You bid a handwritten, signed postcard of the Austrian geologist William Hammer (1875-1942).

DatedVienna, June 6th February 1933.

addressed to the pastor and honorary citizen Franz Etschmann in Strengen am Arlberg.

Transcription: "Your Reverend! The 1:500,000 geological overview map will most likely be fully printed by the end of July this year. We will send you the printed notice of the card's release. Yours sincerely, Director Dr. W Hammer.”

With sender address "Director. dr phil. - Councilor; Vienna, XIII. Waidhausenstr. 16." -- This address is also mentioned in the yearbook of the Geological Survey, vol. 83 (1933), in which he is named as director: “Director: Hammel Wilhelm, Phil. Dr., Hofrat, member of the commission for holding the 1st state examination at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, owner of the Fr. von Wieser Medal of the Tyrolean State Museum, XIII., Waidhausenstr. 16."

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Format:8.9 x 14.1 cm.

Stationary on quite thin paper.

Condition:Map browned and stained, with corner creases. Please also note the pictures!

Internal Note: FM 200913

About Wilhelm Hammer (source: wikipedia):

Wilhelm Hammer (* 13. November 1875 in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg; † 26 December 1942 in Innsbruck, Tyrol) was an Austrian geologist.

Life: Wilhelm Hammer studied at the University of Innsbruck, passed the teaching examination in 1899 and received his doctorate (Dr. phil. In 1901 he joined the kk Geological Reichsanstalt, later the Geological Federal Institute, of which he was director from 1932 to 1935.

His central work was the geological exploration and re-recording of the Tyrolean Central Alps. The upper Ennstal and the Kitzbühel Alps were also his research goals.

In 1920 and 1921 he was also chairman of the Geological Society.

He was an excellent mountaineer. So he was the first to climb the Dremelspitze with Ampferer.

Factories:

geologist Cards:

Southern part of the Karwendel, together with Otto Ampferer, 1898

Cles, 1903

Bormio tonal, 1908

Glurns-Ortler, 1912

Nauders, 1923

Landeck, 1924

Ötztal, 1929

Sölden-St. Leonard, 1932

Admont-Hieflau, 1933

Kitzbühel-Zell am See, 1935

Books:

Geological guide through the West Tyrolean Central Alps, 1922