Dr. Carl Strutinski 1946 - 2025 -
Rememrance and thoughts of his friends
Frank Winkelmann
Dear Carl,
We suspected it, but we wanted to keep hoping! As is so often the case, it is our fragile body that signals to our spirit that its time on earth is limited. We actually see it every fall, when we can observe how the trees shed their clothes and nature prepares for the great sleep. Now you are also taken from us. What remains are the memories of you and your work!
You have been the most active and productive spirit in our circle of friends, the “Erdexen”, for many years. This little abbreviation does not refer to a new unknown reptilian species, but is a contraction of the word “Erdexpansionisten” for quick tongues.
I can still feel the last handshake from you when we met in your apartment in Saarbrücken a few weeks ago. The visit was already marked by the dissolution, the passing on of your estate. Anticipating the little time you had left, you wanted to put things in order. You had the foresight to pass on important books to professional hands, you gave us your life's work in digitally coagulated form on a small stick, which will now travel like a message in a bottle in the ocean of thoughts and theories and will hopefully one day be discovered and made fruitful by a hand that is capable of appreciating it.
Needless to say, we will miss you! For so many years you were our mentor in the “theory of the growing earth”. Your struggle for knowledge had Promethean traits—there's no other way to describe it! Even though I know that you would never call it that because of your deep modesty and reserve. I can see you smiling and waving it off.
I always regretted that so many miles separated us. The core group of our circle of friends was and is based in Hamburg, while you were in Saarbrücken. Even though distances have shrunk in the digital age, it's still different when you meet in person. Analog, so to speak.
The conversations we had during these encounters, and especially the lectures in which you shared your thoughts with us, always provided us with profound insights.
I still remember very well your lecture at Heiner and Manuela's salon, in which you were able to explain your views and insights on the formation of mountains with different phases of Earth's expansion in an astonishingly clear way. I don't know if it was simply your way of speaking or if there was a planned rhetorical calculation behind it. After your long introductory remarks, which were delivered calmly and accompanied by many graphics and diagrams, you only reached your sensational climax at the end, like a brilliant composer, via a crescendo. You took us laymen by the hand, so to speak, and led us step by step, based on facts, into the realm of your ideas and interpretations.
You were one of the last active “expansionists” in the German-speaking world. You maintained a wide variety of relationships with experts all over the world. But at the same time, you also suffered from the fact that this geological theory had disappeared from the scene and that the “mainstream” of scientists had, so to speak, sworn allegiance to the theory of plate tectonics. Your hopes lay with future generations of geoscientists, among whom there should be some who will look at the phenomena with a fresh, unbiased eye.
Even though you have now passed away into the invisible world in the autumn of your life, the great teacher Nature shows us that after winter there is always spring! Dear Carl, our circle of friends will preserve your legacy. We promise you that! Perhaps your thoughts and writings are the seeds of something new!
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Beate Trost
Remembering Carl,
Since November 18, 2024, I regularly exchanged ideas with Carl about our shared interest in Earth expansion. Now he is no longer with us, and this idea still seems unreal to me, after I was so happy to have finally found someone who understood the thoughts in my head and shared the idea of expansion.
Carl was an extremely impressive geologist who, during our first personal meeting on February 7, 2025, in Saarbrücken and our reunion the following day, left so many new ideas with his visitors Manuela, Frank, and me that we can speak of nothing less than his intellectual legacy.
Carl knew all the important representatives of expansion theory personally through decades of professional exchange, including at conferences. His diverse and accomplished writings, which he composed in English, German, and Romanian, testify to his love of geology and his search for the truth about the origin of the Earth.
He was not afraid to challenge and question supposedly fixed and set-in-stone views, even though he no longer needed to muster the strength to do so in the end. Nevertheless, he did so and also left me this treasure trove of books, maps, files, and even original correspondence, which still amazes me today. Carl will therefore always be a role model for me. But he has become something even more important: a friend.
Good luck, dear Carl!
