Kurt Lemcke

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Kurt Lemcke (born April 28, 1914 in Wittenburg ; † October 18, 2003 ) was a German geologist.

The grave of Kurt Lemcke and his wife Hildegard, Obermenzing cemetery, Munich.

Lemcke studied geology from 1932 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , where he received his doctorate in 1937 ("Geology and tectonics of the Diedrichshäger mountains near Arendsee-Brunshaupten in Mecklenburg"). He then worked as a research assistant at the Mecklenburg State Geological Institute in Rostock, where he became an assistant after it was converted into an institute at the University of Rostock and then worked as a district geologist at the Reich Office for Soil Research in Berlin.

After the Second World War and as a prisoner of war, he worked as a freelance geologist in southern Germany and from 1948 as an oil geologist at the Brigitta Elwerath trade union in Hanover, for which he was looking for oil and natural gas in the Molasse basin of the Alpine foothills. From 1969 he had a teaching position for petroleum geology at the Technical University of Munich , where he became honorary professor in 1974.

From his experience as a petroleum geologist, he became a very good expert on the geology of Bavaria and wrote a book about it.

In 1978 he became an honorary member of the Association of Swiss Petroleum Geologists and Engineers and in 1979 an honorary member of the Upper Rhine Geological Association , of which he had been a member since 1947. Until 1978 he was on the Tertiary and Law sub- commission of the German Stratigraphic Commission.

Since 1978 he has been involved in the European Geotraverse Project, which created a geological cross-section through the European continent from the North Cape to Sicily.

Fonts

  • The Bavarian Alpine Foreland before the Ice Age. Geological history - construction - natural resources (= geology of Bavaria. Vol. 1). Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-510-65135-9 .
  • with Hans Füchtbauer and Wolf von Engelhardt : Geological and sediment petrographic investigations in the western part of the unfolded molasse of the southern German Alpine foothills (= Geological Yearbook. Supplements 11, ISSN  0005-8017 ). Soil Research Office, Hanover 1953.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ European Geotraverse Project (EGT), initiated by Stephan Mueller and Rudolf Trümpy . The international research project ran from 1980 to 1992, led by Peter Giese on the German side
personal data
SURNAME Lemcke, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 2003