A Tribute to Professor Emeritus Horst Wagner: Researcher, Administrator, Mentor and AcademicZu Ehren von Professor Emeritus Horst Wagner – Forscher, Administrator, Mentor und Wissenschaftler

While Horst Wagner was born and educated in Austria and has also spent the last 20 years working at his Alma Mater, he is also remembered for the 25 remarkable years he spent in South Africa. This paper attempts to trace his meteoric rise from Junior Researcher in 1969 to his appointment in 1986 as the Director General of the Chamber of Mines Research Organisation and concurrently Research Advisor to the Chamber of Mines of South Africa. In addition, during the period 1988 until his return to Austria in 1993, Professor Wagner was the Senior General Manager (Operations) of the Chamber of Mines and played a pivotal role in reshaping the Chamber and its subsidiary companies.