Your Beate
Rememrance and thoughts of his friends
Frank Winkelmann
Dear Carl,
We suspected it, but we wanted to keep hoping! As is so often the case, it is our fragile body that signals to our spirit that its time on earth is limited. We actually see it every fall, when we can observe how the trees shed their clothes and nature prepares for the great sleep. Now you are also taken from us. What remains are the memories of you and your work!
You have been the most active and productive spirit in our circle of friends, the “Erdexen”, for many years. This little abbreviation does not refer to a new unknown reptilian species, but is a contraction of the word “Erdexpansionisten” for quick tongues.
I can still feel the last handshake from you when we met in your apartment in Saarbrücken a few weeks ago. The visit was already marked by the dissolution, the passing on of your estate. Anticipating the little time you had left, you wanted to put things in order. You had the foresight to pass on important books to professional hands, you gave us your life's work in digitally coagulated form on a small stick, which will now travel like a message in a bottle in the ocean of thoughts and theories and will hopefully one day be discovered and made fruitful by a hand that is capable of appreciating it.
Needless to say, we will miss you! For so many years you were our mentor in the “theory of the growing earth”. Your struggle for knowledge had Promethean traits—there's no other way to describe it! Even though I know that you would never call it that because of your deep modesty and reserve. I can see you smiling and waving it off.
I always regretted that so many miles separated us. The core group of our circle of friends was and is based in Hamburg, while you were in Saarbrücken. Even though distances have shrunk in the digital age, it's still different when you meet in person. Analog, so to speak.
The conversations we had during these encounters, and especially the lectures in which you shared your thoughts with us, always provided us with profound insights.
I still remember very well your lecture at Heiner and Manuela's salon, in which you were able to explain your views and insights on the formation of mountains with different phases of Earth's expansion in an astonishingly clear way. I don't know if it was simply your way of speaking or if there was a planned rhetorical calculation behind it. After your long introductory remarks, which were delivered calmly and accompanied by many graphics and diagrams, you only reached your sensational climax at the end, like a brilliant composer, via a crescendo. You took us laymen by the hand, so to speak, and led us step by step, based on facts, into the realm of your ideas and interpretations.
You were one of the last active “expansionists” in the German-speaking world. You maintained a wide variety of relationships with experts all over the world. But at the same time, you also suffered from the fact that this geological theory had disappeared from the scene and that the “mainstream” of scientists had, so to speak, sworn allegiance to the theory of plate tectonics. Your hopes lay with future generations of geoscientists, among whom there should be some who will look at the phenomena with a fresh, unbiased eye.
Even though you have now passed away into the invisible world in the autumn of your life, the great teacher Nature shows us that after winter there is always spring! Dear Carl, our circle of friends will preserve your legacy. We promise you that! Perhaps your thoughts and writings are the seeds of something new!
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Beate Trost
Remembering Carl,
Since November 18, 2024, I regularly exchanged ideas with Carl about our shared interest in Earth expansion. Now he is no longer with us, and this idea still seems unreal to me, after I was so happy to have finally found someone who understood the thoughts in my head and shared the idea of expansion.
Carl was an extremely impressive geologist who, during our first personal meeting on February 7, 2025, in Saarbrücken and our reunion the following day, left so many new ideas with his visitors Manuela, Frank, and me that we can speak of nothing less than his intellectual legacy.
Carl knew all the important representatives of expansion theory personally through decades of professional exchange, including at conferences. His diverse and accomplished writings, which he composed in English, German, and Romanian, testify to his love of geology and his search for the truth about the origin of the Earth.
He was not afraid to challenge and question supposedly fixed and set-in-stone views, even though he no longer needed to muster the strength to do so in the end. Nevertheless, he did so and also left me this treasure trove of books, maps, files, and even original correspondence, which still amazes me today. Carl will therefore always be a role model for me. But he has become something even more important: a friend.
Good luck, dear Carl!
Your Beate
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