists and local researchers with special concerns. Werner Vasicek sponsored numerous scientific projects and was significantly involved in some of them. As a permanent employee of the Federal Monuments Office in Vienna, he published Fund reports from Austria in the specialist journal . He is also an employee of the special geological map of the Republic of Austria . His main area of ​​interest concerns the Permian of Zöbing , about which he has published and is working on a comprehensive overview. The Höbarthmuseum in Horn and the Krahuletzmuseum in Eggenburg have significant exhibits from its collections and excavations from this geological period.

Vasicek's importance lies primarily in his folk education museum work that he has carried out for decades, with which he was able to address young people in the long term and in his successful occupation with a scientific topic that is otherwise little noticed in Austria.

Works (selection)

• Insect remains from the Permian from Zöbing near Krems in Lower Austria , Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna 71, 1967, 13ff. (with Friedrich Bachmayer ).
• 1973 report on recordings in the Permian of Zöbing on the Horn (21) and Krems (38) maps , negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute, Vienna 1974, p. A114f.
• 280 million year old traces of the hard coal forests of Zöbing , catalog series of the Krahuletz Museum 4, Eggenburg 1983.
• Geological map of the Republic of Austria , sheet 38, Vienna 1984.
• Krahuletz Museum , Mannus Library 23, Bonn 1985, p. 39ff.
• The geological-palaeontological collection as the main theme of the Krahuletz Museum , Mannus 51, Bonn 1985.
• The Krahuletz Museum , Eggenburg. History and Culture (Hans Brandstetter), Vienna 1986.
• The Young Paleozoic of Zöbing , excursions in the Young Paleozoic and Mesozoic of Austria, Vienna 1991.
• Family. Ideal and Reality , Catalog of the Lower Austrian State Exhibition NF 316, Horn 1993, p. 503 (No. 9.41).
• Young Paleozoic von Zöbing , series of publications by the Waldviertler Heimatbund 38, Waidhofen / Thaya 1999, p. 63ff. (together with Fritz F. Steininger ).

literature

• Fritz F. Steininger : Werner Richard Hubert Vasicek. September 25, 1939 - March 25, 2013. In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute. Volume 153, Issue 1–4, Vienna, December 2013, ISSN  0016-7800 , pp. 11–14 (with picture and list of publications)