Hans Jürgen Rösler

Hans Jürgen Rösler (14 May 1920 – 12 January 2009) was a German mineralogy professor. He was the author of a wide range of publications and core teaching texts, including "Geochemische Tabellen" ("Geochemical Tables") and "The Mineralogy Textbook" ("Lehrbuch der Mineralogie").

Biography Rösler was born in Braschen, a small village in Eastern Brandenburg (since 1945 part of Poland). His father was a teacher. He attended school in Crossen and then in Frankfurt (Oder), where in 1938 he passed his school final examinations (Abitur). During 1939 he undertook a mining internship in Silesia. However, in 1939 war had returned. He was conscripted and served as a soldier in France and the Soviet Union between 1940 and 1944. This was followed by a three-year period, between 1944 and 1947, as a prisoner of war, which in Rösler's case involved mining work in Morocco. On 11 October 1996 he won the Kurt Schwabe Prize.