Albert Kurt Beyer

Albert Kurt Beyer , also Kurt Albert Beyer, (born August 15, 1907 in Delitzsch , † January 16, 1956 in Greifswald ) was a German geologist.

Life

Beyer attended school in Torgau and Halle and studied after high school in 1928 at the University of Halle natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Halle with a doctorate in geology in 1933 and the exam for teachers at secondary schools in the same year. In 1933 he became a member of the SA and in 1937 of the NSDAP. From 1934 he was an assistant at the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA) in Berlin, passed the second state geological examination in 1936, became an extraordinary geologist in 1937 and a geologist at the Reich Office for Soil Research in 1940. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a pioneer, became a technical war administrator in 1941 and was a geologist in the staff service on the Eastern Front in 1941/42. From 1942 he was at the mineral oil agency of the military industry replacement department and explored natural gas fields in Estonia and Lower Saxony (area around Hanover). In 1943 he completed his habilitation in Halle, where he became a lecturer in 1944 and, after the war, a scheduled assistant at the Geological Institute in June 1945, but was dismissed that same year. He went to the Geological State Office in Halle (earth building program, brown coal search), but was also a lecturer at the university from 1948 (from 1949 as a regular lecturer). In 1950 he accepted a call to Leipzig and from 1951 to 1956 he was a full professor of geology at the University of Greifswald as the successor to Serge von Bubnoff .

He is known for investigating oil and gas deposits in the Old Paleozoic Northern Europe and the Central European Silurian .

Web links

• Catalog of professors at the University of Halle-Wittenberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Laudation to Lothar Eißmann , a student of Beyer, for the Serge Bubnoff Medal 2003, Z. Deutsche Ges.Geowiss., 156, 2005, p. 243