Bernhard Beschoren

Bernhard Beschoren (born December 6, 1898 in Altlüdersdorf (today: Gransee OT Altlüdersdorf), † April 24, 1982 in Werneck ) was a German geologist .

Life

Bernhard Beschoren was the son of a pastor and attended high schools in Potsdam and Berlin-Wilmersdorf with the Abitur in 1916. After military service in World War I, he studied geology and natural sciences in Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1926 under Josef Felix Pompeckj ( cenoman and Turon of the chalk hollow of Sack near Alfeld ). From 1927 to 1938 he was at the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA), where he became a district geologist . Then he went to the American Petroleum Company in Denmark. In the Second World War he was a military geologist from 1940 (Poland, the Channel Islands Guernsey and Alderney , Netherlands) and was in English captivity from 1944. From 1946 he was at the Bavarian Geological State Office , where he retired in 1954 as a regional geologist .

He dealt with chalk in Lower Saxony, Westphalia and the Channel Islands, with Quaternary geology in Northern Germany, potash salt in the Werra region and petroleum geology, most recently with the tertiary of the Bavarian Molasse basin .

Memberships

• 1921 German Geological Society
• 1927–1938 Prussian State Geological Institute

Cartographic publications

He made the geological map 1: 100,000 of Schweinfurt and 1: 25,000 of Stargard Castle in Mecklenburg (with Kurd von Bülow ), Groß Ilsede (with Paul Woldstedt ), Kalzig (with B. Dammer, HL Heck, Julius Hesemann , K. You) and Züllichau as well as some recordings that were not published during the war due to the war (e.g. Großburgwedel near Hanover).

Fonts

• Cenomaniac and Turon of the chalk hollow of Sack near Alfeld. In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, Treatises, Supplement Volume 55, Part 2, 1926, pp. 87-132
• Cenomaniac and Turon in the area of ​​Unna and Werl in Westphalia. In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Palaeontology, Treatises, Supplement-Volume 58, 1927, pp. 1-49
• The origin of the Havelsander. In: PGLA session reports, no. 5, 1930, p. 197
• About indigenous Diluvium in the area of ​​Burgdorf in Hanover. In: Jb. PGLA Vol. 52 for 1931, Berlin 1932, pp. 79-85
• About Warwentone in the northern Mark Brandenburg. In: PGLA session reports, no. 7, 1932, pp. 152-153
• with A. Hoffmann, A. Neuhaus, C. Hahne, E. Kohl, F. Bessert, Walther E. Petrascheck , F. Birkner, Fritz Dahlgrün , Fritz Deubel : Geological-petrographic investigations of the potash stores in the Werra area. Archive for reservoir research. Issue 57, 1933
• Collection and publication of a bibliography of petroleum geology in Germany . Oil and coal, H. 1, 1933
• The petroleum geological literature of Germany until 1933 . Archive for deposit research, issue 60, 1934
• About alluvial neoplasms in historical times in the area of ​​the Elbe and Oder. In: Jb. PGLA, Vol. 54 for 1933, session reports, No. 9, 1934, p. 9 and Volume 55 for 1934, 1935, pp. 292-304
• Across young diluvial reservoirs between the Havel and Oder. In: PGLA yearbook, vol. 55 for 1934, 1935, pp. 395-428
• On the history of the Havelland and the Havel during the Alluvium. In: Jb. PGLA, Vol. 55 for 1934, 1935, pp. 305-311
• with W. Selle: The becoming of the Eddesser Moor. In: 21. Jber. Ver. Natural Braunschweig, Volume 23, 1935, pp. 59-79
• About the Alluvium in the Leinetal near Neustadt a. Rbg. and in the Allertal near Celle. In: PGLA Yearbook, Vol. 56 for 1935, 1936, pp. 196-204
• Across an Os landscape in the Grenzmark east of Schwerin a. W .. In: PGLA yearbook, vol. 57 for 1936, session reports, 5, p. 9, 1937
• with G. Abele, Richard Dehm , R., L. Erb, Bruno Fuchs, O. Ganss, H. Kiderlein, H. Nathan, F. Neumaier, Paul Schmidt-Thomé , W. Stephan: Explanations of the geological overview map of the South German Molasse 1: 300 000 , Munich 1955
• Explanations for the geological map of Bavaria 1: 100,000, sheet no. 510 Schweinfurt. 95 p., 2 plates, Bavarian Geological State Office, Munich 1955

literature

• NS Robins, EPF Rose: Hydrogeological investigation in the Channel Islands: the important role of German military geologists during World War II, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, November 2005, Volume 38, No. 4, pp. 351-362
• EPF Rose: Work by German Military Geologists on the British Channel Islands During the Second World War. Part 2: Bernhard Beschoren, Dieter Hoenes, and the Role of Wehrgeologenstelle 4 on Guernsey and Alderney, Channel Islands Occupation Review, Volume 35, 2007, 93–114

Web links

• Biography at the PGLA