Franz Kossmat
Franz Kossmat ( born August 22, 1871 in Vienna, † December 1, 1938 in Leipzig ) was an Austro- German geologist, mineralogist and geophysicists.
Life
Franz Kossmat was a professor of mineralogy and geology at the Technical University of Graz. From 1913 to 1934 he was director of the Geological Survey of Saxony and director of the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Leipzig. In 1920 he published the first gravity map of Central Europe. In geology of Central and Western Europe Kossmats name still plays an important role, since the division of the Variscan mountain range goes back to him. In addition Kossmat belonged, among others, Karl Erich Andrée, Gustav Angenheister, Immanuel Friedlander, Beno Gutenberg, Gerhard Krumbach, Charles Mack, Ludger Mintrop, Peter Polis, August Heinrich Sieberg and Emil Wiechert of the founding members, founded in Leipzig on September 19, 1922 German Seismological society of the present German Geophysical Society. In November 1933, he was one of the signatories of the commitment of the professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state.
1955 Kossmatplatz in Vienna-Favoriten was named after him.