Albert Schreiner (geologist)

Albert Schreiner (born October 20, 1923 in Tübingen , † March 15, 2016 in Gundelfingen-Wildtal ) was a German geologist.

Schreiner grew up in Tübingen, graduated from high school there in 1941 and then served in the navy and in English captivity. From 1947 he studied geology in Tübingen and one year in Göttingen. In 1950 he passed his state examination and received his doctorate from Georg Wagner in Tübingen (The Origin of the Wurzach Basin ). Then he mapped on behalf of the French occupation at the branch of the Geological State Office in Tübingen and under the direction of Georg Wagner in Upper Swabia and dealt with usable deposits in Baden-Württemberg (deposit map) and advised companies. In 1952 he switched to school service, but returned in 1954 to take part in the geological monitoring of the long-distance water pipeline from Lake Constance to Stuttgart. In 1955 he became an employee of the Geological State Office in Freiburg im Breisgau and was responsible for the Lake Constance area and Hegau. He advised there as a geologist and mapped. In 1975 he became head of the Department of Geological Surveying and Deposits, in 1979 he became chief government director and later chief geology director. In 1984 he became an honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart. There and in Freiburg he taught Quaternary geology . In 1988 he retired, but was still scientifically active.

He particularly examined the geology of the western Lake Constance area (Pleistocene of the Rhine Glacier), about which he published a geological guide. At times he headed the DFG research project Interglacial in the Rhine Glacier Area , for which numerous boreholes were drilled. He and his colleagues made 20 geological maps 1: 25,000 from the Bodensee-Hegau area (e.g. Bad Wurznach, Hinterzarten, Todtnau). He was also an employee of the geological maps Freiburg and the surrounding area (1977, 3rd edition 1997), Konstanz (1991), the overview map of Germany and Baden-Württemberg 1: 500,000 (1989, 2nd edition 1998). With Wolfgang Hahn he worked out a new stratigraphic structure of the Jura of Baden-Württemberg in 1971, but this was given up in favor of the international stratigraphic commission. In 1981 he introduced the Haslach Ice Age between the Mindel and Günz Ice Age . In 1982 and 1989 he worked out a new stratigraphic structure of the Riss Ice Age .

In 1983 he became an honorary member of the Upper Rhine Geological Association .

Fonts

• Hegau and western Lake Constance. (= Collection of Geological Guides . 62). 3rd, corrected edition. Borntraeger, 2008, ISBN 978-3-443-15083-9 .
• Introduction to Quaternary Geology. 2nd Edition. Schweitzerbart, 1992, ISBN 3-510-65152-9 .

literature

• Eckhard Villinger: Albert Schreiner on his 90th birthday. Upper Rhine Geological Association 2013. (pdf)
• Rainer Groschopf, Andreas Etzold: Albert Schreiner. 1923-2016. In: Annual books of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg. Volume 172, Stuttgart 2016, ISSN  0368-2307 , pp. 311-317.